• @iluminae@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    But flight data is available - this guy just labels her N number and filters the data in a creepy way. I get that it’s probably causing her danger to have stalkers waiting at the destination for her - but those stalkers always had access to this flight data.

    Seems like a workaround for Taylor would be to not own a plane and charter a different one every time. (Or do something actually environmentally minded :/)

      • @Umbreon@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        I agree, I think you’re being down voted by the people who cheered on the Elon musk tracking kid. Sure it might be legal but I think everyone can all agree they wouldn’t want this done to themselves.

        • @TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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          99.999 percent of us here would never have this problem because we will never be close to owning a private jet, even if we wanted to for some reason. I also think most of us here agree that owning a private jet is selfish, and since its kind of a problem brought on by her own selfishness, it’s kind of hard to feel bad for her.

  • tygerprints
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    01 year ago

    Especially now with newspapers reporting that Taylor Swift is seen as a ‘danger to Republican norms’ (per USA TODAY copy, Feb 2 - 4), this is an especially dangerous position to put her in. Republicans are starting to claim she is swaying the country away from their “values” (whatever those might be) and they are looking at her as an enemy of our country.

    So the person doing this might have innocent motives, but it could lead to horribly disastrous results, and he could also be jailed for doing this. So I’m glad she’s taking some legal action up front if only to protect herself and show that she is unwilling to be made a victim of other people’s nutjob bigotry.

    • @solrize@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      We may have reached peak Taylor now that she is making a show of dating that football player. She intrigued me for a while but now I mostly cringe.

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        Yeah I don’t really know anything about her except her music isn’t really my thing. I recently gave it another shot but every song felt kinda ragey and judgey in an unexpected way. It falls in this “quite literal but somehow unclear and never abstract” style of songwriting that to me is… yeah, cringey.

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          Her music never did much for me but that’s fine, that’s just me. But I heard she was supposed to be a good lyricist. It seemed to me she had some sharp lines here and there, with filler in between. I was more interested in her persona and how she hit back against the record labels and movie studios. She did a good job of that.

  • sebinspace
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    01 year ago

    Alright you’ve been on a roll lately Swifty, but imma call you out; transponders are public information.

    • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      01 year ago

      Its a bit more complicated than that.

      Traffic cameras are usually publicly accessible. You are also, generally, allowed to take pictures of people when they are in public spaces where there is not an expectation of privacy.

      So at what point of this is the line crossed?

      1. Seb in space’s car was spotted driving down Main Street at 4:13 pm on Tuesday
      2. Seb in space was next seen on 1st street at 4:15 pm
      3. Seb in space was next seen turning off into the Hairy Palms apartment complex at 9:12 pm on Tuesday
      4. Seb in space was seen leaving the Hairy Palms apartment complex at 06:00 on Wednesday

      That is where this gets pretty murky. Because we all more or less acknowledge that parparazzi taking pictures of everyone leaving an airport are assholes (unless it is about figuring out if The Rock is going to come do PR to distract people from the WWE sexual slavery scandal…). But we have no issue with knowing that without even needing to send someone over to see who got off the 1235 LAX->DFW flight.

      And while my initial stance is “fuck the super-rich”: I am allegedly part of a private chat for “people in tech” to give each other a heads up if we see a CEO getting off a flight. Because if your boss is pretty regularly visiting Facebook HQ and not telling anyone? That is the sign that you need to refresh your CV because you might get layed off after an acquisition/merger. There are definitely business reasons for not making it trivial to track individuals.

      So yeah. I am going to side on the stance of “if you need to travel secretly, wear sunglasses like the rest of us”. Or, if you are too famous to even risk that, at least use one of the private jet companies rather than owning your own. But I also think this is something that we need to actually consider from a legal and privacy standpoint and it is a lot more complex than that.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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        01 year ago

        What does fEmInIsT have to do with anything?

        That’s exactly the point. She (and her legion of zombies) will cry misogyny and claim to be victim even when it isn’t true.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            01 year ago

            If you’re having difficulty to parse two sentences that I have written then I don’t know what else to say.

            But I can’t dumb it down to bring it to your level.

            • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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              01 year ago

              I’m guessing you have used the term “feminazi” more than a few times. Not understanding your weird issue with women is not a loss for me.