If musk decided to ban use of the letter A in tweets, whether PG ran afoul of the rule is not an important factor in the story. What actually happened here isn't really much different. Who cares about adjudicating whether he was in line with the rules or not? The rule is insane and the real story is that Elon is banning colleagues with little thought.
Exactly. It's reminiscent of former East Germany which had all kinds of ridiculous laws and people would occasionally get arrested under them and then others would go 'oh, but he broke the law'. It was impossible not to. They could have made a law against breathing on Sundays and there would be people trying to justify it if you were arrested under that law. Best take a deep breath on Saturday evening I guess.
> If musk decided to ban use of the letter A in tweets, whether PG ran afoul of the rule is not an important factor in the story.
You'd certainly be justified in saying that a rule banning the letter A is ridiculous. But you wouldn't be justified in then going on to claim that a Tweet that contains the letter A doesn't contain it, and downvoting anyone who points out it does.
[Edit: Not just downvoting. Now the post that said they thought it went against the new terms of service has been flagged and removed.]
There's this unsettling trend where once someone thinks they're on the right side, the truth no long matters. Or worse, should be considered verboten if it doesn't back up maximalist claims. And when enough people are doing this, measured discussion is no longer possible.
