Not really clear to me how an account tracking movements of his jet leads to someone tailing & jumping on a car he wasn't in. How'd the person choose which car to jump on? From the tweet I'm not even sure it happened at an airport, to me it sounds like it happened in the city proper.
Not sure it even matters, in the US legal system all you need is more money than your opponent and you can win-by-default by dragging things out until they can't fight you anymore
What's the legal basis behind the action? The ElonJet account was simply displaying info that is legally and publicly available, and he has no control over the action of a complete stranger, who could have got the same info from elsewhere.
I think Elon Musk motto has become "Free Speech only if I like it".
What has changed from two weeks ago to now that suddenly this has become an issue? The fact that Elon Musk now perceives he was affected by it. The security threat has not changed whatsoever since the account started tweeting the location of his jet, which btw, is publicly available so any motivated individual would still be able to find it and track it.
It really feels like Elon is just going about things as he personally feels rather than applying a robust ethical and moral framework to his decisions. Not that I expected anything else, but this definitely might feel stressful and awful to this poor guy who iirc is like a 17-18 year old anyway?
The difference between 2 weeks ago was that in his delusional/narcissist mind only a very few "woke extremists" must dislike him since he is the savior of humankind, but after being booed at the Chapelle's show last weekend he's realizing it's more than just a few people.
You're ignoring a few things and trusting him too much:
1) Is ignoring that he asked for demotion of this account before the incident after saying he wasn't going to
2) He often lies about details and reasons for his decisions. Like saying the booing was because of a fight on the show we had video for.
3) There is zero correlation presented so far to this account being related to this attack
4) The ban comes too soon after a policy change without recourse, the account could for instance only post location changes with weeks delay, etc.
TBH, Im ok with limiting tracking of location but this guy is one of the richest man in the world and very public, there is public interest in knowing where he flying those jets to (he can still rent/lease, hide in whatever organisation structure he wants).
The policy is also not clear about what do to on exceptions and will not be equally enforced. "Elon is doing a show right now with dave Chappele at the X arena". Is this a violation? What kind of gray areas can be assumed will depend on how he interprets, etc. It doesn't really matter, it's his playground now, but it's hypocritical for him and he deserves to hear shit for it.
1) Is ignoring that he asked for demotion of this account before the incident after saying he wasn't going to
I am aware he mentioned it was a threat to his safety two weeks ago. Demotion happening a few hours before the announcement of the attack shouldn't be relevant.
2) He often lies about details and reasons for his decisions. Like saying the booing was because of a fight on the show we had video for.
Haven't heard of this, post the video.
> 3) There is zero correlation presented so far to this account being related to this attack
This is true, it's not directly related as far as we know, but people seem to hate Elon for some odd reason and he deserves the same level of privacy your and I do.
> 4) The ban comes too soon after a policy change without recourse, the account could for instance only post location changes with weeks delay, etc.
It was always against ToS to use public data for abusive purposes, the clarification is good. But I actually agree with this point - make the change then give accounts a few days to comply.
> TBH, Im ok with limiting tracking of location but this guy is one of the richest man in the world and very public, there is public interest in knowing where he flying those jets to.
No he deserves the same level of privacy you or I do. Rich people or other people that are disliked don't stop having rights. The delay satisfied the public interest question.
> "He's putting Yoel's life in danger and he knows it," tweeted Alejandra Caraballo, an instructor at Harvard Law School.
This is rather hypocritical of Caraballo, who was called out just a couple of days ago while a witness in a House hearing for his own inciteful tweets, such as this one attacking Supreme Court Justices: "It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public."
In short, Musk made a tweet saying his preferred pronouns are "Prosecute/Fauci". It's sort of an insult to people who use preferred pronouns while also showing he aligns with the people who think it makes sense to subject Fauci to legal action.
Unfortunately Fauci is getting lots of death threats thanks to right-wing media spewing lies about him. One guy is already sentenced to 3 years in prison for it, I wonder how many more crazies will do stupid things because of Elon's tweet and end up in prison just like this guy: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/man-who-made-threats-agai...
Sure but believing someone should be prosecuted is different from facilitating stalking them.
Suppressing all dissent of the left and right because any single nut follows a particular cause would stop any cause from being discussed. Also Fauci did fund gain of function research and it’s reasonable to want to investigate that but that’s besides the point.
Lots of scientists have done gain of function research I am sure then you would like to investigate all of them and not just Fauci?
That will take a while to compile the list. And I assume you really understand what it is. So what is your exact problem with it.
Based on your answers to questions so far I am doubting you even know what it is. Someone just told you it was bad and now you want to draw attention to yourself.
I, and I think probably most people that are aware of it, would like to know why the US funded (not worked on) Gain of Function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Stop trying to turn this into an argument against science rather than an argument in favour of investigating ethical misconduct. It’s transparent, everyone knows you’re doing it, and it’s bot effective.
Most billionaires can afford and can pay for bodyguards with them so this really isn't an issue (unless they are paid extremely low and turn on you)
If you don't want your plane to be tracked, just rent and switch private jets instead of owning one.
This is just Elon getting upset and over exaggerating that he just bans anyone he doesn't like. Very immature.