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This has the nice "benefit" of also making Twitter useless as a real-time organizing tool ("We're at City Hall demonstrating against the new ordinance. Come on down.").

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That's not what the policy says, it's about sharing someone else's location without their permission or when they don't want you to

Edit: I can see a grey area for "{$speaker,$performer} now taking the stage at {$conference,$music_festival}". Particularly if its somehow a surprise

Edit 2: Imo as written it's not a good policy because there are probably going to be lots of harmless things in technical violation that get ignored, so it turns into a "we'll enforce it if we don't like you or what you're saying" rule

> That's not what the policy says, it's about sharing someone else's location without their permission or when they don't want you to

"I'm at City Hall demonstrating. There may or may not be other people because if there were, I haven't asked them if I can share their location or not. Come down and find out in person!"

Ok, you're too clever for me

Ironically, if Elon had simply put "no one is allowed to track the private jets of my friends and I on my platform" into the rules and policies it would be a lot more straightforward. I'm not sure there's a word or phrase in English for "making something worse while trying to save embarrassment", but Elon is defining it.

Perhaps we should call it the Musk corollary to the Streisand effect.

musk·ing (verb) Making something worse while trying to save embarrassment