VICE: Elon Musk Had His Most Absurd, Disturbing 24 Hours at Twitter Yet

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

In 24 hours, Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately doxed a man.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk5yx/elon-musk-had-his-most-absurd-disturbing-24-hours-at-twitter-yet

On Wednesday, Twitter chief Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would in order to protect free speech, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately posted a video doxing a man and asked his 121 million followers to identify him.

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Musk then took to his personal account to launch a PR offensive. He said in a tweet, "Any account doxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation," but that "posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis" will be allowed. He then went on to claim that a "crazy stalker" in LA had blocked a car carrying his child, X, and jumped on the hood. He posted a video of an unknown man and asked his 121 million followers if anyone recognized the car or the person driving it.

In the video, the masked man is sitting in a car and appears to say, "I'm not…" while an unknown man films and replies, "Yep, pretty sure." The man in the car takes out his own phone and films back, asking, "What's your name?" The camera pans around to put his license plate in view.

-snipping paragraph about Musk asking if anyone could identify the man or car-

It was a stunning, and disturbing, moment. The richest man in the world asking his millions of rabid fans to identify an individual—versus, say, going to the police—is reckless, and possibly dangerous, behavior. It aso flies in the face of his anti-doxing stance, even if it technically conforms to the new "delayed locations only" rule. Twitter also bans sharing video of private individuals, with the caveat that it could be newsworthy or relevant to public discourse on important topics. The video Musk shared is clearly neither, but he is the boss now, and nobody is going to tell him otherwise.

I saw this happening last night and posted about it, and the reaction from Musk's followers, in the OP and reply 12 here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217465293

Musk was inciting a mob, as explained there. Incredibly reckless and dangerous.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Muskie screwed up buying Twitter, he knows he screwed up, and now he is losing his sh*t.

[Voltaire2]

5. bankruptcy is looming.

The fact that he had to sell a LOT of Tesla at a horrible price is 'interesting'.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. If Courts Allow It

BKO isn't like getting a new license plate tag.
I'm dubious that a judge would be very amenable to reorganization (hence leaving creditors holding the bag) because a guy knowingly overpaid by $30 billion & added debt service to do it.
I'm thinking it's not quite looming. Might be a distress sale to get out from under it, though.

[Initech]

2. He is playing an incredibly dangerous game of stochastic terrorism.

And it won't end well for him.

[scarletlib]

3. I think he has suffered a mental breakdown

[OneGrassRoot]

4. It is really a tossup as to who I hate more...

him or Trump. Gawd.