My post is clearly in connection with publishing users private information where they do not want it published, even if it is available elsewhere if the user does not want it published on these forums or on Twitter then that users choice should be respected.
Now if you have an issue with that then sure debate that what is actually posted. I will repeat I have not written an account of Elons jet, the reporters or this Claire Elise Boucher who you mentioned.
The location of Musk's jet was in no way private information, it was publicly available at the time for anyone to look up as all private and commercial aircraft (with the exception of things like microlights) are required to display their locations at all times when in the air,* even military aircraft can only turn off their location under very controlled circumstances (and pretty much never over civilian areas when not in a potential combat zone).
Musk lied about pretty much everything to do with his car, as the location of the aircraft had nothing to do with what happened to the car, the aircraft was in a different city from memory, so if the alleged attacker was using information from the location of the aircraft he was in completely the wrong place.
It was also funny how Musk decided that personal information should be private (even when it's public available to be tracked by law), but then had no issue posting pictures of his alleged attacker and the car he used.
Musk also then banned multiple journalists for simply reporting on his banning of the person that had been posting the flight data for Musk's jet.
I don't think people would have had the issue they did with Musk deciding he didn't want his aircraft's location shown on twitter if he'd done a few things.
1: Asked the guy not to post it in advance.
2: Made a change to Twitters T&C
before banning the guy.
2a: Applied the same rule consistently, there are trolls who repeatedly post actual addresses of people and Twitter just ignores those reports (far more so now that Twitter no longer has most of it's moderation teams, including almost all the ones that spoke anything other than English)
3: Not banned people for simply reporting on the ban of the guy (and lying saying they'd posted the information as well).
4: Not done all of that whilst claiming to be a bastion of free speech who was going allow pretty much anything on Twitter that was not actively illegal.
Many of the issues people are having with Musk is that he's not consistent at all, is showing no signs of thinking about what he's doing**, is not bothering to learn the basics about what is involved in the company he bought, and is making major changes to a platform that tens of millions use and in many cases rely on for important information (weather, local emergency alerts etc), and making them with what is often at best a few hours notice.
No other major platform does that, if just because most other major platforms tend to run major changes past legal, or consider the effect they'll have on the users and at least pretend to listen to feedback.
*The Aviation authorities world wide take an extremely dim view of people not showing the location of their aircraft to everyone, for some reason it's considered a serious risk when an aircraft can't see the location of another one (let alone ATC).
**The "Privacy" rule he retroactively imposed was so badly thought out it literally meant you couldn't mention that the President of the USA was giving a scheduled press conference in the White House, or that a singer was at a concert. At least until he revised it a few times.
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