Elon Musk $44 Billion Twitter deal

Originally Posted by Damien

Well, he is deciding the rules based on how it personally impacts him. Same as banning the account that originally posted the video of him being booed. The guy is moderating Twitter based on his fragile ego.

My point is that Elon Musk isn't any better than the other silicon valley tech bros that have taken over the industry in the last decade or so. Twitter, Uber, Facebook are all horrible companies for different reasons and then you have others than are outright crooks like Theranos and FTX.

Telsa I was quite excited by so it's a shame their leader is a bellend as well. I just have no idea why people celebrate these idiots and pick sides between one set of crappy Twitter owners and the new crappy Twitter owner.

New York Post is running with the story that Elon is retaliating against the kid, for posting a leaked Slack message he got from a Twitter employee…

https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/jet-tr...awsuit-threat/

Elon Musk has now suspended several tech reporters from the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post.

Probably is worth creating Mastodon accounts and migrating what you can. He does seem to be going ever more nuts with each passing day.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Mick

New York Post is running with the story that Elon is retaliating against the kid, for posting a leaked Slack message he got from a Twitter employee…

https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/jet-tr...awsuit-threat/

I also noted from that article that the LA Police has no record of that incident with his son.

Originally Posted by Damien

Probably is worth creating Mastodon accounts and migrating what you can. He does seem to be going ever more nuts with each passing day.

I think he's a megalomaniac.He doesn't like his decisions being questioned.He thinks he's right no matter what and therefore won't enter into any discussion about his decisions.

Originally Posted by Damien

Probably is worth creating Mastodon accounts and migrating what you can. He does seem to be going ever more nuts with each passing day.

Oh wonderful idea, an echo chamber of lefties, no thank you. Who whinge on there, from dusk til dawn, about every little tiny thing that’s offended them.

Each of the reporters that have been banned were said to have posted plane data of Musk, so in other words, they were trolling him. Serves them right.

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Originally Posted by Maggy

I think he's a megalomaniac.He doesn't like his decisions being questioned.He thinks he's right no matter what and therefore won't enter into any discussion about his decisions.

Unbelievable, see my post above,

These Journalists are not real reporters, they are left wing shills in cohorts with the pathetic Democrat party.

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Elon Musk said in a Twitter Space last night….

“There is not going to be any distinction in the future between journalists and regular people, everyone is going to be treated the same […] You’re not special because you’re a journalist, you’re just a citizen. So no special treatment: You dox, you get suspended, end of story.”

That would be the Twitter Space he left when he was being questioned, then shut it down?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...ed-journalists

Originally Posted by Hugh

That would be the Twitter Space he left when he was being questioned, then shut it down?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...ed-journalists

He can do what he likes. Stop whinging.

Other stuff he said, via tweets.

I’ve obtained video of him joining the Twitter space chat with journalists etc, that Hugh’s on about, he didn’t kill the space at all. They all carried on when he left.

https://twitter.com/ForeverEversley/...12770892918784

I don’t think he’s being unreasonable, being a journalist doesn’t grant you immunity to doxxing someone, especially if you’re trolling someone with their real-time location and that someone just happens to be the owner of Twitter.

But they didn’t - they posted links in their stories to show the freely available info from the FAA website & Flightradar24 of where his plane was, not him.

Musk then posted pictures of someone he accused of following his car, and pictures of the cars number plate, and asked his followers to ID the person - that’s doxxing too. If that guy did what he’s accused of, it should have been reported to the Police.

Regarding the Twitter Space meeting, it continued briefly after he left, then it was shut down.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-m...over-elon-musk

Notopoulos then began asking Musk another question, but was met by crickets. “Oh. I think Elon has left,” she remarked.

As a discussion ensued between the journalists after Musk’s departure, the stream suddenly disappeared. “Sorry it appears the Space cut out, screen went suddenly blank on my end and everyone got booted,” Notopoulos wrote. The recording was also unavailable.

Originally Posted by Mick

Oh wonderful idea, an echo chamber of lefties, no thank you. Who whinge on there, from dusk til dawn, about every little tiny thing that’s offended them.

It's not that dramatic. I just am starting an account there in case a bunch of people migrate there.

Each of the reporters that have been banned were said to have posted plane data of Musk, so in other words, they were trolling him. Serves them right.

No, a lot of them just reported and used the tag of the then-deleted elon plane account. They did not post the location of the plane.

And also for a free speech advocate 'trolling him' is a pathetic reason to ban them.

These Journalists are not real reporters, they are left wing shills in cohorts with the pathetic Democrat party

Ok fine, ban them because they're left-wing reporters. But then let's stop this free speech nonsense or the outrage that the New York Post people got suspended.

The last few years have had so much drama about Twitter being a town square or whatever it was, people calling for congress to look into moderation decisions, that such a powerful social network shouldn't be moderated at the whims of Twitter's owners and then as soon as Elon Musk bans users those same people defend it. Such phoney outrage. It was never about free speech concerns, it was always just yet another chapter for very online people to bash each other within the neverending culture war. Who cares that Twitter banned some idiot before and who cares who Musk bans now.

[jfman]

Everyone knows there’s only one left leaning snake pit worth reading on t’internet.

Originally Posted by Hugh

But they didn’t - they posted links in their stories to show the freely available info from the FAA website & Flightradar24 of where his plane was, not him.

Musk then posted pictures of someone he accused of following his car, and pictures of the cars number plate, and asked his followers to ID the person - that’s doxxing too. If that guy did what he’s accused of, it should have been reported to the Police.

Regarding the Twitter Space meeting, it continued briefly after he left, then it was shut down.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-m...over-elon-musk

Still whinging I see,

I did not see any of your condemnation when conservatives were being banned, left, right and centre, for nothing. Not nice is it?

Elon said in that space, that circumventing a ban on public information, to his whereabouts, & posting a link to said information, is still circumventing his rule on doxxing, he doesn’t want that information on Twitter, very reasonable request, it’s like here, if I was to ban any specific site from being posted, someone posted a tinyurl to the banned site, to hide the fact you’re circumventing my ruling and I would react accordingly.

Elon said one of the journalists posted a link to his address, that is not ok.

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Originally Posted by Damien

It's not that dramatic. I just am starting an account there in case a bunch of people migrate there.



No, a lot of them just reported and used the tag of the then-deleted elon plane account. They did not post the location of the plane.

And also for a free speech advocate 'trolling him' is a pathetic reason to ban them.





Ok fine, ban them because they're left-wing reporters. But then let's stop this free speech nonsense or the outrage that the New York Post people got suspended.

The last few years have had so much drama about Twitter being a town square or whatever it was, people calling for congress to look into moderation decisions, that such a powerful social network shouldn't be moderated at the whims of Twitter's owners and then as soon as Elon Musk bans users those same people defend it. Such phoney outrage. It was never about free speech concerns, it was always just yet another chapter for very online people to bash each other within the neverending culture war. Who cares that Twitter banned some idiot before and who cares who Musk bans now.

Free speech doesn’t give the right to post personal and private details of individuals.

Originally Posted by Mick

Free speech doesn’t give the right to post personal and private details of individuals.

Is that why he suspended the account of the person who posted the video of Musk at the gig being booed? Because it revealed Musk was there?

I like the fact they're disrupting general links to Mastodon as well, pretty petty.