> Is this ethical? It isn't obvious to me that it's not - I think most people writing on a public site realize their writing is public, and thew fact we see com

> Is this ethical? It isn't obvious to me that it's not - I think most people writing on a public site realize their writing is public, and thew fact we see common warnings about not posting personal information shows that is true. It's not clear it violates privacy expectations either - even if some people don't like it. People are clearly aware of the fact that it's possible to monitor their movements from space, therefore it's not unethical to launch 1,000,000 satellites to continuously monitor all movement on every square inch of the Earth. Somehow I don't think this really follows. The constant mistake I see in these kinds of threads is thinking that "scale" in and of itself has no bearing on ethical arguments. This is obviously false; 1 person pissing in a local river is not a big deal, millions of people doing it is a problem, and genocide is clearly worse than murder.