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"When someone shares an individual’s live location on Twitter, there is an increased risk of physical harm. Moving forward, we’ll remove Tweets that share this information, and accounts dedicated to sharing someone else’s live location will be suspended." - @TwitterSafety
This is every bit as dumb as those "hacked materials" rules that were used as a fig leaf for the Hunter Biden story. "An increased risk of physical harm," is this actually true? How many people have been hurt because someone saw their live location on twitter? Oh, I'm sure it's inconvenient to celebrities to have their location constantly reported on, but is this a non-negligible safety threat? Did anyone think about how many cool use-cases for Twitter a rule like this breaks? I'm sure SBF didn't consent to having his location in Bahamas court (and jail) shared live to the world, too fucking bad. Ooops, better not share that pic you took out in public for 24 hours. It might reveal someone's live location.
Twitter is done. It's over. I take no pleasure in reporting this. I had high hopes for ElonTwitter. There's no reason to trust that Twitter is committed to free and open news and discussion if basic elements of reality (the physical location of individual persons) are not allowed. It is especially concerning that this seems to be a direct reaction to Elon not liking how certain people were tweeting about him.
Elon Musk: Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood.
Weird how all the reporting I've seen so far leaves out that tweet. Is it even true? Did the attacker us the ElonJet account? Who knows! Reporters seem content to just pretend it never happened instead.
Edit: Actually searching for the exact tweet text does show it getting some coverage within the last hour or two. CNET, Newsweek, The National.
Also "lil X" is his 2 year old. Which I actually hadn't known.
In general, I don’t buy the “we should ban sharing true information because someone else might do something bad with it,” argument, but there are certain extreme cases where it may be valid. This is not one of them. Some guy getting on the hood of a car sounds a lot more like inconvenience than injury, even if it is scary. “Won’t somebody think of the children,” hits a lot harder when it’s your children, so it’s understandable why Elon might overreact, but it’s still a bad decision, and it shows that Elon’s principles cave hard and fast when they run up against something he personally cares about.
Cool, make the geotagged location of your children public.
Oh, you won't? What a hypocrite.
I'm being 100% facetious, but I hope it illustrates the, frankly, insane and bone chilling standard you are holding Elon too. I literally cannot fathom the relentless, unceasing anxiety I would suffer if my child's whereabouts were inexplicably public knowledge. Much less if I were the current target of the neo-liberal media machines two minutes hate.
I mean christ, I remember once upon a time one of Gawkers perceived crimes was their live crowd sourced tracking of celebrities. I have, or at least had, an old clip of Jimmy Kimmel chewing out a Gawker report for that, in a scene that appears to look like he's subbing in for Larry King for some reason? Oh hey, it's still on youtube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-avakrRUaU
Obviously "the airport elon's jet most recently landed at, which is available to anyone at (i think) https://www.adsbexchange.com" and "the live location of xae12" are different
If someone knows you personally, it basically is? They're, usually, either at your house (which you can usually get from a name), at school/school-associated location (the school is often directly derivable from house location, and generally not private) - and at predictable times!
This was 2rafa's point earlier, the knowledge necessary to harm someone is universally available and fairly easy to use. That people aren't usually harmed is due to people not desiring to, and law and society imposing punitive costs on those who try to.
These are literal, exact opposites. Is everyone's brains so thoroughly melted by the last decade of social media that all concept of not being a public facing person 24/7 been completely forgotten?
Something being knowable if you tell someone is not the same thing as being public knowledge. Even your example of, hey, some people know your home address, so that's basically public knowledge, right? No. That's called doxing.
Just... what even?
When you said "public knowledge", did you mean "public knowledge that a large number of people were interested in"?
My point was that if someone's motivated enough to go to the IRL location of your children, they're probably motivated enough to look in voter registration databases, or do the 5 hours of research necessary to dox 90% of people who use the internet. The motivation is the problem, not the publicness of the information. Doxxing is bad, but unless you put a lot of effort into hiding it, it's really easy to dox people. (I don't know precisely how one does it, but have seen it happen many times).
If someone's motivated enough, they will not be stopped by your home security - does that mean you leave your door unlocked?
I'm not saying you should put up a live location feed of your kid, just that nothing would happen if you did, unless there was some other reason for people to be interested.
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