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Elon Musk is the kid on the playground shouting "time-out" and inventing a new rule every time he's about to get tagged.

>>richbe+(OP)
I've known Musk was crazy ever since he baselessly called Vern Unsworth (the diver who rescued the children trapped in a cave in Thailand) a "pedophile".

But there was a reason he invented this new rule, and I think it's unwise and unfair to dismiss a stalker attack as "being tagged on the playground".

>>leeree+zw
Most of those banned have nothing at all to do with providing updates from the public database of jet flight plans.

The only common thread is that they report in Elon Musk. They have nothing to do with the stalking incident, just with annoying Musk by doing other journalism.

Further, if he was doing what you were saying, that's not a new rule. The new rule that Musk made as to bring back doxxers and targeted harassers like LibsOfTikTok, that had been putting innocent people at great bodily risk by inflaming people with falsehoods and then sending them after people in real life. Yet LibsOfTikTok is still on Twitter!!

>>epista+Rz
> The only common thread is that they report in Elon Musk. They have nothing to do with the stalking incident

According to Reuters (not linked because paywall), Ella Irwin (Twitter's head of trust and safety) said all accounts that linked to ElonJet were reviewed. Most of the suspended accounts probably did that; I've seen screenshots of such links from a couple of them.

I don't know anything about LibsOfTikTok, but I took a quick look at their Twitter feed and didn't see any real-time location information. Perhaps you could point it out?

>>leeree+zw
This purported stalking happened to a car, miles away from any airport, on a day when his plane hadn't flown and therefore its location hadn't been updated.

>>epista+Rz
Libs of TikTok literally reposts content made public by the author. LoTT does not create the videos, they do not tell the video creators what to say. LoTT just gives those individuals more of the attention they seek which is the goal of posting said content. If anything LoTT helps normalize the behavior from these creators and gives them a larger bullhorn. LoTT gives publicity to those that are a significant minority.

>>leeree+qB
The Reuters article I found said this:

> It was unclear if all the journalists whose accounts were suspended had commented on or shared news about @elonjet.

Also, I have never encountered a paywalled Reuters article, and didn't know that could exist! Could you link it? Also no reason not to link to paywalled material, paywalls hit the top of the front page all the time at HN.

>>epista+tN
It seems to have been a malfunction; I went to the same link on a different computer and it worked fine. [1]

I have seen confirmation about several of the suspended accounts:

Aaron Rupar confirmed he posted a link to ElonJet's Facebook page [2]

Drew Harwell (of WaPo) confirmed "in the course of reporting about ElonJet we posted links to Elon Jet" [3]

The Verge says Mastodon tweeted a link to ElonJet [4]

Micah Lee confirmed he linked to both the Twitter and Mastodon accounts of ElonJet [5]

1: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-manually-reviewed...

2: https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/aaron-rupar-twitter-suspen...

3: https://boingboing.net/2022/12/16/musk-ragequits-twitter-spa...

4: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23511894/twitter-suspend...

5: https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-twitter-suspen...

>>azerni+qJ
Plus, no police report was filed.

>>factsa+IJ
LoTT sends armies of goons at specific times and locations to harass and threaten people. What LoTT does is 100 times worse than ElonJet. If you can't see the difference between actual threats on lives against Elon's faux threat then I can't help you.

If Chaya was only reposting w/o commentary, you might have a point. But she isn't. She's claiming that those people are "groomers", or "pedos", or whatever slur bigots are using now.

>>Raving+SY
Could you provide a link to a single tweet that gave instructions, times or locations to harass people?

Or

Did LoTT share PUBLIC information about PUBLIC events? Fuck... in the last 24 hours people have lost their fucking minds over Elon's stalking ban and claim it's public information.

Ya can't have it both ways. I know folxs want to but it's not possible.

>>richbe+(OP)
Let's just rename Twitter to Elonball (h/t Calvin&Hobbes)