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Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”
Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.”
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But when you report obvious fake accounts that merely exist for 5 days, follow 5000 people already and only have 3 followers themselves but a nice spammy link in their profile, they allegedly don’t violate any terms of services…
The harm to people flying in private jets is much more important than spam links. According to their own “Oversight Board”.
Not sure who needs to hear this but the amount of money spent on private jets by these billionaires in 1 year could replace all our lead pipes in the USA.
This all feels very Streisand Effect. I don’t care about these accounts, but the more attempts there are to suppress them… the more they feel important.
Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.
What are we looking at here?
Castle Streisand
And yet: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet is still up :)
Obligatory: https://grndcntrl.net/
Chad using Mastadon is just a cherry
Zuckerberg’s $300 million yacht may be tracked here. It is currently in San Diego. https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857511
I wish he did more damage. Fuck these billionaires and their 300 million dollar yachts. Most Americans are struggling to buy groceries.
“methed up Florida man" Redundant, we all know Florida Man is always methed up
The irony of Meta/Facebook - infamous for tracking people online - being upset about jet tracking.
It’s not even tracking… Tracking is what the FAA does, and makes publicly available. These accounts are just publishing the already-public information.
Fuck every one of these shitty billionaires. Fly commercial if you don’t want to be tracked publicly.
Obviously the way around this is to make an account that responds to any message containing a plane ID, and another that retweets it.
Rules and laws are only for the peasantry. Your level of freedom is proportional to your wealth, so Meta has a whole lotta Freedom™️
Tracking those jets isn’t the issue. It’s sharing that information publicly. Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others, and if you think they do, then you don’t understand how targeted ads work.
That information is already public, how do you think he gets it?
My name, address and phone number are public too but if you were to share it on social media you’d be breaking the law.
If you put your name, address and phone number on a public forum and someone shares that do you think that’s breaking the law? Doxxing generally applies to making personal identifiable information public without that persons consent. Those celebrities are making their own data public, or rather their private jets are because they’re required to publicly broadcast their location in real time.
If those accounts are collecting public information they’re not doing anything illegal. Otherwise we might as well call libraries illegal because they contain a registry of every book author whose book is in the library.
If they are public, no it is not illegal. If they are not public, but I have them because I provide a service to you, then yes it is illegal (most likely). In this case it is public information, and not even personal information. It is a plane identifier and that plane’s location. The only reason that tells you anything about it’s passenger is because said passenger is rich and entitled enough to own their own plane and use it for themself. It’s like buying the Empire State Building to live there by yourself and then complaining about someone tweeting out your address.
All I need is your flight number. You don’t know how any of this works, do you?
You don’t even need the Internet, just search up ADS-B receivers on Amazon.
Source?
I believe it’s prohibited under GDPR as well as many local laws.
Finnish law doesn’t apply if you aren’t in Finland.
I don’t live there.
Do you think there shouldn’t be any laws prohibiting the sharing of people’s personal information like that?
What does that have to do with airplanes ?
You are right the stupid peasants just too stupid to understand big brain things like privacy 🤡
Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others
Huh? How do you think ad targeting works?
An advertiser contacts Facebook and says, ‘We’d like to advertise this product to a specific group of people,’ and Facebook says, ‘Sure, hand us your money and the ad you’d like us to display,’ and then targets that ad to the desired audience. At no point does Facebook hand over user data to the advertiser.
Except you can add a tracking pixel to the destination website after people click through on the ad, which correlates to people’s individual profile. To say that isn’t “handing out personal information to others” is sophistry of the highest order.
They’re not handing out personal information. If you hide stuff like that in your ad links then you’re the malicious actor, not facebook.
You may want to familiarize yourself with how their tracking pixel works. In brief, you add a line of code (provided by Facebook) to any given website and on page load that code displays a 1x1px transparent image from Facebook’s servers that allows them to establish a correlation between the loading of that website and the identity of the person logged in to Facebook on that browser. it isn’t “hiding” anything or circumventing Facebook in any way. It’s a core part of their advertising offerings. https://www.facebook.com/business/goals/retargeting
“Show my ad to hornly lonely 13 y/o that suffer from Tourette”
vs
“Here is a list of 13 y/o that suffer from Tourette”One of these options is less profitable for an ad network in the long run.
Did you all forget about Cambridge Analytica?
It’s funny how people who get their news exclusively from their Facebook feeds have never heard of Cambridge Analytica. I can’t imagine how that could happen.
Meta absolutely sells your data. Check out Meta Pixel. A suite you can ad to your website to send and receive said data. Also EU fined them 1.2B for selling data of EU citizens.
Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others, and if you think they do, then you don’t understand how targeted ads work.
It is explicitly stated in the TOS that Meta does indeed hand out your personal information to others.
If you think they don’t, read the TOS.
Oligarchs be oligarching
Fuck Mark Zuckerberg.
Fuck Elon Musk.
Fuck Jack Dorsey.
Fuck Daniel Ek.
Fuck all these fucks.
Yet, Meta cannot do anything about hate speech…
unless its against zionism
Or if you make a self-deprecating joke about being white and get banned for 3 months… Like I did once (Yet oddly the various reports I made about death threats against me on the basis of me being trans “Do not violate Facebook’s terms of service” according to the automated responses)
I actually stopped using facebook to protect my META Account since I… used to do VR before I got too lazy to do VR… and developers got too lazy to make games for VR…
Fuck corporate social media
Seriously threads and bluesky are false promises, the rest of the fediverse might grow and innovate slowly but it is genuine growth on genuinely community owned platforms.
Bluesky and threads are visions of the past wearing the future’s clothes. They are investor backed and fundamentally and irrevocably for profit ventures.
Do not be seduced into wasting your time in stuck in the past, this is a perfect reminder we already know where it will end no matter what their precariously employed devs say.
I wouldn’t lump bluesky in the same pile as threads anymore, the atprotocol is fully up and running and slowly but surely individually hosted data servers are trickling out and away to their own services.
There’s even new services running completely independent of bluesky running on atproto now: https://whtwnd.com/about
There’s a really good write-up on how atproto federation works here: https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l727v7zlis2i
Thanks followed.
Fuck Zuck.
Given the risk of physical harm to individuals
Their private security details aren’t enough?
Not to mention the data is publicly accessible.
Those rich fuckers can fly commercial like the rest of us. Upgrade to first and business class and suck it up.
I just took an 80min flight recently. For shits I looked at the first class upgrade option. It cost three times as much as my coach ticket. I hate flying, and I think airplanes are cramped and very uncomfortable, but I can’t imagine choosing to have a tiny bit bigger seat for an 80min flight over buying two other people tickets or supporting a charity or just buying extra drugs that week. The amount of disposable income or pathological obsession with status to flagrantly make the choice to buy a first class ticket astounds me.
I’d have to guess a lot of the time is companies eating the cost for their people to fly first class rather then it being common for a rando looking to take a flight booking first class
Yup. Companies have many times the money a single person does, so they’ll shell out for it. Usually it’s managers and execs who get upgrades, and the regular workers who get economy.
Free food and drinks (and I mean real beer and mid tier liquor, and actual food not snacks) in a much much nicer lounge is worth its weight in gold if you fly a lot of have a long layover. If you’re flying 15000 miles a year those upgrades become much cheaper (like more than 50% off) on many flights.
Freeze Speech ftw!
how much longer will we allow them to conspire against us?
we have to take the steps to not use their platform, or better yet, start a Fediverse server of their own.
I was able to do it myself! the cost of running a Lemmy and Mastodon instance for myself is so cheap… I’m actually shocked more people aren’t doing it!
I was able to do it myself! the cost of running a Lemmy and Mastodon instance for myself is so cheap… I’m actually shocked more people aren’t doing it!
I mean what for? It costs even less to use an existing Lemmy or Mastodon server given the minimal load you add.
Besides using the fediverse, how do we not allow it?
Mango Mussolini’s flights are paid for by the tax payers through the USAF and those flights should be tracked.
Mango Mussolini
That’s fucking brilliant
Billionaires are celebrities now? Like that’s true for Taylor Swift, but Bezos?
If you know their name, they are probably a celebrity. That’s kind of the definition
i guess celebritiy just means how well a person is known about/what for around the world, most people know about jeff bezos
They can ban that but can’t do anything about misinformation, scammers, bots and shit
They don’t care to do anything about those
Officially, “its too hard”. Realistically, they don’t do shit because those shits bring in money by paying for exposition
That’s how you recognize bullshit. If there was a kernel of truth worth protecting the offending posts would be removed.
