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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...A15nvhS?cvid=300418b86da045eba3bb4cf71279ded7
After this I believe he's just desperate to stay relevant.
Playing with people's lives for a headline. Remind you of someone?
Elon Musk Buys Twitter
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...A15nvhS?cvid=300418b86da045eba3bb4cf71279ded7
After this I believe he's just desperate to stay relevant.
Playing with people's lives for a headline. Remind you of someone?
jack
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LOL at his "stalker concerns"
The shutdowns escalated to include prominent journalists and other accounts that had discussed his plane’s location. To justify the move, he rewrote some of Twitter’s policies to try and stop people from sharing those details.
But some of the information Musk was concerned about on Twitter is publicly available, due to dramatic improvements in how the aviation system tracks aircraft to ensure a high level of safety and to improve efficiency. Untangling privacy concerns from the improvements in the underlying technology isn’t easy, say aviation experts.
The flight-tracking data can be used to monitor planes in real time because of years of improvements in computers and growing use of GPS. Portions of the data are publicly available from the US Federal Aviation Administration, or it can be accessible to anyone with the right radio receiver at home.
Starting in 2020, the FAA required that any aircraft that expected to be guided by air-traffic controllers — which includes almost all high-performance jets — needed to install equipment that used on-board GPS to automatically broadcast its position.
That meant that the expensive, government-run radar system was no longer the primary means of tracking planes. The result is higher accuracy and safety improvements for such things as mid-air collision prevention. It has even allowed real-time aircraft tracking in the most remote regions of the world from space, and near instantaneous notifications of crashes.
But it also meant that the radio broadcasts from aircraft could be monitored by anyone with a receiver on the ground.
Services such as ADSBExchange, Flightradar24 and FlightAware, among others, have created networks of receivers — often operated by volunteers — across the world.
ADSBexchange.com LLC was a source of data for Jack Sweeney, the Florida student who ran Twitter accounts that tracked Musk and others with private planes. Its account was among the suspended. “I don’t get it,” said Dan Streufert, the flight-tracking company’s founder and president.
Streufert said he never intended his service to become a de facto paparazzi tool. What had started as a hobby has evolved into a growing business that tracks flights, but has also assisted accident investigations and can perform a public service by helping monitor aircraft noise and other issues, he said.
Following his suspensions of the journalists, Musk cited Twitter’s “doxxing” policy, which forbids users from sharing sensitive or personal information about other people on the service without their consent. The violations appear to tie back to a single Twitter account – @ElonJet, run by Sweeney – which has more than half a million followers and tweets out the location of Musk’s private plane, including when and where it took off and landed.
On Wednesday, Musk suspended @ElonJet after an incident in LA where he says a car carrying his young son was followed by a stalker. Musk has suggested that public access to his plane information led to the incident.
Twitter has long had a doxxing policy that forbids sharing things like another person’s home address or phone number, but that policy was updated this week to add new language about “live location information.”
The update meant that people who share “travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available” could now be suspended. Many of the journalists that were suspended have covered Musk for years, and had linked to info about @ElonJet or linked to other non-Twitter accounts that included Musk’s private jet information.
Musk also suspended the account for a rival social network, Mastodon, for tweeting a promotion that @ElonJet was publishing Musk’s private plane details on their service, instead.
The suspensions led to an outcry by those who pointed out that private jet information is largely public. Twitter’s policy also says that “sharing information that is publicly available elsewhere” is not a violation of the doxxing policy, and previously had an exemption for journalists, who often report on real-time events.
People who for security or privacy reasons don’t want their location known can opt for FAA to screen their aircraft’s identity. But some of the underlying information remains a public record and enterprising sleuths such as Sweeney have taken advantage of that for their broadcast accounts.
Because most US airports are public, anyone watching a $50-million private jet on a runway can also crack the code.
“These privacy mitigation programs are effective for real-time operations but do not guarantee absolute privacy,” the FAA said in a statement.
Eliminating this data from the public domain seems unlikely. “The current system of aviation in this country is mostly funded by the taxpayer,” said Jeff Guzzetti, an aviation safety consultant who previously served as the head of accident investigations with the FAA. “So the federal government owns and operates this equipment and therefore is obligated to make it available to the citizens who are paying for it.”
The underlying reason for the current system is to prevent planes from colliding in midair and other safety concerns, Guzzetti said.
“Aviation in this country is a very complex, well thought-out choreography of thousands of aircraft to ensure safety,” he said. “The whole industry needs to be on-board with that.”
Musk Cries Foul Over Flight Data That’s Readily Available
Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk this week suspended the account of a Florida student who was posting the location of private jets, including Musk’s. He suggested the student was tweeting out his “assassination coordinates.”The shutdowns escalated to include prominent journalists and other accounts that had discussed his plane’s location. To justify the move, he rewrote some of Twitter’s policies to try and stop people from sharing those details.
But some of the information Musk was concerned about on Twitter is publicly available, due to dramatic improvements in how the aviation system tracks aircraft to ensure a high level of safety and to improve efficiency. Untangling privacy concerns from the improvements in the underlying technology isn’t easy, say aviation experts.
The flight-tracking data can be used to monitor planes in real time because of years of improvements in computers and growing use of GPS. Portions of the data are publicly available from the US Federal Aviation Administration, or it can be accessible to anyone with the right radio receiver at home.
Starting in 2020, the FAA required that any aircraft that expected to be guided by air-traffic controllers — which includes almost all high-performance jets — needed to install equipment that used on-board GPS to automatically broadcast its position.
That meant that the expensive, government-run radar system was no longer the primary means of tracking planes. The result is higher accuracy and safety improvements for such things as mid-air collision prevention. It has even allowed real-time aircraft tracking in the most remote regions of the world from space, and near instantaneous notifications of crashes.
But it also meant that the radio broadcasts from aircraft could be monitored by anyone with a receiver on the ground.
Services such as ADSBExchange, Flightradar24 and FlightAware, among others, have created networks of receivers — often operated by volunteers — across the world.
ADSBexchange.com LLC was a source of data for Jack Sweeney, the Florida student who ran Twitter accounts that tracked Musk and others with private planes. Its account was among the suspended. “I don’t get it,” said Dan Streufert, the flight-tracking company’s founder and president.
Streufert said he never intended his service to become a de facto paparazzi tool. What had started as a hobby has evolved into a growing business that tracks flights, but has also assisted accident investigations and can perform a public service by helping monitor aircraft noise and other issues, he said.
Following his suspensions of the journalists, Musk cited Twitter’s “doxxing” policy, which forbids users from sharing sensitive or personal information about other people on the service without their consent. The violations appear to tie back to a single Twitter account – @ElonJet, run by Sweeney – which has more than half a million followers and tweets out the location of Musk’s private plane, including when and where it took off and landed.
On Wednesday, Musk suspended @ElonJet after an incident in LA where he says a car carrying his young son was followed by a stalker. Musk has suggested that public access to his plane information led to the incident.
Twitter has long had a doxxing policy that forbids sharing things like another person’s home address or phone number, but that policy was updated this week to add new language about “live location information.”
The update meant that people who share “travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available” could now be suspended. Many of the journalists that were suspended have covered Musk for years, and had linked to info about @ElonJet or linked to other non-Twitter accounts that included Musk’s private jet information.
Musk also suspended the account for a rival social network, Mastodon, for tweeting a promotion that @ElonJet was publishing Musk’s private plane details on their service, instead.
The suspensions led to an outcry by those who pointed out that private jet information is largely public. Twitter’s policy also says that “sharing information that is publicly available elsewhere” is not a violation of the doxxing policy, and previously had an exemption for journalists, who often report on real-time events.
People who for security or privacy reasons don’t want their location known can opt for FAA to screen their aircraft’s identity. But some of the underlying information remains a public record and enterprising sleuths such as Sweeney have taken advantage of that for their broadcast accounts.
Because most US airports are public, anyone watching a $50-million private jet on a runway can also crack the code.
“These privacy mitigation programs are effective for real-time operations but do not guarantee absolute privacy,” the FAA said in a statement.
Eliminating this data from the public domain seems unlikely. “The current system of aviation in this country is mostly funded by the taxpayer,” said Jeff Guzzetti, an aviation safety consultant who previously served as the head of accident investigations with the FAA. “So the federal government owns and operates this equipment and therefore is obligated to make it available to the citizens who are paying for it.”
The underlying reason for the current system is to prevent planes from colliding in midair and other safety concerns, Guzzetti said.
“Aviation in this country is a very complex, well thought-out choreography of thousands of aircraft to ensure safety,” he said. “The whole industry needs to be on-board with that.”
jack
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Elon Musk Poised to Step Down as Twitter Head as Public Rejects Him
Elon Musk is poised to step down as CEO of Twitter after the public voted overwhelmingly in favor of him resigning in a poll he created on the social media site, following a turbulent time running the network.
"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll," Musk tweeted on Sunday.
Some 57.5 percent of the 17.5 million votes said that he should step down, while 42.5 percent said he should not, in what were billed as final results.
After buying the social media site in October for $44 billion, Musk's leadership of Twitter has been mired in controversy.
For example, Musk, a long-time advocate of "free speech", came under fire last week for suspending several accounts of journalists. Musk said he did this because the reporters allegedly endangered his family by "doxing" or sharing non-public information, about his location. The journalists have since had their accounts re-instated
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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I suspect that Musk bought Twitter primarily to disclose what it had been hiding from the American public (and lying to the representatives of the American public about). Things like this:
reclaimthenet.org
FBI tried to get Twitter to share information outside of normal legal channels
More evidence of the agency attempting to extract data from Twitter directly.
reclaimthenet.org
jack
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- Elon Musk was photographed at the World Cup final with a sanctioned Russian TV presenter.
- Nailya Asker-Zade has been sanctioned by the UK and Canada during the ongoing Ukraine war.
- Musk was also seen Sunday with Jared Kushner and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Doesn't sound dissimilar to TK's rules on PI, though. If, for example, Imperium wanted to post his full legal name and address, he wouldn't get into any shit for it. If one of us posted that information, though, we'd get the boot.
jack
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LOL what a toothless hack. Hope it ruins his little electric car company.
Investing.com-- Elon Musk said on Tuesday that only subscribers to Twitter’s Blue subscription service will be eligible to vote on future policy decisions by the platform, shortly after an overwhelming majority of users voted in favor of his ouster as CEO.
Responding to a tweet suggesting he enact such a voting policy, Musk agreed and said “Twitter will make that change.”
The move comes just a day after nearly 58% of 17.5 million users voted “Yes” to a poll by Musk over whether he should step down as the head of the social media platform. Musk said he would “abide” by the results of the poll.
Investing.com-- Elon Musk said on Tuesday that only subscribers to Twitter’s Blue subscription service will be eligible to vote on future policy decisions by the platform, shortly after an overwhelming majority of users voted in favor of his ouster as CEO.
Responding to a tweet suggesting he enact such a voting policy, Musk agreed and said “Twitter will make that change.”
The move comes just a day after nearly 58% of 17.5 million users voted “Yes” to a poll by Musk over whether he should step down as the head of the social media platform. Musk said he would “abide” by the results of the poll.
jack
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Twitter appears to be struggling.
Users are leaving in the platform in droves. Key advertisers are disappearing. And the bills are piling up.
Now, the company is setting its sights on new investors. According to a report from Semafor, Jared Birchall, the manager for Elon Musk's family office "reached out to potential investors this week."
Birchall is apparently offering shares of Twitter to investors for the price of $54.20 a piece, Semafor reported. That's the same price that Musk paid with his $44 billion takeover of the company in October.
Since then, he's made a slew of changes like revamping Twitter Blue, the platform's subscription tier. He's laid off significant numbers of workers and is considering not paying severance, according to the New York Times. He's tried to impose strict guidelines on working from the office.
In early December, Musk even erected bedrooms in the company's San Francisco headquarters, seemingly backing his plan to introduce a more "hardcore" culture at Twitter that employees should be working long into the night.
Users are leaving in the platform in droves. Key advertisers are disappearing. And the bills are piling up.
Now, the company is setting its sights on new investors. According to a report from Semafor, Jared Birchall, the manager for Elon Musk's family office "reached out to potential investors this week."
Birchall is apparently offering shares of Twitter to investors for the price of $54.20 a piece, Semafor reported. That's the same price that Musk paid with his $44 billion takeover of the company in October.
Since then, he's made a slew of changes like revamping Twitter Blue, the platform's subscription tier. He's laid off significant numbers of workers and is considering not paying severance, according to the New York Times. He's tried to impose strict guidelines on working from the office.
In early December, Musk even erected bedrooms in the company's San Francisco headquarters, seemingly backing his plan to introduce a more "hardcore" culture at Twitter that employees should be working long into the night.
jack
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LOL IKR? In the meantime he's now handing up a bunch of "mail in ballots" that he says invalidate the poll.
Whatever. He's turning himself into a joke.
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And now you know.
www.dailysignal.com
FBI Pressured Twitter Before Hunter Biden Censorship, Documents Reveal
The latest installment of the Twitter Files suggests that the FBI was the real driving force behind suppression of the Hunter Biden story.
www.dailysignal.com
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Depending on what you choose to believe -- or, rather, disbelieve -- there could never be any proof.
The FBI could issue an official confession, and those who are determined to believe that the agency which firebombed a compound full of children are still perfect angels would insist that the confession was faked.
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My point was presented by reporting. Reporting which you dismiss because it isn't "proof." Which, of course, nothing short of an explicit, official confession of wrongdoing ever would be, in the eyes of those who refuse to accept the possibility that an agency which ran defense for a sniper who shot a woman in the head while she was "armed"... with an infant... could ever be just maaaaybe a little bit corrupt.
jack
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I didn't dismiss anything. Facts are important. Why did the FBI have the laptop for two years and do nothing about it? Why did they return it to Mac Isaac (I didnt even know they did that) who then gave it to Guiliani? WHY DID THEY BREAK THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY? This was a Republican admin that desperately wanted to keep Trump in power supposedly.
Sorry if none of this is making sense to me, because it isn't.
Sorry if none of this is making sense to me, because it isn't.