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Posting live updates of people's locations is A-OK now, then? open season on politicians and actors and just people we don't like generally? Citizen journalism
by h2odragon 4y ago
Posting live updates of people's locations is A-OK now, then? open season on politicians and actors and just people we don't like generally? Citizen journalism tot he point of live video of every moment that can be watched?
just wondering... it's not like these debates haven't been had before. It's just that the forums involved the past weren't "the (only) public square" and the participants weren't so convinced of their own importance.
- mikece 4y agoI imagine posting live updates on someone would have to come close to the textbook definition of stalking, and that people doing it -- journalists or otherwise -- could be liable for aiding and abetting harm that comes to the one whose updates are being posted if someone committed violence based on that information. I don't see how this would be different than someone tweeting where Jane Smith is every time she moves and then Jane Smith's ex, following those tweets, murders her. I also suspect, based on the physical attack following the posting of the movements of Elon's jet, the FAA will grant permission for filing sealed or secret flight plans so that no flight tracking apps will know when N628TS is departing or where it's going.
- likeclockwork 4y agoThere was no physical attack.
- Zigurd 4y agoThe journalists were banned after they discovered the time was not proximate to any flights, and the location wasn't near an airport. Elon was caught in a lie. Subsequently he displayed juvenile behavior, shutting down Spaces for the entire product and banning real journalists from important publications. Furthermore, N628TS only appeared on crowdsourced plane trackers. Nobody, not even Area-51 workers, fly without a tail number visible.
- themitigating 4y agoHow were these journalists associated with ElonJet?