Well, in the next hour, a journalist is going to get banned, a campaign will come up to get them unbanned, and Twitter will change the rule. We'll be fine.

More likely is Elon will post something that gives someone's location away and then they'll adjust it.

why adjust when they can just enforce the rules subjectively at will

I think because appearances matter. Not only does he want to enforce his will, he wants to do it in such a way that he comes off looking good.

"this is fine"

"Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted."

According to these rules journalists are no longer allowed to publicly share information about Elon going to visit his Saudi creditors since it's wont be public event. Nice!

That's the one case where I can see this as a good thing (for the journalists). Just keep them away from the embassy...

They can, just not in real time.

"Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy."

Yes. According to Twitter policy there must be "24 hours" delay since it's only way to follow "not same-day" rule. This will obviously makes Twitter useless for any news reporting.

Could you give an example from today's news which would be in violation of that rule?

Any social network post from celebrity X who mention they just seen celebrity Y on a private party of celebrity Z? According to Elon this information about him cannot be shared on Twitter.

PS: I'm not exactly into US celebrities, but I'm very much into stalking Putin and his cronies using OSINT reporting on Twitter. Now anyone who publicly share their movements can be banned.

This Tweet from a few days ago about a former NFL coach visiting Stanford would seem to violate it;

https://twitter.com/ByPatForde/status/1600993384851652608

Maybe not a technical violation since it said "earlier today" -- but a random student tweeting the same right after seeing him on campus would get the account suspended?

A fan saying "OMG, just saw Kanye at the Whole Foods in El Segundo" would be worthy of suspension?

News stories about various public officials secret trips for negotiations would be worthy of suspension?

Doesn't seem very "free speechey" to me.

Or just posting that you ran into your good friend Bob this morning and roughly where would presumptively be in violation, Twitter would have no way of knowing whether Bob consented for that information to be published.

Before coalition talks in Germany there are frequently news about politicians visiting this party headquarter or that party headquarter, practically always in real time. All of those are usually not public events. There are no press conferences, nobody in the press is told about those visits (except if it leaks).

Police shootings.

> Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy.

Seems like the rules would allow journalists to share a story reporting if Elon Musk visited any Saudi creditors, but if they include the location of the meeting in their reporting then they wouldn’t be allowed to post it on Twitter until after the meeting.

Thank god artists can still post their set times, was worried about freedom of speech for a second there.

The new Twitter is just Elon being offended and abusing his power, then retweeting and liking single tweets that validate his current mood

That is not sufficient. Is getting arrested a "public engagement"? Is appearing as a defendant in court?

Is using a public airport an engagement?

"an arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time."

Important question: does journalism need to be live information?

Journalism without live information is just History.

The point is to be able to affect outcomes.

I mean, I have a hard time finding issues with 24h or 7 days delayed journalism for small news. If you’re covering war, or the government, or something of public utility I can understand a live coverage tho

That’s nonsense.