Under the absolute best case scenario for Singal (that is, that Reed’s allegations are accurate and not made up), he has published direct quotations from a child’s therapy sessions without that child’s consent, after their privacy was egregiously violated by a third party. Anyone who has ever sought mental health care can understand how utterly violative this is. The patient in question has had their privacy grievously violated, first by the clinic staffer who reviewed records, copied info, and shared it, and again by Singal for publishing it.

one of my annoying hobby horses about social media is that the platforms are all actually publishers that have obfuscated that fact by outsourcing the writing to volunteer users and the editing to subcontracted moderators but at the end of the day the CEO is the editor in chief Elon is now the EIC of twitter and he’s acting about how one would expect a redpilled narcissist and inveterate liar to act in such a position. People are gonna waste energy trying to pin him down on what the “rules” are now but there are no rules anymore.