[ebbv]

Isn’t kinda the point of her statement that she isn’t unidentified? She was made famous by somebody else without her knowledge and consent.

When a production crew wants to use footage of you in a show they have to get you to sign a release. There probably needs to be some form of this for online exposure as well. What form that would take is a difficult question.

[paidleaf]

> She was made famous by somebody else without her knowledge and consent.

She was made famous by the attention-seeking couple, her "plane boyfriend" and the exploitive media.

It's amazing how such a nonstory was milked by everyone for publicity and profit. And the theatlantic is still going at it.

If the poor woman wants privacy, how about theatlantic stop writig about the "Plane-Bae Woman"? How about focus on the couple who "set her up" to gain media following? How about focus on the "plane boyfriend" who knew about the couple filming them and used that for publicity by appearing all over TV and hinting that the unsuspecting woman had sex with him in the plane bathroom ( probably because the producer told him they needed juicy story from him ).

Or most importantly, how about the atlantic shine a light on itself and the media which turn a non-story into a major story because they need to exploit everything and everyone for money?

The story should be on everyone but the woman and yet the title is "Plane-Bae Woman".

And the atlantic is lying when they say "unidentified" woman when the "boyfriend" identified her and the media spent an entire week exploiting this woman and this story.

Instead of "Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman...", how about "Everything Wrong with the Media and Attention Seeking People"? Put the focus on the problem, not the victim.

[s-shellfish]

> If the poor woman wants privacy, how about theatlantic stop writig about the "Plane-Bae Woman"?

That honestly oversimplifies the issue. There's a narrative out there, that is clearly affecting how random people are interacting with her, not to mention her perception of herself.

Sometimes you have to control the narrative with the other perspective after the problem happens to mitigate the damage.

Stuff like this is never simple, it affects real people. Real people have to be talked about after real people are talked about unfairly. Not everything can be generalized, abstracted, and distilled into a philosophy.

[ghaff]

And while they're at it, I hope there have been consequences, if only some serious soul searching, for the Alaska Air and T-Mobile PR people who apparently jumped on this.

[SlowRobotAhead]

While I agree it’s really awful for the “legitimate” companies to jump on this - in reality it wasn’t a boardroom decision, it was some millennial they put in charge of the twitter account who has been raised with the same lack of awareness and social respect as the clowns that recorded it to begin with.

[ghaff]

Yes. That's one reason I wouldn't be calling for anyone's head over it. As you suggest, it's probably one or more young, inexperienced PR/social media people at those companies who thought they were doing something clever. I'd much rather these and other companies take it as an opportunity to reconsider their actions and put better policies in place rather than firing someone so as to be seen as "doing something."

[dragonwriter]

> in reality it wasn’t a boardroom decision, it was some millennial they put in charge of the twitter account

The controls and policies on corporate communication channels are an executive decision, even if not every individual action implementing them is not.

[jandrese]

I have to admit that this is the first I've seen of this "scandal", but it appears to be "people chat on airplane". Is it a slow news week for the gossip rags?

[egypturnash]

Creepy lady with no sense of boundaries got on a plane, switched seats with someone behind her so she could be with her SO. She then spent the entire rest of the flight watching the person she switched with chat with the person she would have sat next to, reading every interaction as a budding romance.

She took a ton of photos of these interactions, captioned them with her speculations, and posted them to Twitter. This thread went viral.

It’s all pretty creepy and invasive.

[cuckcuckspruce]

If they did that then they'd have to admit to themselves and the world that they're only making the situation worse, not better, by focusing on these types of stories.

[Gargoyle]

There's no reason existing media release forms wouldn't work in this instance.