Tech-Enabled Stalking Debate
The cluster discusses whether real-time location tracking accounts, especially for celebrities, constitute stalking or harassment, and if anti-stalking laws, restraining orders, or platform bans should apply.
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Always wondered why anti-stalking laws and restraining orders can't be used against this
The owner of the account is a stalker attempting to extort his victim. Why hasn't he been banned? If I were to make an account tracking a random person's movement I'd likely be banned. Why should it be treated differently when the stalking victim is a celebrity?
That seems... disturbing. What are the practical applications of this outside of stalking?
How close to stalking are you suggesting ?
Couldn't this fall under stalking legislation?
Big, big mistake! What’s to deter stalking?
At some point that might count as stalking?
It's more about stalking strangers, less about using a phone to do it
Some people find stalking, and tools which could enable stalking to be undesireable.
Maybe he used the account for stalking.