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1. c54+C6[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:17:36
>>prawn+(OP)
The wave of bans from the muskjet thing has been quite dramatic.

It'll be interesting to see if the people who've been lauding musk for his supposedly pro free speech attitudes will reckon with what's been happening in actuality, or if they'll just accept this as "freedom for me but not for thee".

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2. progra+dd[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:54:39
>>c54+C6
Doxxing adds nothing to the conversation. It’s not an opinion, an argument, or an artful expression — forms that free speech laws are designed to protect. Rather, doxxing is merely harassment and adds nothing substantive. Same argument can be made for racial slurs and the like. Anyone pretending otherwise is being disingenuous.
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3. Zigurd+1e[view] [source] 2022-12-16 02:57:45
>>progra+dd
Plane tracking is a significant form of OSINT for some investors.
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4. progra+bf[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:03:09
>>Zigurd+1e
That’s obviously not the motivation of ElonJet. Again, disingenuous.

If there was anything substantive about ElonJet, it would have been the statistics on jet fuel consumption, because that makes a statement about hypocrisy. They could have posted that without revealing locations, which crosses the line to singling out an individual for the purpose of harassment.

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5. Zigurd+zg[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:10:28
>>progra+bf
The location of his plane is very relevant to anyone looking to see if he might pay attention to Tesla, again, someday.
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6. jacque+4l[view] [source] 2022-12-16 03:33:38
>>Zigurd+zg
Or if he's visiting Russia.

The degree to which Musk is upset by this makes me wonder if there isn't something more to it than just 'personal safety' concerns fed by paranoia. It may well be that the location of his plane tells a story that he does not want exposed. Because frankly the amount of goodwill that he's burning over this makes no sense at all.

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7. wpietr+bv[view] [source] 2022-12-16 04:38:42
>>jacque+4l
For me the simpler explanation is that he had a legitimately scary experience involving his child. Combine that with the (self-inflicted) stress of his last few months, his thin-skinned nature, and him firing anybody at Twitter with a backbone and it seems very plausible to me that he's lashing out and thinking he's doing great.

Somebody described his Twitter purchase as "fragile narcissist buys criticism factory", so I think he has wedged himself into a situation that his ego makes both intolerable and inescapable. If he had somebody in his life to talk sense into him ("honey, put down your phone and come to bed"), I'd expect him to walk away and consider it rationally. But here I could imagine him continuing to spiral for quite a while.

To me, it's tragic in the way that Rudy Giuliani or Kanye West is: too much success can create the conditions for a long, lonely downward slide.

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