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If they are powerful, there certainly and obviously is.

Everyone on the planet has a legitimate interest in knowing what Elon will do next with his obscene wealth. Thus, talking about where he is must be protected as free speech.

Whether you agree with that or not, until very recently, Elon suggested that he did.



> If they are powerful, there certainly and obviously is.

Where is the real-time data on Putin & Biden's whereabouts then?

> what Elon will do next with his obscene wealth

What does that has anything to do with his location?

> free speech

Talking about and inviting others to do harm could very well be free speech, but that doesn't make the ones doing it less of a--holes.


That the public has an interest in data, sadly does not guarantee that the data is available.

His location is a hint to who he's talking to and what he's doing.

There has been no invitations to do harm. It's not about who's an asshole or not - it's about who's a hypocrite on free speech.


The people who are pretending to care about free speech now by supporting doxxing efforts are way more hypocritical than anyone who supports free speech making an exception for doxxing efforts.


There were actually Twitter accounts that monitored the jets of both of those too.




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