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Seeing as though this is what has caused Musk to go even further off the deep end, banning journalists, causing more people to leave Twitter, and getting more u

by _djo_ 4y ago

Seeing as though this is what has caused Musk to go even further off the deep end, banning journalists, causing more people to leave Twitter, and getting more unwelcome attention from regulators, I'd say it's directly related to him needing to spend even more time on Twitter and away from Tesla and SpaceX. He could have opted to be more hands off, appointing a competent manager to run the place while he focused elsewhere. But he's chosen the opposite.

PM_me_your_math 4y ago
- jcranmer 4y ago
  > And remember, these are rules they agreed to. IIRC, the rules were changed the day the account was banned, which means that the people who were banned never actually agreed to them, merely to a standard rules agreement that has a clause "we can change our rules at any moment and you can do jack-shit about that."
- cmatthias 4y ago
  Got a citation for those claims? As far as I’m aware, journalists were only referencing ElonJet, which, as OP established, is only re-publishing already public information. Despite this, even if you want to somehow argue that it’s against the rules, I reject that claim as well. Twitter’s policies[1] explicitly allow “location information related to commercial property or places of business, where this information is publicly available,” and all of “Elon’s” jets are owned by commercial entities. Edit: citations showing “his” jets are owned by an LLC: https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N628TS https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N628TS https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N272BG https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N272BG https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N502SX https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N502SX [1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-information https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...

by _djo_ 4y ago

PM_me_your_math 4y ago

jcranmer 4y ago
> And remember, these are rules they agreed to. IIRC, the rules were changed the day the account was banned, which means that the people who were banned never actually agreed to them, merely to a standard rules agreement that has a clause "we can change our rules at any moment and you can do jack-shit about that."
cmatthias 4y ago
Got a citation for those claims? As far as I’m aware, journalists were only referencing ElonJet, which, as OP established, is only re-publishing already public information. Despite this, even if you want to somehow argue that it’s against the rules, I reject that claim as well. Twitter’s policies[1] explicitly allow “location information related to commercial property or places of business, where this information is publicly available,” and all of “Elon’s” jets are owned by commercial entities. Edit: citations showing “his” jets are owned by an LLC: https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N628TS https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N628TS https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N272BG https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N272BG https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N502SX https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N502SX [1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-information https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...