I’ve been trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because I do believe free speech, even on commercial platforms, is an ideal worth upholding, but he’s making it really hard with actions like this.
He says he wants Twitter to appeal to the 80% in the middle of the political spectrum, but he is obviously alienating larger and larger groups of people on the center and left.
Come on dude. It's a plane tracking account. It's clearly against terms of service. It's not exactly an assault on free speech.
> live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available;
"measured" - he did not say this. He said "even extends" which implies that it was already on the edge of what he deemed free speech that was acceptable to him.
Can someone change their mind? Yes.
And this wasn't like an election promise or anything. The man can do what he likes. He bought Twitter with his own money.
Is there reason to believe the risk to his personal safety has increased since buying Twitter...yes there is a lot of evidence. He is very hated now.
> the passage you cite from Twitter policy was only added today,
This whole situation shows such derangement of people though. Most people would agree that it's probably a good policy to prevent posting live tracking of people on Twitter. If the policy was changed prior to him buying Twitter, people would welcome it. But now that its him doing it, they are angry at him for doing it, but they welcome the policy itself.
It's really quite an interesting study of group psychology.
If the policy changed this summer, it would have been the 1rst topic discussed in my country, and I would have been vocal about it. 'laviondebernard' was probably the pro-ecological account with the most reach in my country, propped up a discussion about a tax in private jets, and follow up the plane of the richest man in the world as well as planes owned by Total and other big companies.
The fact that this account isn't yet taken down shows it was just another kneejerk reaction from Musk, followedup by another one to hide his thin skin, and isn't about protecting anyone.
I guess the question is do you make an exception for public figures. Which seems to be the case.
But you have to think, would you want your travel plans tracked?
It's easy to be okay with it because you seem to not like Elon Musk and the things he does, but if it was someone else who you liked and who was being harassed...you have to have some level of fairness.
If i had a private plane, of course i wouldn't care. I don't care if they follow Bernard (richest man in the world now) either, and he is a way, way, way more private person the Elon Musk. Bernard wasn't okay, sold his plane and now rent jets at a private company, which is a good solution tbf.
Now it will be a bit harder (and more expensive) for him to go on "fuck it" trip like london-to-london because the taxi is taking too long to arrive. Fine by me.
> Would you want someone to have an account tracking your location?
I wouldn't want nazis to be given megaphones, that sort of thing tends to end with blood in the trenches, but he's doing just that by unbanning Stormfront, et al.
If potential harm[1] is why elonjet is banned, that same argument applies to that filth, as well.
[1] A rabbit hole so wide and long, you can drive a traincar through it.
He actively replies/likes accounts with right wing to far-right leanings. Most of these accounts aren't found or recommended unless the user actively looks for them. This says a lot about Elon and his so-called independent leaning.
It’s possible for him to personally be right-leaning and also fairly enforce apolitical rules on his platform, it just doesn’t seem like he’s doing it.
I dont think it is actually possible for him to do that. Other people sure, but nothing in Musks's past leads me to believe that he can or will apolitical enforce rules... which was his publicly stated reason for doing any of this. He has shown himself to be a liar, he continues to lie, there is no reason to believe he will stop lying.
He says he wants Twitter to appeal to the 80% in the middle of the political spectrum, but he is obviously alienating larger and larger groups of people on the center and left.