Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones - eviltoast
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Locations on ankle bracelets are not publicly available information. The FAA tracks every plane over U.S. airspace and offers that information in real time because it isn’t classified. All the Twitter account did was take the specific information offered about Musk’s plane and reported on where it went.

    So you are not talking about anything even remotely equivalent. This is information anyone can find out any time they want.

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Exactly right. Not only that, but Musk’s location is not the same thing as the location of Musk’s plane.

      So instead of ankle bracelet, a better analogy would be, “What if you took the #34 bus to work, and I started reporting the real time location of the #34 bus on Twitter?” My answer would be, “Be my guest”.