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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. PM_me_+5B2[view] [source] 2022-12-16 18:42:20
>>Eddy_V+Xv1
Blocking those who want to give the general public up to-the-minute location information on him and his family is "silencing his critics?"

Nothing could be further from the truth.

You have no fundamental right to track Elon Musk, just like I would have no fundamental right to track the whereabouts of you and your family. Disagree? When do you let us attach a tracking device to your conveyance?

Few, if any, would be comfortable having their family movements tracked by the public.

Also, journalist is a bit of a stretch. Journalism died a long time ago. Corporate script-readers at best, and state-run media parrots at worst. Either would be a better description than "journalist."

I remember when that "journalist" from WashPost published the home address of a woman she didn't like. Everyone was all for that...

Now it seems the shoe is on the other foot and the hypocrites don't like it.

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3. eatsyo+8H2[view] [source] 2022-12-16 19:14:28
>>PM_me_+5B2
GPS tracking on his plane is public information. So you can spin this shit any way you want but you are just wrong.

>up to-the-minute location information on him and his family

Nice exaggeration- you make it sound as if people are posting his real-time location at every moment from his phone or something.

All the plane info tells you is where he is in the sky, and then basically what city he landed into.

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