Unpopular take: I actually agree with EM about the stupid jet. Archival information is one thing, but real time is essentially the same risk-public benefit calculus as doxxing, and just as creepy. We should lean into this instead and encourage him to extend his privacy concerns to more vulnerable individuals.
#twitter #elonjet #responsibility #safety
@AmberWavesofFlame The thing is that he came in saying that anything that wasn't illegal would be allowed, because Freedom of Speech. Then when it impacted HIM he went back on that, without a hint of acknowledging that his initial promise was actually a bad idea and he was wrong.
(Also that information is still / already public. If we wants to do something about that, he has to talk to the FAA and Congress, not just ban some guy from Twitter.)
@AmberWavesofFlame Also he banned ALL the accounts of the guy that was posting the information, not just the one that was posting it. Which is hard to account for.
elon has had a personal vendetta against him for a while now
Completely agree with @ceoln on this.
The issue isn't with the policy but rather how Elon went about it.
The story goes back to much earlier this year:
https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker
Elon changed the rules when he decided it was in his best interest, not putting thought and time into what the best policy should be.
And if he's making these decisions using Twitter very specifically for his personal interests with no transparency, that should really scare everyone.
@ceoln I found one of them is @BezosJets, so the logic would be the same. Banning his personal account looks purely vindictive though, and the hypocrisy is overpowering. Which doesn’t surprise me; he’s a bundle of cognitive dissonances wrapped in layers of neurosis. But I still say the Jet accounts needed to go.
@AmberWavesofFlame I don't know; they're republishing information that's already completely public; so it's hard to say.
This wouldn't apply to tracking someone's car, or their own location, both of which aren't public information, and which I think would already be justly banned.
@AmberWavesofFlame Yeah, I agree. BUT. What he did was, he left the account alone while he was making all the controversial bans/unbans, and used it to say “Look how committed I am to free speech,” so that people wouldn’t be able to criticise his other, more dubious actions (reinstating insurrectionists, banning Melon Husk satire…)
Now he moves on to banning the Jet account, and anyone who complains gets “it’s about my family’s safety”.