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Taylor Swift threatens legal action against Florida student who tracks her jet | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 months ago

We have legal ramifications for that already. That’s being an accomplice in the commission of attempted murder.

Well yes, but only if the person attempts murder. If no attempt is made, there's no crime for which the other is serving as an accomplice.

Should we place that line elsewhere? Maybe, maybe not. But that’s for us to dictate.

100% agree with this and the other two paragraphs. That's why I'm asking these questions and trying to have a more in depth conversation than the rest of the people in this thread. I don't know where the line is, but I'm not comfortable completely washing our hands of this until violence actually erupts. The threat alone should be enough for us to discuss the problem. Just as the threat of violence from Trump's words is enough for us to discuss the problem, and we need not wait for his followers to break a law to condemn his rhetoric. Same kind of deal here. I don't have to wait until someone tries to kill Taylor Swift to say that there might be a problem with streaming her location in real time.

But it was pretty petty when Musk could have channeled a lot of that energy into getting new laws enacted and we could have avoided this whole thing with Swift. And Swift seems to be mulling litigation rather than actually reforming laws, which means this will inevitably happen again and again and again.

Actually hadn't thought of this. On second thought, I do think there's a more constructive way to do this, and I wish high profile figures would do more to participate constructively in the political process so we don't keep having to fight this based on personality type and affiliation.

Something that could be resolved with new rules indicating that FAA transponder information and matchup databases operate under a limited distribution model. So one can reproduce the data for personal consumption, but cannot reproduce the data wide consumption. Much like the same way the NFL (because we’re talking Swift here so apt entity to pull in) says you can have a Super Bowl party but you cannot have a projector for your entire neighborhood. There’s a middle somewhere and I’m not going to pretend I have all the answers, but just running the extremes doesn’t talk about that middle. That’s my issue with the Public on this.

I hear that loud and clear, and can't say I disagree with any of it. Thanks for engaging respectfully and helping me understand a different perspective.