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He believes in freedom of speech until someone tracks his jet, then he is more than ready to use his wealth to pressure them into silence.
by status200 4y ago
He believes in freedom of speech until someone tracks his jet, then he is more than ready to use his wealth to pressure them into silence.
- kjksf 4y agoHow do you equate "freedom of speech" with "publishing Musk's physical location in real time" ? In general we have laws against tracking individuals. What he does seems legal but it doesn't make it good or ethical. FAA didn't create a plane tracking system so that a kid can put this info on a map in real time. It's a legitimate security risk for those planes and people who use them. It's an abuse of the system.
- undersuit 4y agoThe twitter account published the location of the plane using publicly available information. It could have also published the information of one of Virgin Atlantic's plane. In fact it's not even Musk's plane, he just owns the company that owns the plane, Falcon Landing LLC. The twitter account didn't actually know if it was Elon Musk being flown or a bunch of burros being ferried back and forth between US states. >FAA didn't create a plane tracking system so that a kid can put this info on a map in real time. You're right, the FAA made the system open so that anybody could do this, not just this kid.
- Teandw 4y agoYou can fight for freedom of speech while still wanting people to not say things/do things that you feel puts your personal life at risk. Freedom of speech has to come with some caveats or its dangerous as it can be used as a weapon.