Twitter restored ElonJet account

Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by 40four on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:45AM (#33999369)

So? Everyone keeps saying this over and over, but leaving out the most important part. In the same tweet he admitted it’s a direct threat to his personal safety! Can you comment on that part? Because it seems like people want, with Elon and other celebrities, to be put in harms way, in the name of keeping these doxxing accounts online. Which by the way are made by some college kid who probably doesn’t realize the ramifications of what he’s doing.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by te_234350 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:38AM (#34000129)

Meh. Musk has no problem handing information to journalists like Matt Taibbi that included personal email addresses, all the better for Taibbi to accidentally publish.

Musk had no problem insinuating that Yoel Roth was a pedophile (as is Musk's style), reportedly forcing Roth into hiding.

Does Musk recognize the ramifications of what he was doing in either case? No. At any rate, it's pretty clear that the "threats to personal safety" is a mask, he clearly is fine with doxxing and threatening other people's public safety... as long as he is the aggressor, not the victim.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by SketchySeaBeast on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:27AM (#33999943)

Right now it seems like he's willing to defend he and his friend's personal safety (his friend's safety as an after thought mind you), but he doesn't much care about the safety of people he's upset with.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by lolsowrong on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:54AM (#33999488)

I wonder if the founding fathers had an opinion on temporary safety vs liberty. Shame there’s not a quote about that.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by coldtea on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:12AM (#33999746)

I wonder why what some guys wrote centuries ago is taken as holy scripture...

Especially when it's not even accurate and misunderstood:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by djbusby on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:10AM (#33999709)

Here's one https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-01...

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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