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The Puzzle of Stalking

the ethics of following people around, looking through their bins, etc.

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Amos Wollen
Apr 13, 2024
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Last month, Augustine Lopez was jailed for stalking. Lopez is a 47-year-old Floridian who flew out to the UK last year, without booking a hotel, for the “sole purpose” of seeing Dr. Rebecca Smethurst—an Oxford academic, a science YouTuber who goes by “Dr. Becky”, an astrophysicist, and, key thing here, a person Lopez had never met.

On arrival, Lopez sen…

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