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Obviously he followed the car from the airport — how else would he identify the car with Elon Musk’s kid?

dtjb 4y ago
we don't know anything about the "stalker" other than what Musk said. Musk has been caught lying about his children in the past [1] to justify his Twitter policy swings. I'd like to think he wouldn't stoop so low as to use his kid like that, but the truth is we don't know. Now journalists are being banned for copying word-for-word the police response stating that "no police report was filed" over the stalker incident. [1] https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696 https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696
- monksy 4y ago
  It's like journalists don't believe that anything will happen to them. The faster they divest from twitter the better.
  - dtjb 4y ago
    That would be a loss for twitter IMO. I know it's being remade into ground zero for culture war discourse, but there's nowhere else online like Twitter when it comes to breaking news and developing situations. Journalists and reporters sharing information as it's verified real time. When something was going down, you went to twitter.
    - KerrAvon 4y ago
      and now Mastodon is the same thing, but decentralized and not owned by a single point of human failure.
    - midoridensha 4y ago
      Well this should be a good lesson in why not to trust something that supposedly is in the public interest to a private company that can easily be bought up by some billionaire with emotional problems.
    - maxbond 4y ago
      Twitter was lost the day Musk carried that sink into the building. I agree that it was an important cultural institution, but I don't think there's anything that can be done to save it. The faster we let it fall, the faster we can develop alternatives. Twitter is dead. Long live the Fediverse.
      - drstewart 4y ago
        No one cares about the fediverse.
        rvz 4y ago
        Only the tiny minority of techies screaming about the 'fediverse' care. There is little interest with the majority of non-techies 200M+ that care to use it daily, let alone sign up; hence why they still use Twitter. Federated social networks such as Mastodon are a solution in search of a problem, and it always has been like that for years.
        maxbond 4y ago
        I hear a lot of people talking about the Fediverse of many different technical backgrounds. It's true it would take a huge event to get non-technical people interested in the Fediverse - but that's exactly what I'm seeing. They're not a solution in search of a problem. They're a solution a small, dedicated group of people have cared deeply about, but most people have ignored. But people have been unsatisfied with the centralized aspects of social media for a long time. They're not stupid; they see the way the algorithms are designed for engagement, and the toxicity that causes. They see how fragile it is that someone like Musk can just swoop in and sabotage the platform. Network effects have made it difficult to adopt a decentralized solution. Well - lots of communities are looking for a home they won't have to leave for the same reason they did before. That's creating network effects in the opposite direction. If you'd said this to me a few weeks ago I'd have been inclined to believe it. But things are in flux. Maybe the Fediverse won't take off, but it has a very really shot right now.
        4y ago
- hcurtiss 4y ago
  The kid dying in his arms or his wife’s beside him — I feel like this is not a good one to be screaming “liar.”
- sprkwd 4y ago
  There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests.
jjulius 4y ago
>Obviously... We know too little about this incident to say that that is obvious at this point.
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Bud 4y ago
Please explain how the car in question was found in the first place, at an airport the size of a small city. Flight-tracking data will have been of absolutely zero help in doing that, of course.

dtjb 4y ago

we don't know anything about the "stalker" other than what Musk said. Musk has been caught lying about his children in the past [1] to justify his Twitter policy swings. I'd like to think he wouldn't stoop so low as to use his kid like that, but the truth is we don't know. Now journalists are being banned for copying word-for-word the police response stating that "no police report was filed" over the stalker incident. [1] https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696 https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696

monksy 4y ago
It's like journalists don't believe that anything will happen to them. The faster they divest from twitter the better.
- dtjb 4y ago
  That would be a loss for twitter IMO. I know it's being remade into ground zero for culture war discourse, but there's nowhere else online like Twitter when it comes to breaking news and developing situations. Journalists and reporters sharing information as it's verified real time. When something was going down, you went to twitter.
  - KerrAvon 4y ago
    and now Mastodon is the same thing, but decentralized and not owned by a single point of human failure.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    Well this should be a good lesson in why not to trust something that supposedly is in the public interest to a private company that can easily be bought up by some billionaire with emotional problems.
  - maxbond 4y ago
    Twitter was lost the day Musk carried that sink into the building. I agree that it was an important cultural institution, but I don't think there's anything that can be done to save it. The faster we let it fall, the faster we can develop alternatives. Twitter is dead. Long live the Fediverse.
    - drstewart 4y ago
      No one cares about the fediverse.
      - rvz 4y ago
        Only the tiny minority of techies screaming about the 'fediverse' care. There is little interest with the majority of non-techies 200M+ that care to use it daily, let alone sign up; hence why they still use Twitter. Federated social networks such as Mastodon are a solution in search of a problem, and it always has been like that for years.
        maxbond 4y ago
        I hear a lot of people talking about the Fediverse of many different technical backgrounds. It's true it would take a huge event to get non-technical people interested in the Fediverse - but that's exactly what I'm seeing. They're not a solution in search of a problem. They're a solution a small, dedicated group of people have cared deeply about, but most people have ignored. But people have been unsatisfied with the centralized aspects of social media for a long time. They're not stupid; they see the way the algorithms are designed for engagement, and the toxicity that causes. They see how fragile it is that someone like Musk can just swoop in and sabotage the platform. Network effects have made it difficult to adopt a decentralized solution. Well - lots of communities are looking for a home they won't have to leave for the same reason they did before. That's creating network effects in the opposite direction. If you'd said this to me a few weeks ago I'd have been inclined to believe it. But things are in flux. Maybe the Fediverse won't take off, but it has a very really shot right now.
        4y ago
hcurtiss 4y ago
The kid dying in his arms or his wife’s beside him — I feel like this is not a good one to be screaming “liar.”
sprkwd 4y ago
There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests.

jjulius 4y ago

>Obviously... We know too little about this incident to say that that is obvious at this point.

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Bud 4y ago

Please explain how the car in question was found in the first place, at an airport the size of a small city. Flight-tracking data will have been of absolutely zero help in doing that, of course.