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The ElonJet account has also been unbanned: https://twitter.com/ElonJet https://twitter.com/ElonJet When I said last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

The ElonJet account has also been unbanned: https://twitter.com/ElonJet https://twitter.com/ElonJet When I said last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33988883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33988883) I was awaiting to see what moderation rationale Elon would use I was not expecting "making up new rules" and banning ex post facto. But unbanning the account without an apology is somehow weirder.

someNameIG 4y ago
> ElonJet account has also been unbanned: https://twitter.com/ElonJet https://twitter.com/ElonJet Banned again
- dnissley 4y ago
  ZuccJet too: https://twitter.com/zuccjet https://twitter.com/zuccjet
- AnthonyMouse 4y ago
  But now presumably for violating the new policy, and so not ex post facto.
winternett 4y ago
Twitter was started as a democratic, real time, and completely free resource. It now no longer is any of those things. While I do think it's unethical to publicly post anyone's whereabouts online for everyone to see, I think that it is equally just as bad to buy a resource like the one mentioned above and then turn it into your own money making bulletin board... He should have just developed a totally new fork of Twitter under a different name perhaps. Twitter is dead... Has been for a long time now... At least everyone still has the ability to abandon it and move on to creating more useful places.
- tasuki 4y ago
  > turn it into your own money making bulletin board Huh? Are we in different universes?
  - winternett 4y ago
    Elon has turned Twitter into his own personal bulletin board... His posts are obviously intended to resonate across the entire platform now, even for people that block him.
    - tasuki 4y ago
      Sure. It's not "money making" by any stretch though. It's a very expensive hobby.
wmil 4y ago
> I was not expecting "making up new rules" and banning ex post facto. That's been standard practice at Twitter for a few years now.

someNameIG 4y ago

> ElonJet account has also been unbanned: https://twitter.com/ElonJet https://twitter.com/ElonJet Banned again

dnissley 4y ago
ZuccJet too: https://twitter.com/zuccjet https://twitter.com/zuccjet
AnthonyMouse 4y ago
But now presumably for violating the new policy, and so not ex post facto.

winternett 4y ago

Twitter was started as a democratic, real time, and completely free resource. It now no longer is any of those things. While I do think it's unethical to publicly post anyone's whereabouts online for everyone to see, I think that it is equally just as bad to buy a resource like the one mentioned above and then turn it into your own money making bulletin board... He should have just developed a totally new fork of Twitter under a different name perhaps. Twitter is dead... Has been for a long time now... At least everyone still has the ability to abandon it and move on to creating more useful places.

tasuki 4y ago
> turn it into your own money making bulletin board Huh? Are we in different universes?
- winternett 4y ago
  Elon has turned Twitter into his own personal bulletin board... His posts are obviously intended to resonate across the entire platform now, even for people that block him.
  - tasuki 4y ago
    Sure. It's not "money making" by any stretch though. It's a very expensive hobby.

wmil 4y ago

> I was not expecting "making up new rules" and banning ex post facto. That's been standard practice at Twitter for a few years now.