3mo ago

Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it

arstechnica.com Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it

X says it suspended reporter for “posting unredacted personal information.”…

Elon Musk's X is blocking links to the JD Vance "dossier" containing the Trump campaign's research on the vice presidential nominee. X also suspended Ken Klippenstein, the journalist who published the dossier that apparently comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

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arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/09/musks-x-blocks-links-to-jd-vance-dossier-and-suspends-journalist-who-posted-it/

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Classic free speech move

Can someone link to it here, since this site's not controlled by a neonazi?
- https://www.kenklippenstein.com/api/v1/file/fc39e78d-f510-4918-935b-95701be97310.pdf
  
  I'm actually surprised at how benign this report is. It's all stuff we more or less already know. I wanted to see the couches.
  
  Just to add, link to the author's article here https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier
  
  Thanks!
- Or a summary would be nice.

Sort of funny when you consider all of the information in the dossier was public information already...

For profit speech absolutist.

I'm so fucking glad he bought the site to protect free speech...

What a unwavering free speech absolutist that he claims he is.

At this point he's just pushing potential users away. I wonder if he's given up on it and is just holding on to it until the election is completed.
- At this point it's starting to look like he's intentionally tanking Twitter to remove a major platform where people can organize.
  He's making moves intentionally stupid that destroy the Twitter brand that was built up.
  
  People have been saying this since he was forced into buying the platform. I initially thought that could be true too.
  As time has gone on, however, I'm starting to think he's just that incompetent
  
  He might be doing both, but mostly with a dash of the fact he’s a spoiled self-destructive moron. So if he can’t have it, no one can.
  
  Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to the stupidity, hate, and pig-headedness of an exceptionally fragile billionaire.
  
  It’s not some brilliant 4D chess he’s just a fucking idiot nepo baby.
- It's 7-D chess. He wants to use x-Twitter as a tax wire-off.
- Who even uses Twitter anymore? I stopped browsing it more than a year ago after they borked the public API so it's not usable any longer. I'm not signing up just to browse tweets, F that.