Until you see some actual evidence, Elon cannot take actions to protect his family? That is ridiculous.
Even without this incident, having a twitter tracking your real-time movement already presents danger to your family. Even you yourself wouldn't like it.
> And if I were a billionaire and worried about parties tracking my vehicle in real time I would be up front about it rather than to make grand statements about absolute free speech and leaving that particular account up.
What does this have to do with his family's safety?
Apparently, he prioritizes family's safety over being called hypocrisy. This is a good thing, right? We all agree that Elon is taking a good action, right?
It's strange that you argue the other way around. It's like you want people to not prioritize family's safety. Weird.
> I also would not use easily identifiable vehicles such as private aircraft.
Ah the victim blaming. it's not the stalker's fault. It's the victim's fault that chooses the type of the vehicle.
You ignored half of his comment which completely negates your entire spiel.
It was 'that is my position', not 'he is not allowed to protect his family', and 'if I were him and wanted to protect my family' followed by doing everything you are arguing for except the being two-faced and disingenuous about the reasoning.
Please engage with good faith or just state outright that you don't care what the other person says and state your argument without quoting them as if you are responding to what they intended instead of what allows you to make a point.
> This is a good thing, right? We all agree that Elon is taking a good action, right?
For Musk the father, if what he’s saying is true then that’s good for him.
For me the internet denizen, this is not good. Because if we are to take Musk’s premise that Twitter was run by the whims of partisans as true, it is now the case that Twitter is run by the whims of Musk. This is not what he promised when he bought Twitter.
It might turn out fine if Musk has learned a tough lesson about the balance of privacy and safety on social media. Maybe he learned that “free speech absolutism” is a fantasy and not a tenable philosophy. If this leads to fairer, more balanced, and well thought out content moderation policies, that would be great.
But if the end result here is that we get more capricious and arbitrary policies that form to the contours of only Musk’s personal experiences, then no, that’s not good for anyone.
It seems to me that the rule at Twitter now is that Musk will take swift action to curb billionaire problems like private jet tracking, but will do nothing to curb (and even encourages) other forms of harassment like homophobia and transphobia on the platform. This is why people are so mad.
Except... Half of us have no recourse, and governments get carte blanche to violate this type of tracking anyway. Sweeney should just take it to Mastodon.
Until you see some actual evidence, Elon cannot take actions to protect his family? That is ridiculous.
Even without this incident, having a twitter tracking your real-time movement already presents danger to your family. Even you yourself wouldn't like it.
> And if I were a billionaire and worried about parties tracking my vehicle in real time I would be up front about it rather than to make grand statements about absolute free speech and leaving that particular account up.
What does this have to do with his family's safety?
Apparently, he prioritizes family's safety over being called hypocrisy. This is a good thing, right? We all agree that Elon is taking a good action, right?
It's strange that you argue the other way around. It's like you want people to not prioritize family's safety. Weird.
> I also would not use easily identifiable vehicles such as private aircraft.
Ah the victim blaming. it's not the stalker's fault. It's the victim's fault that chooses the type of the vehicle.