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by elforce002 586 days ago
Who did he ban?
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Some are here https://observer.com/2022/12/elon-musk-suspend-twitter-accou... There was also Dell Cameron for reporting about a Twitter hack; Liam Nissan, TrueAnon, for poking fun at Musk; Ken Klippensten for sharing an embarrassing document about JD Vance before the election, Alan MacLeod & Steven Monacelli for who knows what.

He frivolously sued orgs whose speech affects his bottom line in order to bankrupt them, like the Center for Countering Digital Hate, MediaMatters or Global Alliance for Responsible Media. There was him folding without a fight to censorship requests from India and Turkey. There's him banning the use of 'cis' and 'cisgender' on Twitter, and Pro-Palestinian phrase "from the river to the sea".

Altogether, it paints a picture of someone whose stated commitment to free-speech is not backed by facts, and entirely self-serving.

I checked your first link.

“ On December 16, 2022, Musk stated that account access would only be restricted for seven days[2][3][5] and on December 17, 2022, some accounts were reportedly restored with Musk citing Twitter community polls as the reason for the reversal.”

This was something to do with tracking Musk’s location and sharing it on Twitter, according to your link.

I can’t be bothered to validate your secondary links.

Posting publicly available flight ADSB information (you can even set up a tracker at home to track overhead flights) is not "tracking someone's location" or private info.
> I can’t be bothered to validate your secondary links.

That’s a shame. They’re more challenging for you to refute.