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So let me list Musk’s abhorrent censorship actions:

-Bans people impersonating him like Kathy Griffin

-Bans people who share internal communications at Twitter

-Bans people who post sensitive information like his address, phone number or private jet location

-Bans a few militant Antifa groups

Is there anything else? Because I’m not seeing the abhorrent part, especially compared to pre-Musk censorship.

Why should I be outraged now? When epidemiologists were censored leading to unvaccinated being banned from society last winter, no one made a fuss about it.

https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-reverses-censorship-andrew...

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That's an incredibly biased view of Musk's actions

>-Bans a few militant Antifa groups

And this just smells ideologically motivated on your part, frankly

> sensitive information like his address, phone number or private jet location

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong...

I appreciate that I'm not the only one out there with this song branded permanently into my psyche.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZci3eOafK0

Yeah, but IMO it's not that, that's all fairly easy to get at, it's this:

> Bans people who share internal communications at Twitter

Which I expect is covered by an NDA between the leaker and the company blocking the sharing of the leaks. I'd expect the same if someone at, purely for the sake of example, Blizzard started sharing internal content via World of Warcraft public chat.

I think my joke's been misinterpreted. Sharing personal information isn't the thing that different, it's the private jet location that's different from address and phone number. Having your private jet tracked is not a problem that a normal person can have. I don't think there's a reasonable expectation of privacy in regards to that.

Oh! Well, in that case yes, I totally agree. And I did indeed misinterpret.

Yeah one of the things on my list almost ruined my life last winter.

As in lose my job and be unable to socialize because I need a vaccine passport to enter a restaurant. All based on fraudulent lies that I couldn’t expose because I was censored.

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