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Elon Musk is a nice chap
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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 18, 2022, 12:09:35 am ---

I'm not a public figure, nobody cares what I'm doing, I'm just not that interesting. My cars have visible license plates on them, they're registered to me, if someone really wanted to track their location they could. At this point they're old enough that they stand out like a sore thumb and people recognize me based on the cars anyway. Who cares? When you're a public figure people get interested. Musk puts himself in the spotlight, he could just as easily be reclusive and mind his own business.

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 :palm:

Mate.
tom66:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on December 18, 2022, 12:27:32 am ---But isn't that the problem? I wonder if perhaps you should care who knows.

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Well, it's pretty obvious Elon is bothered, I don't think anyone needs that pointing out.

What isn't obvious is why this is suddenly a problem, when the exact arguments have been made by others, along the lines of "you can't arbitrate over free speech, because who moderates the moderators?"

Who decides whether ElonJet crosses a line?  Is it *obvious*, given what is being done is just the aggregation of public information, in a manner that almost anyone could do with a day of effort?  Well, it was pretty obvious to me that banning accounts telling people the vaccines have microchips in them, is a good idea, but, well apparently it's an unsolvable problem to decide what information is bad and what information is good. 

Unless you're rich enough to buy the company, then you get to decide.

It's hypocrisy to dislike ElonJet and campaign for it to be banned, but not to support other forms of moderation.
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Infraviolet on December 18, 2022, 12:29:25 am ---

As for Musk's jet, isn;t it the case that he said he now rents random private jets, so tracking "his jet" isn't very meaningful anyway?

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Perhaps he might be the only grown up in the room who understands that (some) people are nuts with too much information. If what you say is true, and some idiot still follows the elonjet account, acts and mis-targets, whose fault is it?
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 18, 2022, 12:33:23 am ---
It's hypocrisy to dislike ElonJet and campaign for it to be banned, but not to support other forms of moderation.

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I don't know if I would campaign for it to be banned. A sensible approach, as suggested above, would for the account user to consider having a time delay. Something tells me that's not the game he wants to play.
tom66:
Replace "vax something or other" with "Trump won the 2020 election" or "5G causes COVID".  Whatever flavour of disinformation you (don't) accept.

I don't want a debate over PMs.  Should be public if it's going to be had.
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