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