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Simple question: do you think people's location should tracked and publicized? The answer is always no.

It's also against Twitter terms of service.

It's called a wedge. You are being forced into criticizing him for doing something that you actually want him to be doing.

Your only way out is to argue that doxing is okay for billionaires or something like that - which is basically saying "if I make enough money I think its okay to be personally harassed and doxed" - which is really tough to believe.

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I do agree that tracking people and publicizing their location against their will should be banned. This is clear and obvious to me.

But, and this is a big but, Musk specifically used this account as an example of his commitment to free speech.

So if Elon Musk gets splashback on this, there's no one to blame but Elon Musk.

The people criticizing him are not upset that he is not upholding free speech commitments though. They are the ones that don't want free speech. They want more moderation and want stricter rules and policies, and more safety.

So here is a policy that everyone agrees with and increases safety on the platform. And they are not happy. It's such a funny situation.

It really demonstrates how tribal everything is. No one deals with individual events and circumstances. If you look at all the comments, there is a finite number of ways to evaluate this situation...and its seems like no one evaluates it critically. You could predict what each person will say. In fact, maybe I will try this in ChatGPT.

> They are the ones that don't want free speech

Content moderation and free speech are not mutually exclusive. Absolute free speech is not the only kind of free speech, nor is the definition of "free speech" the same globally.

> So here is a policy that everyone agrees with and increases safety on the platform. And they are not happy. It's such a funny situation.

Not upset, just confused that a free speech absolutist is banning people for exercising the version of free speech that he claims to be protecting.

I think the problem is the whole it's apparently ok to post people's location as long as it isn't Elon or maybe some other rich person. The problem is determining if you are posting for good or to incite violence.

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