Your license plate, address, and employer is likely publicly available. Doesn't mean I should broadcast it out.
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.
Who writes the rules about "public sphere"? If I donate to a cause that hopes to influence public policy, should I be doxxed? How much money? Does it depend on the cause I'm donating to?
If I buy a [legal private means of transportation] to travel, people should be able to track my whereabouts.
Is this limited to private jets? How about private boats? Single engine airplanes? Or is there a price cap? Is a $50k plane allow you to maintain privacy? 100k? What's the cutoff? Should it be inflation adjusted?
I'm just trying to understand
I recommend that you read this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki%27s_Wager
One does not need to answer literally every single edge case or scenario, to answer other more obvious questions.
Elon Musk is a public figure. A random person driving a car is not. And everything in between is a spectrum, and we don't need to know the exact specific cutoff point to know the obvious answers here.
Should spaceship flights be private? :)
What exactly a 'public figure' is depends on the given legal system. But its pretty clear that is a public figure, by any definition. He's among the most wealthy (some might say; obscenely wealthy) persons on the planet and thus enjoys outrages amounts of social and political leverage.
Of course he doesn't enjoy the same rights to privacy as you and me.
so yeah. you can't buy that kind of privacy unless you want a nation state air force on your six, or some kind of a patrol boat in case of a yacht.
Yeah probably. Publicly elected official is pretty up there on it being important to have transparency.
> If I donate to a cause that hopes to influence public policy, should I be doxxed?
No, you shouldn't.
> the rules about "public sphere"?
The rules are a spectrum. Someone can both believe that it is important for very large public figures to be transparent, and also believe that it goes to far to dox anyone who has donated 1$ to a political cause.
And there is no contradiction here. And if you are to imply that there is a contradiction, then you are engaging in Loki's fallacy.
No I don't know the exact specific point where someone becomes a public figure. But I do know that Elon Musk is a public figure, and a random person who donated 1$ to the ACLU is not a public figure.