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Naturally, I am not a lawyer, I am a dog on the internet. But some things have the smell of having been critically analysed by lawyers, and this just... doesn't somehow.

It seems if I post a photo of a sports event that makes the stadium location obvious, that would now fall foul of this policy? Likewise a concert, or a politician at a publicly recognisable residence

Purely personally, one of my most memorable times on twitter was the tens of thousands of people watching a British politician fly home on a long haul flight to get fired - quite sad that we won't get to experience the sheer bizarre feeling of that again https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/more-than-20-000-pe...

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It’s almost like this whole rule was made up after the fact with little to no effort put into how it would be enforced when the sun rises the next day…

But I think that’s just the new reality. Moving forward, Twitter is whatever Elon says it is whenever he says it is.

“Apply heavy visibility filtering”

“Shit, someone decided to fully suspend the account and everyone noticed.. people are upset too”

“Let’s unban him really quick while we figure this out”

Only a couple of hours pass and they re-ban the account and suddenly have a new policy.

This is basically the plot of the Ukraine invasion. Pivot, move, take plan C that was made up hastily, and always pretend like it was your goal.

The new reality is the same as the old reality. Twitter executives have been arbitrarily banning content based on their own whims and political biases for years, regardless of the written terms of service. It's just that there's a different executive in charge now with a different set of made-up rules. I'm baffled as to why anyone would care. The whole thing has long been a joke, nothing more than a platform for trolling.

The only point of this update was to give permission to Elon to suspend the jet tracking account.

Couldn't @elonjet delay their posts by 24 hours to comply?

Update: yep, https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1603168950489350144

The account is back, and this seems to be the condition required.

So could they just post a link to their website everytime the jet's moving without including the coordinates in the twitter post?

It's been banned again.

They could do lots of things to comply with the new and arbitrary terms. But why? This is public info that's on many different sites and literally broadcast to anyone with a radio.

And now they can still post live data to mastodon. I hope they will.

As I said on another thread, man, I wouldn't want to be in the team of lawyers charged with writing this rule.

"You have 24 hours. You have to write some rules that make my private jet's flights that are public information available on a public website in real time disallowed, while also making Hunter Biden's hacked nudes allowed. Go."

As I read it, any "live" post of any person in any public place without their permission falls afoul of the rule.

So a simple photo of a busy public street would be banned.

Twitter banned posting images of people against their will in December of last year. This sounds like a natural extension of that. There are caveats you can read about like incidental people in a crowd and I'm sure those caveats apply as well

https://theconversation.com/twitter-has-banned-posting-of-im...

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