These billionaires are significant public people enough that this absolutely falls in the public interest enough to warrant disclosing their identities. Same with politicians. There is legal precedence for this and the norm in journalism.
What? Who says so? A politician politicking or a person trading on their looks or public stage persona certainly can expect some invasion of privacy, but even they don’t deserve illegal means of information gathering[1] even less a person just because they happen to be billionaires.
“Norms” don’t define things as right. I’m pretty sure we can think of some dark examples.
[1]I think I read about something called “The Watergate Scandal” about illegal gathering of information...
Elon Musk isn’t trading on his public stage persona?
That aside, I guess I just don’t have much sympathy. If certain “rules” are gonna apply to billionaires and not normal people, that seems fine by me. It might seem “biased” or “unfair” to some people, but hey: Who ever said we were operating in a “fair” context to begin with? Sure this kind of bias could be turned against more vulnerable people, it already is, it’s about time it got turned against the people at the top.
