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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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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago

Mango Mussolini's flights are paid for by the tax payers through the USAF and those flights should be tracked.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Mango Mussolini

That's fucking brilliant

[-] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 hours ago

They can ban that but can't do anything about misinformation, scammers, bots and shit

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago

They don't care to do anything about those

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 8 hours ago

Billionaires are celebrities now? Like that's true for Taylor Swift, but Bezos?

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 3 hours ago

If you know their name, they are probably a celebrity. That's kind of the definition

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

i guess celebritiy just means how well a person is known about/what for around the world, most people know about jeff bezos

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 40 points 12 hours ago

@elonjet@mastodon.social is still functional, for those who want to follow from the Fediverse.

[-] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Thank you. I plan to follow all this jet accounts and expect a Barbra streisand effect. Do you know more in the fediverse?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 53 points 12 hours ago

This is why we need to bring back the old internet, not this corposhit.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 80 points 15 hours ago

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Except it can would and does. Lots of instances with overzealous owners/moderators that defederate or remove anything they don't like

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 322 points 19 hours ago

The irony of Meta/Facebook - infamous for tracking people online - being upset about jet tracking.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Obviously the way around this is to make an account that responds to any message containing a plane ID, and another that retweets it.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 119 points 19 hours ago

Rules and laws are only for the peasantry. Your level of freedom is proportional to your wealth, so Meta has a whole lotta Freedom™️

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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 90 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 30 points 13 hours ago
[-] triptrapper@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

What are we looking at here?

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

Castle Streisand

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 41 points 15 hours ago

Just make a damn website already

[-] MSids@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

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.

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[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 27 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

You didn't...?

Why not?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 132 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Zuckerberg’s $300 million mega yacht may be tracked here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857511

It is currently in San Diego at Broadway Pier. Which was also confirmed by yesterday’s news of a methed up Florida man being arrested at gun point for sneaking aboard and throwing things off into the water LOL https://youtu.be/L7nnKn1W4Mw

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

I wish he did more damage. Fuck these billionaires and their 300 million dollar yachts. Most Americans are struggling to buy groceries.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 17 hours ago

“methed up Florida man" Redundant, we all know Florida Man is always methed up

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 30 points 15 hours ago

Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.

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[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 35 points 16 hours ago

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…

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[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 19 hours ago
[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 40 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago

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

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[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?

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