[Ferrotin]

Obviously he followed the car from the airport — how else would he identify the car with Elon Musk’s kid?

[dtjb]

we don't know anything about the "stalker" other than what Musk said. Musk has been caught lying about his children in the past [1] to justify his Twitter policy swings. I'd like to think he wouldn't stoop so low as to use his kid like that, but the truth is we don't know.

Now journalists are being banned for copying word-for-word the police response stating that "no police report was filed" over the stalker incident.

[1] https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696

[sprkwd]

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests.

[hcurtiss]

The kid dying in his arms or his wife’s beside him — I feel like this is not a good one to be screaming “liar.”

[monksy]

It's like journalists don't believe that anything will happen to them. The faster they divest from twitter the better.

[dtjb]

That would be a loss for twitter IMO. I know it's being remade into ground zero for culture war discourse, but there's nowhere else online like Twitter when it comes to breaking news and developing situations. Journalists and reporters sharing information as it's verified real time.

When something was going down, you went to twitter.

[maxbond]

Twitter was lost the day Musk carried that sink into the building. I agree that it was an important cultural institution, but I don't think there's anything that can be done to save it. The faster we let it fall, the faster we can develop alternatives.

Twitter is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

[angelbob]

And even if you think "not the fediverse," Twitter is still dead. Let's get to "long live" something.

[drstewart]

No one cares about the fediverse.

[peppermint_tea]

I do.

[rvz]

Only the tiny minority of techies screaming about the 'fediverse' care. There is little interest with the majority of non-techies 200M+ that care to use it daily, let alone sign up; hence why they still use Twitter.

Federated social networks such as Mastodon are a solution in search of a problem, and it always has been like that for years.

[throwntoday]

I'm gonna be honest, you're coming off a bit delusional. No meaningful amount of people care about the issues you do to abandon twitter for an already dead network like mastodon. The idea of federation doesn't appeal to normies, it only confuses them.

[maxbond]

This is a reflection on your perception, what you imagine to be possible, and how much respect you afford "normies", more than it is a reflection on me.

[midoridensha]

Well this should be a good lesson in why not to trust something that supposedly is in the public interest to a private company that can easily be bought up by some billionaire with emotional problems.

[KerrAvon]

and now Mastodon is the same thing, but decentralized and not owned by a single point of human failure.

[jjulius]

>Obviously...

We know too little about this incident to say that that is obvious at this point.

[Bud]

Please explain how the car in question was found in the first place, at an airport the size of a small city. Flight-tracking data will have been of absolutely zero help in doing that, of course.