I think Elon Musk motto has become "Free Speech only if I like it".
What has changed from two weeks ago to now that suddenly this has become an issue? The fact that Elon Musk now perceives he was affected by it. The security threat has not changed whatsoever since the account started tweeting the location of his jet, which btw, is publicly available so any motivated individual would still be able to find it and track it.
It really feels like Elon is just going about things as he personally feels rather than applying a robust ethical and moral framework to his decisions. Not that I expected anything else, but this definitely might feel stressful and awful to this poor guy who iirc is like a 17-18 year old anyway?
The difference between 2 weeks ago was that in his delusional/narcissist mind only a very few "woke extremists" must dislike him since he is the savior of humankind, but after being booed at the Chapelle's show last weekend he's realizing it's more than just a few people.
You're ignoring a few things and trusting him too much:
1) Is ignoring that he asked for demotion of this account before the incident after saying he wasn't going to
2) He often lies about details and reasons for his decisions. Like saying the booing was because of a fight on the show we had video for.
3) There is zero correlation presented so far to this account being related to this attack
4) The ban comes too soon after a policy change without recourse, the account could for instance only post location changes with weeks delay, etc.
TBH, Im ok with limiting tracking of location but this guy is one of the richest man in the world and very public, there is public interest in knowing where he flying those jets to (he can still rent/lease, hide in whatever organisation structure he wants).
The policy is also not clear about what do to on exceptions and will not be equally enforced. "Elon is doing a show right now with dave Chappele at the X arena". Is this a violation? What kind of gray areas can be assumed will depend on how he interprets, etc. It doesn't really matter, it's his playground now, but it's hypocritical for him and he deserves to hear shit for it.
1) Is ignoring that he asked for demotion of this account before the incident after saying he wasn't going to
I am aware he mentioned it was a threat to his safety two weeks ago. Demotion happening a few hours before the announcement of the attack shouldn't be relevant.
2) He often lies about details and reasons for his decisions. Like saying the booing was because of a fight on the show we had video for.
Haven't heard of this, post the video.
> 3) There is zero correlation presented so far to this account being related to this attack
This is true, it's not directly related as far as we know, but people seem to hate Elon for some odd reason and he deserves the same level of privacy your and I do.
> 4) The ban comes too soon after a policy change without recourse, the account could for instance only post location changes with weeks delay, etc.
It was always against ToS to use public data for abusive purposes, the clarification is good. But I actually agree with this point - make the change then give accounts a few days to comply.
> TBH, Im ok with limiting tracking of location but this guy is one of the richest man in the world and very public, there is public interest in knowing where he flying those jets to.
No he deserves the same level of privacy you or I do. Rich people or other people that are disliked don't stop having rights. The delay satisfied the public interest question.
What has changed from two weeks ago to now that suddenly this has become an issue? The fact that Elon Musk now perceives he was affected by it. The security threat has not changed whatsoever since the account started tweeting the location of his jet, which btw, is publicly available so any motivated individual would still be able to find it and track it.
It really feels like Elon is just going about things as he personally feels rather than applying a robust ethical and moral framework to his decisions. Not that I expected anything else, but this definitely might feel stressful and awful to this poor guy who iirc is like a 17-18 year old anyway?