It's not just about the aircraft.
To conflate real-time stalking with free speech is pretty absurd. He’s not even speaking in hypotheticals —- a nutcase intercepted his car.
Nor is there any way of knowing whether Musk or his family are on board any of these aircraft, as manifests aren't published.
He's not allowing posting the flight details with a delay either. That was a temporary rule change and rapidly walked back.
This is false and easily verified for yourself.
ElonJet's last mention of N628TS before the attack was to report it landing at LAX the day before.[0] Nothing on the day of the claimed attack.
[0] https://www.facebook.com/ElonJet/posts/pfbid02Ldh5x93kQe6E6E...
It must be somewhere but can't find it on Bellincat's site. Do you have some pointer?
I don’t have “talking points”. I respected gay people before a close family member came out. I understand that many people in the world have lived experiences that I never will. And I try not to shoot my mouth off, and when I do, I apologize.
But that’s kind of the opposite of what’s going on here, right? He didn’t care that his new policies endangered people until it happened to him. Only being capable of empathy for yourself is not really something to celebrate.
Separately, the nutcase who intercepted his car did so miles away from any airport and there’s no evidence or police report to suggest that the flight details were what allowed this to happen.
I’ll also throw out there that he has a security detail for his family, which makes sense if you’re (one of) the richest people in the world, regardless of whether someone tweets your jet’s location. He’s actually far better equipped to deal with stalkers than the typical public figure. Doesn’t make it okay, of course, but look at what happened to Paul pelosi - the spouse of the 3rd in line to succeed the presidency gets his head smashed in - where’s the outrage over how their location was found?
Musk only had jokes for that one. For all the hue and cry about Twitter's "partisanship" there really is no principle here, it's only about who holds the gavel.
As to publicly available information... if it's so readily available, what is the point of (re)publishing live data if not to cause harm?
The point stands though... if the intent is anything other than harm, it doesn't need to be real time. If the intent is to show carbon use, than a monthly report would be more than enough.
This is already public information, as it is for all other aircraft. Delaying the Twitter feed by 24 hours makes no sense.
That doesn't make it okay to push your address out to Twitter either.
This appears to be unrelated to any actual tracking of his plane. He was so concerned for his safety that he never filed any police report, instead asking Twitter to dox the assailant.
Moreover, he banned the elonjet account, and then banned anyone who linked to said account, which included journalists reporting on the ban. He then bailed out of a call when said journalists asked how linking to an account that is suspended and shows nothing can be considered doxxing. He also held a poll on when the elonjet account should be unbanned, redid the poll when "now" when, and still hasn't done anything when "now" won again.
He's done something. He's banned other journalists who simply asked him a question while @tagging banned journalists. After the poll.
Given that there were several press reports about this at the time it happened, how was it secret?
Same. But neither do I think that people shouldn't be allowed to do it if they want to.
Who took him seriously about free speech? This week it as “doxxing” last week it was Andy NGO’s accusations.