Anyone recognize this person or car? pic.twitter.com/2U0Eyx7iwl

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022

Elon Musk, King of Twitter, this week banned people that doxed his location and sent someone to harass him when he was with his small kid.

There is a guy who tracks Elon’s movements everywhere he goes. He’s been doing it forever, and Elon said when he took over the site he wasn’t going to ban him.

My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022

Apparently, Elon had finally had enough when some guy came at him in public, so he banned the guy.

Journalists were linking to the dox and he banned them as well. He then made a rule that journalists are no longer allowed to dox people, which basically destroys the career of entire segments of the news media.

Shockingly, Elon does not know how to spell “doxing.”

Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.

Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022

At least he knows that mainstream media “journalists” should always be referred to as “journalists” (with quotation marks). They call themselves journalists but they’re really just system cops.

Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

It’s not clear if he was planning to permanently ban them or just punish them with a temporary ban, but he announced he’s not going to permanently ban them, and did multiple polls about when they should be reinstated.

If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

He already said – from the beginning, actually – that no one will be permanently banned unless they break the law.

We’re still trying to figure out how this all works, actually. But he seems to have violated that rule in the case of Alex Jones. Everyone else who was banned under the terrorist rule of Vagina and Yolo (including me) is having their accounts restored. (For anyone who doesn’t use Twitter: that is really happening, by the way. I thought it would, then when he started talking to the ADL after the purchase I thought it wouldn’t. But it is happening. Everyone is coming back home to Twitter.)

On Friday, Elon showed up in a Twitter Space with a bunch of journalists and reiterated that he’s not going to allow journalists to dox either.

BREAKING: @ElonMusk just hopped on Spaces with a group of journalists and informed them the same doxxing rules apply to them and they aren’t special pic.twitter.com/SaYFWxZVpJ

— Pillow Time Poso