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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.”
Oligarchs be oligarching
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!
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
That’s how you recognize bullshit. If there was a kernel of truth worth protecting the offending posts would be removed.
They don’t care to do anything about those
@elonjet@mastodon.social is still functional, for those who want to follow from the Fediverse.
Thank you. I plan to follow all this jet accounts and expect a Barbra streisand effect. Do you know more in the fediverse?
This is why we need to bring back the old internet, not this corposhit.
I remember when you didn’t have to type carefully in the comments.
I had my comments removed over and over again on a video about Kurt Cobain recently. I had to type something like, “When he decided to take a vacation away from the planet earth with a traditional 20th century raygun that fired ammunition meant for birds rather than rays or lasers meant for people and space aliens.”
Meanwhile, “the Jews control all information and have space lasers and and and they put chemicals in the water that turn the frogs gay” and the like doesn’t get removed.
What a world.
We live in an era where the truth is the most offensive thing you can say… Or anything funny… or… really anything outside of being overly moronic or hateful
Zuck creating a safe-space for billionaire private jet owners on Meta isn’t something I ever thought I would read, but here we are.
You didn’t…?
Why not?
you know where this wouldn’t happen?
Mastodon.
Except it can would and does. Lots of instances with overzealous owners/moderators that defederate or remove anything they don’t like
A few are on Mastodon! https://grndcntrl.net/links/#ElonJet
why are you purple?
omg Toad, you can’t just ask people why they’re purple!
I make ur app
Voyager rocks! 👑
🥳♥️👌🏻
Prolly my new fav dev of all time after this gem Cheers all! I fucking looove Voyager btw
Thanks for making a great app purple man
Just curious – which app is that? Seemingly not Eternity, as I’m using that, and you do not appear purple in here, but I’m always interested in exploring alternatives to the apps I’m using.
Voyager!
Nice!
Voyager AKA WefWef AKA The Best™️
As a software dev, you are my hero!
Thank you for that
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?
Deleted mine a long time ago and life got so much better. I still have friends that use it religiously and are on it every day like their life depends on it… Crazy.
Ordinary people use it to try and talk to their friends, while being bombarded with shit and exploited.
They also use windows that do the same thing, and probably are used to being treated like that in exchange for free stuff.
It’s just we who know tech that thinks it’s absurd to allow ourselves to be treated like that, by people who are awful and rich.
They also use windows that do the same thing
It’s a windows thing… But I know what you mean. The solution is Linux once again…
Just make a damn website already
It’s public information transmitted over airwaves and several sites exist already. Flightradar24 and adsbexchange are the two I use, though Elon and Taylor Swift are far too boring to pay attention to when you can watch refuelers and jets instead.
Seriously.
1 website that forwards data to all the social media platforms.
Sounds like an RSS feed
Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.
Can we do Fight Club’s ending, but instead of banks, it’s the corporate HQ of the 12 companies that control literally everything?
That would still be banks, but yes, all for it
Purdue, Black Rock and Vanguard own ~80% of all US stock, shortlist completed
Now I really want to know where all of these people are going that they have to hide it from the rest of the world.
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.