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LimitedInfo | 3 years ago

serious question, does free speech extend to doxing? Personally I wouldn't like if there was a twitter that constantly tweeted the location of my car.

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coldpie|3 years ago

> serious question, does free speech extend to doxing

Boy, what a complicated and serious question. We should form a committee to discuss exactly where our community places reasonable boundaries and adjudicate blurry edge cases. Who could have predicted that a policy like "if it's legal, it's allowed" would lead to problems? Surely no one with a few dozen billion dollars to set on fire would be that unbelievably stupid.

LimitedInfo|3 years ago

ok point taken but I think this might be a case of removing general public access to all flight data, instead of some rule change on twitter.

phailhaus|3 years ago

Flight data is already public, the account was "just" posting about it on Twitter.

EarlKing|3 years ago

So if I find your phone number in the white pages you'll have no problem with everyone knowing it, right? Because that's public information, right?

resoluteteeth|3 years ago

I don't know whether I think it's free speech honestly, but I think the more relevant question here is whether Musk would consider it "free speech" to post the same type of information about someone else.

When he's not the object of the speech in question, he seems to think that things like calling people pedophiles is free speech, so he generally seems to be a free speech maximalist and I'm guessing the answer might be yes.

I don't consider a lot of things to be free speech that musk apparently does, but there's a big difference between him being a free speech maximalist in general and just supporting free speech when it's convenient.

cmh89|3 years ago

It depends I think it's extremely hypocritical of Musk to ban speech like doxxing, based on his past comments.

fzeroracer|3 years ago

Why is it okay if Musk does it?

Consider the following: The Twitter files contains a lot of private information and outs employees whom have received direct harassment.

The ElonJet account contains publicly available information on a very accessible site. This does not make a statement about Musk nor does it tell who is inside the jet at the time.

Which is closer to doxxing?

hajile|3 years ago

Professional communications and legal matters of accountability are far different than doxxing.