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The censorship never went away. It just switched from being at one owner's whim to being at a different owner's whim.

Closed platforms are not and can never be "free speech zones." They answer to their owners, period.

What sort of topics are currently being censored? I haven't seen examples of things being suppressed, but that's also why I'm asking; because I wouldn't have seen things that got suppressed.

Twitter used to be the best tech company in the world at resisting government censorship. They routinely fought governments around the world in court, including in the US. Now they aren't. For example they recently did global censorship at the behest of the Indian government.

Erdoğan opposants accounts and tweets were blocked/suppressed a few weeks before the election (its mostly good now, most accounts are unbanned since the election is over).

Also, crimethInc ban will soon have its birthday (https://fr.crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-bans-crimethi...)

> The reason given for its account suspension, an Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club contributor told The New Republic, was that it had violated Twitter rules against “hateful conduct,” with two tweets cited: a reply to the official account of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“Mugging at gun point,” reads the reply to an unspecified CBP post) and another post with what seems like a retort to the perpetual conservative nonjoke about pronouns, “Every queer a riflethem.”

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/169112/elon-musk-anti-trans-...

Do you live in a box?

Twitter used to fight _actual_ censorship. From governments demanding things be taken down. Musk rolls over like a puppy for China, India, Turkiye, etc...

> that's also why I'm asking; because I wouldn't have seen things that got suppressed

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk. [1]

Before Musk, Twitter's full compliance rate hovered around 50%; since the takeover, it is over 80%.

These countries include China [2] and India [3].

[1] https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...

[2] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitte...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...

"the censorship he disliked"

He claimed to dislike virtually all censorship. A "free speech absolutist" (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600).

That was rapidly shown not to be the case when @ElonJet got snuffed out.

Not to mention that whole period where they were blocking links to Mastodon instances, Instagram, Substack, and Linktree (excuse me, "prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms").

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-li...

> He claimed to dislike virtually all censorship

He claims all sorts of things, the majority of which turn out to be utter nonsense.

Sure. My response is to someone upthread who claimed Musk scoped his criticism to "censorship he disliked"; I'm pointing out he claimed to dislike basically all censorship, making that a meaningless distinction.

I feel like doxing peoples’ location is not acceptable free speech online, just in general

There are still people who think elonsjet was doxxing? Interesting...

> His program uses public data sources including the Federal Aviation Administration, OpenSky Network, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sweeney#Creation_of_fligh...

so if I go dig up your house in public real estate records and put it on blast to thousands of people, you won’t mind?

You mean like https://mcmansionhell.com/ ?

no, I mean tying your identity with your location and giving it potential to go viral. this is what "Elon Jet" was doing. it was taking technically public info and making it extremely easy to consume and re-share. as entertainment. for someone who is very much in the public eye.

you probably aren't famous so maybe you don't understand, but that sounds potentially harmful for someone who is.

> you probably aren't famous so maybe you don't understand, but that sounds potentially harmful for someone who is.

I’m not so convinced. What harm does this account cause?

The most harmful thing that comes to mind is that someone could use the information to plan a murder. The account doesn’t provide this information; it is actually relevant that the information is otherwise available. A person so dedicated to hating this person that they decide to show up with violent intent at a public airport where his jet just landed or is about to take off is pretty damn likely to also be dedicated enough to find this information from other public sources. The account only makes it easier -- it doesn’t enable given that they’re already able -- for someone else to be actually harmful.

This talk of some billionaire gets to fly around in his private jet and the worst thing about it is that everyone else in the world gets to know when and where the jet arrives and departs... it’s just not something I have any sympathy for.

You edited your comment dramatically from what I responded to.

My county has all real estate record available though the web.

When then Ashley Madison scandal hit, people used that to find out if anyone of their neighbors was having an affair.

Still we didn’t close off public access since it’s useful for more than shaming others.

Such info is published by law; public has a right to track potential debris that may rain down on it given malfeasance or technical failures

Elon is free to not own private jets

What’s with coddling a minority that does not care we exist?

And all his mealy mouthed claims about anonymity are laughable. The jet's registered owner is a company with a very Space-y name, whose address is "1 Space Drive" an address which if you put into Google will say "Businesses associated with this address: Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company".

Security through obscurity, it ain't.

He wasn’t using anything not available to the public. I wouldn’t consider this doxxing by any stretch.

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