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Just curious, do you really think the attraction of the ElonJet account, and the embarrassment it caused, was primarily due to the invasion of privacy as to what city Elon is in? The nature of private aviation facilities means that Elon would have minimal or no public contact regardless, and anyway that problem would be obviated much more effectively by flying commercial (including renting a private jet a la NetJets) which would eliminate the information altogether not just the Twitter account.
And anyway, I've never tried because I don't care, but I'd imagine it's fairly easy to know (by city/airport) where Elon or a comparable celebrity is most days because there's at least one public facing event a lot of days. Would reporting on all pubic events a celebrity engages in run afoul of your theory? A TaySwiftTracker that told fans where her concerts/events were for the day?
The primary appeal of the account among people I know who initially told me how funny it is was "Ha, look how ridiculous this supposed green ecowarrior billionaire is, flying his private jet here, there, and everywhere, all the time! Sure seems like he burns more fossil fuels than my f150! He should shut the fuck up about climate change." Probably some would be Czolgosz out there is rooting for his assassination, or more likely some would be Lord Dawlish, but I'm not sure that's a realistically large portion of the fan base. How do we balance that?
Not that I begrudge you taking a side with your boy Elon on the internet, but I'm just curious how far you carry this principle.
I think you vastly overestimate the level of security available at the median and even higher-security jet-serving private aviation field. In addition to most runways being state-owned with private FBOs that are open to the public, the nature of the fields themselves make anything more than preliminary security extremely difficult (large ground area with regular maintenance required), and margins are low enough that many air fields can't afford things like fences.
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A months delay on publishing from and to where Musk flew would be sufficient to prove his extensive pollution by flight emissions, while not putting his safety at risk.
Which to my (limited) knowledge of Elons interactions with the ElonJet kid, was never a request Elon made. It was always I'll give you a Tesla if you stop reporting, not please put it on a delay.
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