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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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Apparently some of the journalists that had been banned bans have had their bans lifted, hopefully they will have learnt their lesson.
 
Early this morning Musk tweeted: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci”

To which Marjorie Taylor Greene replied “I affirm your pronouns Elon.”

This saddens me. What the hell happens to people?

I own a Telsa and applaud what he’s managed in the EV sphere, but Lord I hope Tesla can disassociate itself from him post haste.

What a childish thing to say.

Fauci responds to Musk’s Twitter attack and rates world’s COVID response (Nature)

On Sunday, entrepreneur Elon Musk called for your prosecution, claiming that you lied to Congress and funded research that killed millions of people. How do you respond to the tweets?
I don’t pay attention to that, Max, and I don’t feel I need to respond. I don’t tweet. I don’t have a Twitter account. A lot of that stuff is just a cesspool of misinformation, and I don’t waste a minute worrying about it.

Do you feel that your safety is at risk, given Musk’s enormous reach on Twitter?
Of course it’s at risk. That’s why I have armed federal agents with me all the time. That stirs up a lot of hate in people who have no idea why they’re hating — they’re hating because somebody like that is tweeting about it.

Musk is upset that someone is tracking the movements of his private jet, saying it puts his family at risk. But he doesn't seem to care about putting others at risk by spreading lies about them.
Elon Musk taking legal action over Twitter account that tracks his private jet
Elon Musk says he is taking legal action against the holder of a Twitter account that tracks his private jet, arguing it put his son at risk.

The @ElonJet account, which has more than half a million followers, was suspended on Wednesday.

Its owner Jack Sweeney, 20, used publicly available flight-tracking information to tweet every time Mr Musk's jet took off and landed.

Mr Musk says legal action is now being taken against Mr Sweeney and others.

"Last night, car carrying [his son] lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving and climbed onto hood," he tweeted.

He added that any account revealing people's real-time locations will be suspended "as it is a physical safety violation".

He can ban it from Twitter, but there is now a similar thing on Reddit:
Reddit now has a subreddit entirely dedicated to tracking Elon Musk’s jet
 
To me Musk is more like a Tump - it isn't anything to do with politics or any underlying ideology - it's all personal.

ah, but just as with Trump, everything that's good for them, personally, must be good for every right-thinking person.
 
We have reached the peak of Mt. Stupid.

Twitter Support said:
We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.

Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

We still allow cross-posting content from any social media platform. Posting links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are also not in violation of this policy.

You can now get banned for mentioning your instagram handle. Not even the link. Just mentioning it.
 
We have reached the peak of Mt. Stupid.



You can now get banned for mentioning your instagram handle. Not even the link. Just mentioning it.
In one sense I am not surprised. Why would you allow people to post links to your competitors?

On the other hand, I think it means a lot of people will now leave Twitter because they can no longer promote their other social media sites on it. These people are probably the ones with the most followers. On balance, I think this is another footman moment.
 
In one sense I am not surprised. Why would you allow people to post links to your competitors?

On the other hand, I think it means a lot of people will now leave Twitter because they can no longer promote their other social media sites on it. These people are probably the ones with the most followers. On balance, I think this is another footman moment.

It would be like if a new coffee shop opened nearby and the only thing you knew about it was that they charged 10 cents for each sugar packet you wanted. You wouldn't need to know anything else. Even if you don't like sugar in your coffee, it's a deal breaking vibe.

I doubt this policy will still be up by Christmas. Mercy to the Twitter support staff if they add Twitch to the list.
 
In one sense I am not surprised. Why would you allow people to post links to your competitors?

On the other hand, I think it means a lot of people will now leave Twitter because they can no longer promote their other social media sites on it. These people are probably the ones with the most followers. On balance, I think this is another footman moment.

Absolute free speech!!!
 
I get a loading error when trying to look at the specific webpage but some people have taken screenshots. Looks like even at the tweet level you cannot post your username on other sites even if you don’t use your URL.

Apparently “cloaking” by using words like “dot” in plain text also violates the rule.

Musk is going to make his remaining staff work pretty hard on the mass purge that will now take place.
 

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In one sense I am not surprised. Why would you allow people to post links to your competitors?

On the other hand, I think it means a lot of people will now leave Twitter because they can no longer promote their other social media sites on it. These people are probably the ones with the most followers. On balance, I think this is another footman moment.

l think the biggest reason to do it is not to look desperate
it makes you look like your myspace in a Facebook world
 
In one sense I am not surprised. Why would you allow people to post links to your competitors?

That's specious, though. Twitter is not the only for-profit social media platform but to date it is the only one that has suddenly found it necessary to blanket-prohibit general mentions of other social media sites in this manner. Clearly the balance of internet social media companies do not consider the situation to be a "competitor" dynamic in the traditional sense.
 
I get a loading error when trying to look at the specific webpage but some people have taken screenshots. Looks like even at the tweet level you cannot post your username on other sites even if you don’t use your URL.

I wonder how long my atheist group account will be allowed to link out to other social media sites:
https://twitter.com/AtheistOK



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I wonder how long my atheist group account will be allowed to link out to other social media sites:
https://twitter.com/AtheistOK

As of this moment, your profile info violates the policy, as it links to a facebook page. Don't worry, I won't snitch on you.

The new policy also prohibits "3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio." In a certain sense, the homepage for your group could also be considered a "link aggregator," as it contains your social media links.

Where it gets weird is that some livestreaming platforms, such as Twitch and Youtube are incorporating bits of social media features in them. Would Twitter dare to ban people for tweeting "I'm about to go live on..."? If they get that strict with it, they're officially done.
 
Links to Mastodon and Mastodon profiles are hotlinks, but instead, they give you this warning.

Warning: this link may be unsafe
http://Mastodon.social

The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with Twitter’s URL Policy. This link could fall into any of the below categories:

malicious links that could steal personal information or harm electronic devices
spammy links that mislead people or disrupt their experience
violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm
certain categories of content that, if posted directly on Twitter, are a violation of the Twitter
 
Well, I am signing up for Post and will see if the link I added to Twitter will get my real name account taken down. Definitely no loss if it does.
 
I reported that for doxxing Elon Musk, he takes those things very seriously.:D

Not sure I get this doxxing thing. This seems to be a common definition:

“Doxxing (also spelled doxing) is the act of revealing someone's personal information online. Doxxing is a form of online harassment that means publicly exposing someone's real name, address, job, or other identifying data.”

How exactly does this apply to a public figure? If a reporter reports “We have on good information that Kamala Harris is headed to the Souther Border Thursday, possibly with a stop a El Paso to visit a refugee center there.” Is that doxxing? Once you know Elon’s plane’s N number*, it’s trivially easy to track it on a program such as FlightAware. All the banned fellow did was aggregate readily available public information. That doesn’t seem like “doxxing” to me.


*Readily available info: https://www.superyachtfan.com/private-jet/owner/elon-musk/
 
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That's specious, though. Twitter is not the only for-profit social media platform but to date it is the only one that has suddenly found it necessary to blanket-prohibit general mentions of other social media sites in this manner. Clearly the balance of internet social media companies do not consider the situation to be a "competitor" dynamic in the traditional sense.
I agree it is misguided. Most of the sites listed in the ban are not direct competitors and I suspect that, for many of Twitter’s most active users, this rule decreases Twitter’s utility for them which means they’ll leave and advertising on Twitter becomes less attractive.
 
I stand corrected. FlightAware returns this: “This aircraft (N628TS) is not available for live public tracking due to European government data rules.”

Weird, because the prefix “N” means it’s US registered.

But I must assume there are ways around this.
 
I stand corrected. FlightAware returns this: “This aircraft (N628TS) is not available for live public tracking due to European government data rules.”

Weird, because the prefix “N” means it’s US registered.

But I must assume there are ways around this.

The aircraft is in the European region now or recently has been, since Musk attended the World Cup final (with Jared Kushner, of all people). Once the aircraft returns to the US, perhaps that restriction will no longer apply.
 
I stand corrected. FlightAware returns this: “This aircraft (N628TS) is not available for live public tracking due to European government data rules.”

Weird, because the prefix “N” means it’s US registered.

But I must assume there are ways around this.
You could probably access it using a VPN into the USA.

It’s interesting because it follows that ElonJet was breaking European data rules.
 
Not sure I get this doxxing thing. This seems to be a common definition:

“Doxxing (also spelled doxing) is the act of revealing someone's personal information online. Doxxing is a form of online harassment that means publicly exposing someone's real name, address, job, or other identifying data.”

How exactly does this apply to a public figure? If a reporter reports “We have on good information that Kamala Harris is headed to the Souther Border Thursday, possibly with a stop a El Paso to visit a refugee center there.” Is that doxxing? Once you know Elon’s plane’s N number*, it’s trivially easy to track it on a program such as FlightAware. All the banned fellow did was aggregate readily available public information. That doesn’t seem like “doxxing” to me.


*Readily available info: https://www.superyachtfan.com/private-jet/owner/elon-musk/

To poke at a really short version of what's going on - Elon's being mocked specifically because his attempted redefinition is totally unreasonable and has far reaching consequences... if it were actually upheld as the principle he tried to pretend that it was. He, himself, is immediately violating his attempted redefinition, though, to probably no one's surprise.

That the thing about right wing rules, though. It just keeps boiling down to rules to protect the ingroup, but not bind them, and rules to bind the outgroup, but not protect them. Alternately said, "We can do anything we want on whatever pretext and you can only do what we allow you to do."
 
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My lunacy tank is full so I can't handle anymore of this thread right now.

I saw an opinion article on CNN or CBS that talked about the need for a non-profit social media platform. Is that possible/feasible? I didn't read much about it and haven't put any thought into it. I only use Youtube so I kinda don't care too much about it.

I'd kinda like to see "Eww The Toilet" and Trump work together on something just for the laughs, but I'd rather see them both just somehow disappear. What if they both disappeared from this moment on? Nobody ever heard from them again?

Rod S: "Wait let me get my pencil"
 
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That doesn't say much .. he can just appoint new CEO, who will do what Elon wants anyway. Which would be IMHO the right thing to do from the beginning anyway.
Or he can turn off the Twitter completely.
 
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