Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
Very funny how Elon was actively bragging about how committed he was to free speech by allowing an account that tracked his flights (which is public info). Welp!
On Elon’s Twitter, you are now banned from tweeting publicly-available information about the location of his plane because of “safety”— but you are not banned if you incite a deadly insurrection against the US government.
I'm desperately bored of Elon news cycles but this obviously pretextual, post-hoc change to policies to protect his own private jet info is hilarious and makes the stuff exposed in the Twitter Files look like an absolute model of considered, deliberative policy-making.
@elonmusk Elon’s Free Speech on Twitter:
- you can’t make fun of Elon
- you can’t post videos of Elon getting booed
- you can’t share Elon’s jet using public flight data
- you can threaten someone’s life and well-being based on their religion, race, or beliefs
What a clown 🤡
Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.
Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.