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1. The PD in question couldn't confirm that Musk even filed a report about this incident (but that they were reaching out to Musk) according to a journalist who
by noirscape 4y ago
1. The PD in question couldn't confirm that Musk even filed a report about this incident (but that they were reaching out to Musk) according to a journalist who send an inquiry. We have no proof that this happened to begin with beyond claims by Musk and a blurry picture of a car. Musk banned the journalist who send the inquiry to the PD from Twitter. I would note that the journalist did not mention ElonJet in any form, just that there was no verifiable proof that it had happened.
2. Said picture of a car was location-traced by someone involved with Bellingcat to be extremely far away from any nearby airports; Musk suggests that someone was tailgating the car in question from the airport if I recall, but this would be absurd and not really possible given the distance. If the incident happened to begin with, it was most likely unrelated to ElonJet. He's blatantly using an incident with his child to ban an account he personally doesn't like.
To be clear, it's his full right to do this, but there's some irony in how the guy bloviating about free speech absolutism for weeks on end changes tune to "only the speech I like" the second he finds an excuse to do so.
Also going after journalists reporting on this is pathetic, not to mention shows a blatant disregard for freedom of the press, and as history has shown us time and time again, getting a journalist to shut up tends to just make them more vocal because of the Streisand Effect. More people than ever know about ElonJet than before he banned it and his repeated attempts to prevent people from linking to Mastodon.social and other big Mastodon instances because that's where the ElonJet guy went have only caused more reporting on it.
- throwntoday 4y ago> We have no proof that this happened to begin with beyond claims by Musk and a blurry picture of a car He posted a video of the guy, his car, and his license plate
- samb1729 4y agoBut no video of the incident actually taking place. Quite surprising that Elon apparently is not aware of the dozen or so cameras on a car made by the company he owns!