> People are acting like Musk changed course for no reason

I'm not sure that's the case. I think many people, myself included, assumed Musk's course was always "just do what's best for me." So he's really just holding to that.

You should give people in your life the benefit of the doubt, but large corporations and billionaires usually found success by acting in their own interest so they will just keep on doing that.

Like what? Musk, the self-proclaimed free speech absolutionist, said he removed most policies and whatnot.

Nothing unusual on the FB account

https://m.facebook.com/ElonJet/

Steel manning really only works if you can assume the other person continues to argue in good faith. If the other person keeps moving the goalposts and demanding you construct a strong argument for their behavior they're just being abusive and I would suggest the best course of action is to leave.

Why does anyone care about alternative "narratives"? Are there any other facts that one might like to introduce? Not alternative facts, things that actually happened.

He literally just unbanned an account that tried to run a coup on the federal government and yet an account that shows where his jet is is dangerous?

Which is it? Because it seems like "I don't like it" is the new justification for bans and "I agree with it" is the new justification for unblocking accounts.

Here's my best guess: Musk lives in a bubble of yes men 24x7, except Sunday night he was on stage with Chapelle getting slapped in the face by over 10,000 people who clearly didn't like him. Probably a defining moment in his life that shook him to the core and genuinely scared him.

If you respond to the reporting of non-editorialized, objective fact with the question "Is there an alternative narrative?", I think it is time to check your own biases.

It’s an automated account that only makes one type of post lol

"ElonJet is Now Suspended" is the narrative.

If there is the only people that can say as such are Twitter and/or Musk himself. So far we’ve heard nothing.

I think you have to ask yourself which of the following is more likely:

1. @elonjet suddenly started to engage in some extremist/TOS-breaking behaviour

2. Elon Musk changed his mind

Given that #2 has happened a few times already, I think that's a pretty reasonable assumption.

He is definitely changing course here (he has publicly stated he wouldn’t squash this account) but my idea is, one of his peons is enforcing some policy about automated scripts controlling accounts. Has anyone read the TOS or seen what has changed?

Free speech is subject to rules?

Because Twitter had rules and they enforced those rules which led to bans/suspensions...and people were upset about that on free speech grounds.

Yeah, maybe Twitter instituted a new rule (not public) that you can't track Elon Musk's flight patterns.

Follow the rules, people.

If there was nobody would know about it because it literally just happened! This is one of the reasons I always flag these "breaking ragebait controversy" Twitter threads - even if someone's curious and genuinely wants to understand an issue in its full context, they can't. The only options right now are to wait for more information or get mad based on incomplete information.

I mean, he's openly been saying the level of death threats he's been receiving is exceedingly high. Seems like it could just be for security.

I am rarely on twitter (just reading financial macro discussions, for which twitter seems to be a center of excellence), so probably have skewed priors. That said, skimming this information I see nothing particularly bad in banning the account that posted screenshots of internal confidential discussions.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the freedom of speech. It is related to breaking the promise (made when joining any company as an employee) not to divulge confidential information. This is a restriction on the freedom of speech that one knowingly agrees to when joining the company.

If I knowingly posted sensitive internal discussions from my employer I would be kicked out. Or worse: if I worked in a hospital and shared some sensitive pictures I might be hit with heavy fines or spend time behind bars. My 2c.

Of course there are other narratives. You're limited by your creativity. Generally the one that involves the least creativity prevails. There's a huge constituency ready to jump on Musk for whatever, and here they are, because it's easy. Until there's facts just stay agnostic...

Are you asking for context and nuance?

What are you, a free thinker? Why not just joint he "Elon man bad" chorus?