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Here is the guy in question - a non-anonymous person publicly posting child porn to Twitter who then got suspended. Then Elon Musk took a personal interest in t
by smcl 3y ago
Here is the guy in question - a non-anonymous person publicly posting child porn to Twitter who then got suspended. Then Elon Musk took a personal interest in the situation, removed the tweet and restored the account.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter-csam-dom-lucre-elon-musk/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter...
I guess we will see if there’s any further action against the guy who tweeted it. But we are in a pretty bizarre situation now where accounts like @elonjet (the account that tweeted when his jet took off and landed anywhere) and Chad Loder (journalist covering the far right) are suspended and someone posting child porn gets a pass.
Again, it’s entirely up to Elon what he does with Twitter/X as he owns it. It’s just really fucking weird what he thinks is OK to have there and what he disagrees with.
I am curious what happens to this “Dom Lucre” - he’s not unknown even if I personally don’t know his real name - and no matter his intent he seems to have broken a couple of really serious laws.
@dang can we get my original comment unflagged? It’s a bit odd to have my comment (which is reasonable and accurate) hidden but this reply (which is uninformed and incorrect) to be visible.
- smcl 3y agoEh fine if the original reply is not getting reinstated I'll repost it: -------- It’s fine in the sense that Musk owns Twitter/X and can do whatever he likes with it. It’s a bit stupid in my opinion (I don’t know if they really gain much by having @music vs @twittermusic) but there have been plenty more stupid things going on over there and the former owner is apparently a fan of Elon so it’s not really worth losing any sleep over. The right-wing guy recently posting child porn and getting personally reinstated by Elon, for example, was another one of those “he owns it and can do what he likes” issues … but one that’s far more troubling.