With Twitter, it's been demonstrated that what Musk does, does not follow what Musk says. There's nothing to reconcile here. The new policy is very clear and leaves no wiggle room for the occasional link.
Much like when Elon said he wouldn't ban Sweeney and that he's a free speech absolutionist, followed by him:
- banning Sweeney without justification
- unbanning some of Sweeney's accounts
- banning linking to Sweeney's other social media
- putting links to any mastodon instances behind a warning
- rolling out new policy to justify banning Sweeney and links to his other social media
- walking back the permabanns after a bunch of journalists get roped up in the Elonjet fallout
- this new policy, presumably to justify the continued banning of Sweeney. You can put other reasoning here, like making it harder to migrate off Twitter. Other commentors mentioned in previous discussions that linking your mastodon in your profile allowed mastodon users to more easily find/recreate their Twitter network automatically.
That’s not really my job. If you want him to resolve the discrepancy between what he Tweeted and what’s on the policy page, you should ask him.
I do agree that there’s a discrepancy there, to be clear, and I think the policy is ridiculous no matter how you read it. I also think it’s bad that Musk is shooting from the hip in confusing ways.
Given that PG got suspended, the weight of evidence seems to be that my interpretation is correct. If Elon clarifies, I’ll certainly edit!
You seem to be assuming that it has to be policy, and that it has to have been justified by policy - instead of just a capricious exercise of power by someone with a very thin skin currently losing a ton of money on the social media site the court made him buy because he was trolling.
The weight of evidence is against Elon but this is not a court of law. He can ban everyone and probably will soon. Remember this post.. first person to say he will ban everyone at some point soon.
It seems like only an idiot would bother read Musk's TOS. Twitter will just ban anyone for whatever reason and it's your problem to bother appeal. I honestly don't see why anyone would bother. Musk has turned the entire site into nothing more than a circus. I certainly don't need this bullshit drama in my life and I don't know why anyone would.
