I expect people who hold very public positions of specific rights to keep those positions and moral values in mind when making decisions every time they make such decisions, not just when it is best for them.

Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen should be enough to make anybody ashamed for having anything to do with the autocratic KSA.

I expect people who says that specific freedoms and/or principles are important to them to let such beliefs guide all their actions not just when it is convenient for them.

I expect them to also live under the same sort of rules and regulations they would have the rest of us live under.

Being honest and not lying often would be nice too.

Why would he need to mention freedom of speech?

He is praising the economic growth of China, which is a fact. It did grow a lot.

What would he say?

"The economic prosperity that China has achieved is truly amazing, despite lacking freedom of speech"??

He said Netflix lost subscribers because it was producing woke content.

It doesn’t make any sense on its face other than as a way to con certain ideologies.

I have Netflix and I consume Black Mirror, Stranger Things, Squid Game, Bojack, etc. Calling Netflix woke is pure virtue signaling.

Maybe he’s planning to run for President?

Unless you take it as a premise that right wing content is bad, then what is wrong with letting it flourish just as much as left wing content?

Depending on where you stand, either will be bad to you and should be stopped. If you are building a company that moderates content, then you have to choose to be neutral, left leaning, or right leaning. Twitter started as neutral, arguably started to lean left, and under Musk many assume will start leaning right, or at least move more back towards neutral. We will have to wait and see.

IIRC when conservatives were complaining that twitter was reducing their reach, the refrain from the left was that twitter is a private company and can do what it wants. With Musk taking it over and taking it private, it is an even more private company, and if it becomes less obviously supportive of left-leaning thought and more tolerant of right-leaning thought, then the same argument applies, its a private company and it can do what it wants.

Maybe this will be the opportunity for a twitter competitor to pop up and vacuum up all of the disgruntled left. It would be interesting to see how an explicitly left-wing version of twitter would faire compared to the right-wing versions that have not been able to land.

Nobody that defended him could even cite something. Somebody mentioned a show about teenage girls from a few years ago is all. But why would that affect subscriber counts in Q122?

Netflix produces a lot of content. I would venture a guess that 99% of it isn't woke or anti-woke.

>Everyone agrees that Netflix is woke, the disagreement is weather wokeness is good or bad.

I thought conservatives preferred facts to feelings? This doesn't seem to be an opinion based on facts.

"Everyone agrees that netflix is woke..."

Do they? I don't. Mainly because I don't even know what that phrase means anymore. Any meaning the word "woke" HAD has been thoroughly lost as it has now become a stand-in word for any position some conservatives don't like.

> Everyone agrees that Netflix is woke, the disagreement is weather wokeness is good or bad.

This is factually wrong. I never even knew that there was a conversation about wokeness and Netflix. And I still don't understand why. Netflix just streams videos? Is this about the content they make/license or about their corporate/employee culture?

People who are pro/anti wokeness I think spend a lot more time thinking about this stuff than everyone else does.

I don't think Netflix is "wok". Their content standard has just taken nose dive. Case in point: Stand-up comedy specials. Netflix pays out staggering $10M-$20M for this one hour stand-up. They used to be high quality and worth watching. In recent years, comedians have been using Netflix as ATM machine. You need money? Just call your buddy there, schedule a special 6 months down the line and collect money. This leads to majority of special with aweful content that you would probably stop watching in few minutes.

What Netflix experiencing is very similar to communist economy. Producers don't get paid for views hey generate and they have no market incentive. Unlike cinematic releases, you cannot go in loss on Netflix because deals are made upfront. There is no cost of failure to you. There is no real economic award or punishment from the market. So people just come in and slap whatever content they can to spend the available money.

When you are moving in the public sphere - as Musk is doing - you lose certain rights to privacy that nobody John 'Random Person' Smith enjoys.

Except it is already being broadcast, on hundreds of sites.

You can search for people on google and get literally all of their information. Address, phone number, job, family, friends, and anything else that is public knowledge. Presented in a very easy to read format.

Why should the wealthy be special? Just because they have the money to stop it? I didn't opt in to having my information packaged nicely and presented to anyone who cares to search for me.

It's inferred data only. Elons jet is required to publish ADS-B location beacons for air traffic control etc. Crowdsourced platforms like ads-b exchange collect and publish these public/unencrypted airplane gps beacons worldwide. You just need to know the jet's registration to look it up.

This is an absolutist argument. In the real world lines have to drawn somewhere all the time.

I do not believe the location and flight paths of your private jet being kept private is a right. Its transponder is also publicly broadcast whenever active, and any receiver in range on ground or in space can receive and retransmit its broadcasted payload.

I’d subscribe to an SMS or email feed of @ElonsJet if it was deplatformed. Higher level, I try to get any info available on Twitter in my email instead; it’s just a shitty message bus for my purposes.

It's an interesting conundrum. As someone who believes in rights, the problem here seems to be neither with elon's expectation of privacy nor with elonsjet's expectation of free speech, but in the requirement of having to report his plane's ADS-B realtime output to a public system.

It doesn't seem impractical that the government needs that data to operate effectively, but to require that a person (or plane) broadcast their information to a registry that is public seems to be the crux of the issue here.

"I believe privacy is a right."

I guess you don't believe free speech is a right since you don't think people should be able to speak about Musk's travel location?

"If you cross a certain threshold and lose your rights then they are not rights."

People cross thresholds and lose rights all the time. We put them in a right-less place called jail. I guess you think nobody has rights then?

Human rights were invented to protect the weak against abuses from the strong (who would otherwise always get their way because in nature might always makes right).

I think it's a bit of a pointless concern to think about the equal privacy rights of a man who's worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Privacy isn't a right because it can't be enforced. Should I be able to sue someone for taking photos of me walking to the grocery store? Should other people be able to sue me for reading a newspaper over their shoulder? No, that kind of litigation is insane. There is no such idea as a "reasonable expectation of privacy" when you own a multimillion dollar private jet. You're being taxied through airports on one of the largest vehicles mankind can make, of course you're not going to be private. There's no basis for enforcing that kind of right, it would quickly devolve into a game of "who can buy the better lawyer", which certainly doesn't balance the scales of justice.

The whole "privacy is a human right" shtick is a virtue-signally scam. Privacy is your duty, nobody will give it to you for free. Complaining that the rest of the world won't ignore you after writing a Tweet that 500 thousand people liked is absurd. Musk had his chance to live a private life. He threw it away, and now he lives the consequences. Defending some multi-billionaire because he can't have his cake and eat it too is just ridiculous. I say that as someone with neutral feelings towards Musk overall.

>Do you believe privacy is a right?

From a legal perspective, this depends on the country you're in. In the US where Musk lives things like Article 8 do not apply. Also, public figures in general are considered differently under various legal tests than private figures.

> True, and he has also not passed a single law or regulation.

Actually, that's not true: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-spend...

Is the Twitter user extorting Musk?

Or if someone personally canceled the Tesla order of a Tesla critic which he has done at least once. For all his talk about free speech without limits he doesn't really practice it.

If the location of Karen’s car is publicly tracked and available, then it’s exactly like the Elon Musk plane situation.

However, Karen’s car is not required to have a transponder, so the location of it isn’t public information. Therefore, it’s actually nothing like the Elon Musk plane situation. Hope this helps!

And I just pointed out to you that the movement of private planes is already far more public than the movement of private cars, and for good reasons. The account isn't (as far as I know, I've never looked at it) actually doing their own tracking; they are simply (I assume) collating public information from air traffic control authorities, etc.

Karen‘s car is not publishing updates about her current location on a public radio frequency which everyone can receive.

Flights are public information. Cars are not. Are you seriously such a fanboy of Elon that you have to pretend to be offended by someone sharing public information that anyone can google and get in 3 clicks? If the 1% doesn't want their private flight info to be shared, then they can just take a normal flight like the rest of us.