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That Was Quick! Elon Musk Lifts Twitter Ban on Journalists Who Doxxed Him
Townhall ^ | 12/17/2022 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 12/17/2022 5:37:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Elon Musk restored the Twitter accounts of some journalists who were originally suspended after he claimed they disseminated information about his location.

Initially, Musk gave the journalists a seven-day suspension. However, after major backlash from the public, he decided to put the decision in Twitter users' hands.

The reporters who were suspended were from liberal outlets such as the Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN.

Musk conducted a 24-hour poll on his account asking if the reporters should be reinstated "now" or in "seven days."

In a 59% to 41% vote, almost 3.7 million Twitter users decided to put the journalists back on the social media platform "now."

"The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now," Musk tweeted on Friday night.

Dubbed a "Thursday Night Massacre," CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan, New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac and Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell were booted off the platform earlier this week, being told they were permanently off Twitter.

The event began with the suspension of @ElonJet, an account that tracked Musk's private jet usage, in which the CEO claimed the account was shut down because of safety precautions since it was "doxxing real-time location info."

Musk then warned, "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."

The reporters who were suspended had either reported on @ElonJet's suspension or had posted links to the private jet tracking on their own Twitter accounts.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; doxxing; elonmusk; newsforumabuse; twitter
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1 posted on 12/17/2022 5:37:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He wussed out.


2 posted on 12/17/2022 5:41:01 PM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Warning shot.


3 posted on 12/17/2022 5:46:02 PM PST by noexcuses
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To: SeekAndFind

Let the users decide. That’s very smart.

If you don’t like the outcome, join and vote.

And Elon isn’t the “judge” (that’s the problem the previous owners ran into).


4 posted on 12/17/2022 5:46:19 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is not good, but it’s what I expect.

I don’t think anyone out there is worth the sh!t they produce on a sunday morning.

When he does this he’s sending the wrong signal - As an admin for several forums I’ve found that if you ban and lift, ban and lift, ban and lift you’re just flexing muscles.

A decisive leader thinks about the action and it’s impact on overall strategy and tactics - Then executes and doesn’t revisit the idea.

This is just a spoiled 20 year old admin on a car forum sorta stuff.


5 posted on 12/17/2022 5:50:31 PM PST by Celerity
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To: SeekAndFind

“In a 59% to 41% vote, almost 3.7 million Twitter users decided to put the journalists back on the social media platform “now.””

I wonder what their reasoning is?


6 posted on 12/17/2022 5:51:41 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: sauropod

The folk spoke.


7 posted on 12/17/2022 5:53:37 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: SeekAndFind

“In a 59% to 41% vote, almost 3.7 million Twitter users”

How many of them are left extremists and computer bots?


8 posted on 12/17/2022 5:59:26 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No big deal, consider them warned.
The policy still stands, and they’ll suspend themselves again soon, anyway.
Smart move by Musk.


9 posted on 12/17/2022 6:00:57 PM PST by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope he kept Keith Olbermann locked out. And his dog’s account!


10 posted on 12/17/2022 6:14:33 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: SeekAndFind

Justice and mercy.


11 posted on 12/17/2022 6:18:22 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Fireone

“No big deal, consider them warned.
The policy still stands, and they’ll suspend themselves again soon, anyway.
Smart move by Musk.”

It is smart. He’s not playing to us, he’s playing to the country as a whole, which, no doubt, disapproves of his banning of ‘journalist’ accounts (since the media spoon-feeds them).

Star Trek had a really good episode where Kirk gets transported to a parallel universe which is filled with the same people, but they’re all evil (kind of like the State Department in the past 50 years, turning all evil). In it, good-Kirk goes to the bad ship and quickly realizes that he had to act bad to survive and try to get home, so he acts bad enough to fool them. BUT bad-Kirk never had a chance, just no way for a person as cruel as bad-Kirk to fake being good...so he and the other 3 or 4 are locked up for the duration.

Same here - the Leftists are Pure Evil...and now they’re expected to behave??? Simply not possible. They’ll be getting themselves booted, one-by-one, and for good cause.


12 posted on 12/17/2022 6:22:09 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sensible business decision.


13 posted on 12/17/2022 6:30:30 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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To: SeekAndFind

He is about free speech, but he gave them a stern warning.
And put the issue to a user poll.
And this was the major news story for days.
Well played...


14 posted on 12/17/2022 6:33:06 PM PST by tips up (When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: noexcuses

Warning shot.

To flush them out.


15 posted on 12/17/2022 7:47:32 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: sauropod
He wussed out.

Not at all. He is creating a contrast between himself and the old Twitter. Also, he is putting the lie to the idea that half the country is going to dump Twitter. These guys want back in, now.
16 posted on 12/17/2022 7:55:20 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: Jyotishi

Roughly 3.7 million of them


17 posted on 12/17/2022 8:27:15 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: SeekAndFind
Social media is a scourge on humanity. It's become a means of destruction. Ruining peoples lives and nations.

He's too hands on. Twitter will consume Musk if he lets it. It's taken on a life of it's own. He obviously can't control it.

The Genie can't be put back in the bottle. Outside forces have already taken control of it...again.

Twitter could financially ruin him.

Twitter files are useless after the fact information. They serve no purpose except to keep brain dead losers entertained. The same losers that kept it going to fund their own destruction.

18 posted on 12/17/2022 8:34:02 PM PST by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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To: sauropod

Exactly.

That isn’t leadership. That is mob rule


19 posted on 12/17/2022 8:50:11 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Jyotishi

And how many of those 59% were completely ok with Pre Trump and others on the Right being banned?


20 posted on 12/17/2022 8:52:27 PM PST by qaz123
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