If you truly want to irritate someone who believes they are exceptional, you should tell them they are not special and then act accordingly.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, discovered this in response to his announcement to a group of journalists during an early morning Twitter Spaces call that they were subject to the same laws against doxing as any other Twitter user.
“As I’m sure anyone who has been doxed would agree, you know, showing real-time information about someone’s location is inappropriate and I think everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them,” Musk said.
“And so there is not going to be any distinction in the future between them journalists, so-called journalists, and regular people. Everyone’s going to be treated the same,” he explained. “You’re not special because you’re a journalist. You’re just a Twitter — you’re a citizen. So no special treatment. You dox, you get suspended. End of story.”
Those who believed there was a simple method to circumvent the restriction also got a rude awakening.
“And ban evasion, or trying to be clever about it, like ‘oh, I posted a link to the real-time information’ is obviously — that is obviously simply trying to evade the meaning,” Musk continued. “That is — there’s no difference from actually showing real-time information.”
The Human Events senior editor, Jack Posobiec, tweeted the audio clip.
BREAKING: @ElonMusk just hopped on Spaces with a group of journalists and informed them the same doxxing rules apply to them and they aren’t special pic.twitter.com/SaYFWxZVpJ
— Pillow Purge Poso🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 16, 2022
And he was evidently in support of Musk’s stance on the issue.
BREAKING: @ElonMusk just hopped on Spaces with a group of journalists and informed them the same doxxing rules apply to them and they aren’t special pic.twitter.com/SaYFWxZVpJ
— Pillow Purge Poso🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 16, 2022
Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, one of the most prominent accounts returned to Twitter following Musk’s takeover, seems to concur.
If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
After Musk’s tweet on Wednesday, the Spaces event was reportedly set to clarify the regulations explicitly to media.
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.
Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
More on this story via The Western Journal:
Musk, who has recently claimed that he lives under a constant, credible threat of assassination attempts because of the changes he’s brought to the social media giant, experienced what appeared to be a stalking event in his own family this week.
Twitter owner Elon Musk used the social media platform on Wednesday night to ask his followers for help identifying a person who was allegedly stalking a car carrying his young son, X Æ A-Xii, or as Musk calls him for short, “X.” CONTINUE READING…