[hunterb123]

wait so you're saying doxing is on the same level as dissenting the government?

one thing is broadcasting personal information about a citizen, one is protecting a citizens right to object to actions by their government.

collecting public information is still doxxing. most doxxing involves only public information as it happens across the internet.

edit: a downvote is not a rebuttal, sorry, try again.

[VectorLock]

When he is crowing with #TwitterFiles faux leaks about how an internal cabal were making policy decisions about banning people, then making an extra-policy decision banning something he didn't like (posting public information) and then trying to backport policy for it.. The whole thing rings a bit hollow.

[UncleMeat]

Nude pictures of Hunter Biden? Critical free speech.

Publicly available location of Musk's private plane? Serious threat to human safety.

[maxerickson]

If you want to fly around in a jet, you have to follow the rules for jets.

The idea that posting publicly available information to Twitter transforms it is silly.

[etchalon]

It's based on publicly available information, that is required to be publicly available by government regulation, specifically for the public good.

https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certifica...

[ProjectArcturis]

Aircraft are all publicly tracked. All this account did was create a bot to take the info from the FAA site and post it to Twitter.

[hunterb123]

Much information about a person is publicly available, that doesn't mean it's not doxxing when you gather it and broadcast it.

Whether you are finding someone's email, or real name, or jet location, or home address, and then announce it, you are doxxing them.

[enkid]

There's a big difference between Elon and the average public.

[pclmulqdq]

Serious question: Why is a home address considered off limits? For most people, you can find their home address with 5 minutes of Googling. For someone like me, and I imagine the average HN reader, that time is more like 5 seconds. Your address is not usually considered private information, except in this context.

We used to have a thing called the phone book that put everyone's name, phone number, and address together in a book and sent it out. None of those is a piece of private information.

[jacquesm]

Aircraft are not citizens.

[hunterb123]

So you wouldn't mind your car being tracked and publicly broadcast?

It is just an automobile after all, and vehicles aren't citizens...

Cue fallback argument.

EDIT: added clarification to distinguish between Tweeting coordinates and Onstar services.

[worker_thread]

jacquesm didn't decided to be public figure who owns a jet, and no one asked Elon to do the same. Elon is free to walk away from it the moment he chooses to be.

[bombcar]

I mean it is tracked quietly by those who care.