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1. Eddy_V+Xv1[view] [source] 2022-12-16 13:19:26
>>prawn+(OP)
It's interesting that many are debating the value of this 'rule', when this action is blatant abuse of his powers to silence his critics. He has now a lengthy and growing history of this type of behavior, so it was 100% foreseeable. He could just come out and say that its his twitter and he can do what he wants, but no, because he also wants to be seen as a 'defender of free speech'. He acts like a-hole, but then expects unquestioning adoration.
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2. nabla9+yA1[view] [source] 2022-12-16 13:59:02
>>Eddy_V+Xv1
Most of HN completely miss the intent of conventional doxxing rules and widely accepted privacy laws in most countries.

- Public figures, like politicians, top businessmen, and so on don't get the same amount of privacy and protection as regular Joe. You can follow them and track them. If you have power and influence, you don't enjoy the same privacy protections as others. That's a really good principle to have.

- Elon Musk himself is know for punching down that violates this principle. His M.O is to point his crazy followers against regular Joes and then playing innocent. "It was not me".

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3. slibhb+EC1[view] [source] 2022-12-16 14:12:40
>>nabla9+yA1
It's funny how this debate has shifted. Now that Elon owns twitter, it's Elon haters bringing up the law whereas before they were talking about how twitter can do what they want as a private company.

For my money, there's absolutely nothing wrong with twitter disallowing "person trackers". Legality aside, whether it's Elon Musk or Nancy Pelosi, the subtext of these trackers is creepy and threatening and banning them from some platform is fine.

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4. memish+BQ1[view] [source] 2022-12-16 15:18:53
>>slibhb+EC1
Exactly, the hypocrisy knows no bounds.

They were defending Twitter's biased nontransparent censorship before only because it aligned with their bias. Now that it doesn't match their bias, they see the problem.

Finally, welcome to the club!

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5. BugsJu+xa2[view] [source] 2022-12-16 16:45:28
>>memish+BQ1
I'm always surprised when a commenter is blinded to seemingly obvious differences.

Nobody else has joined the "absolute free speech but only until it targets me specifically" club. They're still pointing at it as a bad thing.

People are rightly pointing out that literally just a few days ago Elon's entire mantra, the story for why he paid tens of Billions of dollars to buy twitter, was him moaning about bans and loudly proclaiming to anyone who would listen that he wouldn't do bans because "free speech".

And yet all of a sudden, when that absolute free speech is directed at himself, his narrative flips on its head and ban ban ban ban ban.

Well, the consequence of free speech absolutism is that people will broadcast your location. Gosh. Who ever could have predicted that.

There's a general segment of the population who are incapable of understanding or caring about obvious consequences for anything that doesn't happen to them personally.

The inability to understand or care about obvious consequences until they happen to oneself is a normal characteristic of young children, still mentally undeveloped and shielded by the adults around them, but it's weird, unbecoming, and sad for a grown adult to still have this problem.

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