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>>prawn+(OP)
> Update: Musk just weighed in on the suspensions, characterizing them as intentional. “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” he tweeted in a reply.

> It’s worth noting that the policy these accounts violated, a prohibition against sharing “live location information,” is only 24 hours old.

It seems like a good rule, but in this case the application of the rule seems less impersonal than it could be

Let’s try to make a comment that creates less outrage than most…

This is why it would be interesting to post public information about politicians collected from the online spyware that tracks all of us. It would rapidly motivate new laws that at least somewhat improve privacy.

This always happens when rule makers are personally affected by a problem: the problem starts getting attention

>>barbar+Ae
Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Musk didn't like it so the journalists are now banned.

The dude is truly off his rocker now. The "rules" are whatever he makes up on the spot. He's self-destructing before our eyes...no longer the richest man in the world. Telsa stock tanking all because he can't STFU and acts like a spoiled 12 year old.

>>Goofba+uh
> Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it.

Do you have evidence of that? He claims they were reporting the location.

>>darawk+ou
I'm not sure why would anyone would trust what Musk says without independent confirmation...

>>epista+gy
I think it's fair not to draw conclusions either way without confirmation. But if that's what's happening here the statements should be framed in those terms, not as a declarations that he banned people who didn't even violate his new rule.

>>darawk+RE
Given past performance, along with behavior like banning links to Mastodon, it's also completely fair to guess that Musk is likely lying again. It's a common behavior of his, and far more likely than some of these journalists lying, when the journalists could easily be proven wrong, at great cost to themselves. Musk pays no penalty for lying.

Edit: that said, there could be some small tenuous grain of truth to what Musk thinks happened...