Billionairs hating public discourse, news at 11.

The article states that given reason was "journalists had revealed private information about his family"

Your comment erroneously claims the reason was "for doing their jobs".

I'd recommend reading dang's comment since you have a lot of inflammatory comments in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010908

I don't think it's difficult to become inflammatory when people are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to paint what Twitter/Elon did as justified. You're not arguing in good faith and I see that as far more harmful for HN.

That is simply your view, and I don't agree. Again, its no big deal, people can disagree. People are attempting to moralize the issue due to a personal vendetta against Elon (such as the poster I replied to).

You can disagree all you want. Doesn't change the facts about what happened. Stop lying and trying to defend Elon.

Personal attacks are against HN guidelines. I think we're done here. Goodbye.

Pointing out that you're lying isn't a personal attack, but okay.

It's become really obvious that you're allowed to do that if you're hating on Musk/conservatives.

And it's really obvious why, too: https://i.imgur.com/taGzsZP.jpg

Since HN is basically the nerds from tech, it makes perfect sense.

Are there any Oracle employees that can comment on the hivemind?

You can even see it before you read it. Comments like yours that are entirely reasonable, and trying to protect what HN is supposed to be in good faith are being faded out of existence because you corrected misinformation that they prefer over the truth.

There are ways to do that job that don't involve poking the proverbial dragon every waking minute. You can call Elon a hypocrite for banning people who attack him relentlessly, but all humans are hypocrites. Perhaps they should take a break from the "Elon beat", because their reporting appears increasingly personal in nature.

The crowd that got banned seems unusually thick-headed, and they'll probably just attack Elon (and Twitter itself) even harder once they get unbanned. Karl Popper explained it better than I can, but Twitter doesn't have to extend unlimited tolerance to those who seek to destroy Twitter.

> Karl Popper explained it better than I can

I think you got the wrong takeaway from that.

So if I was hired to post your real-time location and disparage your reputation daily, it would be okay? As long as I have the proper job title?

Don't run for political office if that upsets you.

Elon ran for political office?

Rules for them but not for me.

There are, quite literally, different rules around public figures than private figures.

Elon made himself a public figure long ago.

As has been repeated often, aircraft movement information is public.

None of this represents tracking his or his family's real time location, because:

a) We can't tell which aircraft he is on from that data. b) He can use other aircraft, including charters. c) This only applies to while the aircraft is actually airborne or departing from or arriving at an airport, which is already easy to observe and record by spotters, and does not track him or his family anywhere else.