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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
It's also worth noting that revealing real names and workplaces of anonymous accounts is still allowed. The doxxing that is banned is a specific class of doxxing that isn't often considered to be doxxing.

>>h11h+3t
This. Since when is current location of a well known person doxxing? AFAICT, Elon made that up to suit himself.

>>alangi+PR
That's probably true for everything about how he runs Twitter. It's his personal platform now, and not a public town square anymore. He makes up the rules to suit himself, and he'll enforce them the way he wants.

>>mcv+y01
most of what you say is spot on, but lets be clear:

twitter has never nor would it have ever been "a public town square"

anything owned by a private company is the literal opposite of a "public" anything.

and way more importantly, anything with a character limit of 280 characters is absolutely thoroughly inadequate to discuss the most complicated and nuanced subjects that philosophers have been wrestling with for centuries with entire tomes and libraries worth of space.

>>toofy+4a1
I completely and wholeheartedly agree. These companies always love to present themselves as a public space, while simultaneously leveraging their control over it.

And I definitely prefer social media that support long form posts and contextual discussions instead of these weird loosely linked twitter threads.