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Naturally, I am not a lawyer, I am a dog on the internet. But some things have the smell of having been critically analysed by lawyers, and this just... doesn't

Naturally, I am not a lawyer, I am a dog on the internet. But some things have the smell of having been critically analysed by lawyers, and this just... doesn't somehow. It seems if I post a photo of a sports event that makes the stadium location obvious, that would now fall foul of this policy? Likewise a concert, or a politician at a publicly recognisable residence Purely personally, one of my most memorable times on twitter was the tens of thousands of people watching a British politician fly home on a long haul flight to get fired - quite sad that we won't get to experience the sheer bizarre feeling of that again https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/more-than-20-000-people-track-priti-patel-s-flight-back-to-london-as-she-faces-cabinet-axe-a3685576.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/more-than-20-000-pe...

nickthegreek 4y ago
It’s almost like this whole rule was made up after the fact with little to no effort put into how it would be enforced when the sun rises the next day… But I think that’s just the new reality. Moving forward, Twitter is whatever Elon says it is whenever he says it is.
- ratg13 4y ago
  “Apply heavy visibility filtering” “Shit, someone decided to fully suspend the account and everyone noticed.. people are upset too” “Let’s unban him really quick while we figure this out” Only a couple of hours pass and they re-ban the account and suddenly have a new policy. This is basically the plot of the Ukraine invasion. Pivot, move, take plan C that was made up hastily, and always pretend like it was your goal.
- nradov 4y ago
  The new reality is the same as the old reality. Twitter executives have been arbitrarily banning content based on their own whims and political biases for years, regardless of the written terms of service. It's just that there's a different executive in charge now with a different set of made-up rules. I'm baffled as to why anyone would care. The whole thing has long been a joke, nothing more than a platform for trolling.
tempsy 4y ago
The only point of this update was to give permission to Elon to suspend the jet tracking account.
- jonny_eh 4y ago
  Couldn't @elonjet delay their posts by 24 hours to comply? Update: yep, https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1603168950489350144 https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1603168950489350144
  - metadat 4y ago
    And now they can still post live data to mastodon. I hope they will.
  - TigeriusKirk 4y ago
    The account is back, and this seems to be the condition required.
    - hoc 4y ago
      So could they just post a link to their website everytime the jet's moving without including the coordinates in the twitter post?
    - UncleMeat 4y ago
      It's been banned again.
  - bink 4y ago
    They could do lots of things to comply with the new and arbitrary terms. But why? This is public info that's on many different sites and literally broadcast to anyone with a radio.
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TigeriusKirk 4y ago
As I read it, any "live" post of any person in any public place without their permission falls afoul of the rule. So a simple photo of a busy public street would be banned.
bko 4y ago
Twitter banned posting images of people against their will in December of last year. This sounds like a natural extension of that. There are caveats you can read about like incidental people in a crowd and I'm sure those caveats apply as well https://theconversation.com/twitter-has-banned-posting-of-images-of-people-without-their-consent-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing-173122 https://theconversation.com/twitter-has-banned-posting-of-im...
polygamous_bat 4y ago
As I said on another thread, man, I wouldn't want to be in the team of lawyers charged with writing this rule. "You have 24 hours. You have to write some rules that make my private jet's flights that are public information available on a public website in real time disallowed, while also making Hunter Biden's hacked nudes allowed. Go."

nickthegreek 4y ago

It’s almost like this whole rule was made up after the fact with little to no effort put into how it would be enforced when the sun rises the next day… But I think that’s just the new reality. Moving forward, Twitter is whatever Elon says it is whenever he says it is.

ratg13 4y ago
“Apply heavy visibility filtering” “Shit, someone decided to fully suspend the account and everyone noticed.. people are upset too” “Let’s unban him really quick while we figure this out” Only a couple of hours pass and they re-ban the account and suddenly have a new policy. This is basically the plot of the Ukraine invasion. Pivot, move, take plan C that was made up hastily, and always pretend like it was your goal.
nradov 4y ago
The new reality is the same as the old reality. Twitter executives have been arbitrarily banning content based on their own whims and political biases for years, regardless of the written terms of service. It's just that there's a different executive in charge now with a different set of made-up rules. I'm baffled as to why anyone would care. The whole thing has long been a joke, nothing more than a platform for trolling.

tempsy 4y ago

The only point of this update was to give permission to Elon to suspend the jet tracking account.

jonny_eh 4y ago
Couldn't @elonjet delay their posts by 24 hours to comply? Update: yep, https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1603168950489350144 https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1603168950489350144
- metadat 4y ago
  And now they can still post live data to mastodon. I hope they will.
- TigeriusKirk 4y ago
  The account is back, and this seems to be the condition required.
  - hoc 4y ago
    So could they just post a link to their website everytime the jet's moving without including the coordinates in the twitter post?
  - UncleMeat 4y ago
    It's been banned again.
- bink 4y ago
  They could do lots of things to comply with the new and arbitrary terms. But why? This is public info that's on many different sites and literally broadcast to anyone with a radio.
- deleted 4y ago
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TigeriusKirk 4y ago

As I read it, any "live" post of any person in any public place without their permission falls afoul of the rule. So a simple photo of a busy public street would be banned.

bko 4y ago

Twitter banned posting images of people against their will in December of last year. This sounds like a natural extension of that. There are caveats you can read about like incidental people in a crowd and I'm sure those caveats apply as well https://theconversation.com/twitter-has-banned-posting-of-images-of-people-without-their-consent-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing-173122 https://theconversation.com/twitter-has-banned-posting-of-im...

polygamous_bat 4y ago

As I said on another thread, man, I wouldn't want to be in the team of lawyers charged with writing this rule. "You have 24 hours. You have to write some rules that make my private jet's flights that are public information available on a public website in real time disallowed, while also making Hunter Biden's hacked nudes allowed. Go."