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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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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 379 points 1 month ago

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

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 147 points 1 month 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™️

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 month 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 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 146 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 105 points 1 month 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 38 points 1 month ago
[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 1 month ago
[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 month 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.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 70 points 1 month ago

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

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month 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 13 points 4 weeks 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

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 month ago

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

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago

They don't care to do anything about those

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 58 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago

Mango Mussolini

That's fucking brilliant

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 52 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 43 points 1 month ago

Just make a damn website already

[-] MSids@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month 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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[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month 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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[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago

Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 month ago

Can we do Fight Club's ending, but instead of banks, it's the corporate HQ of the 12 companies that control literally everything?

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[-] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 4 weeks ago

how much longer will we allow them to conspire against us?

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[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month 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.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 28 points 4 weeks ago

Yet, Meta cannot do anything about hate speech...

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 24 points 4 weeks ago

We must all collectively, start using Forums again.

"Well my Discord server is.."

I SAID FORUMS!

[-] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 13 points 4 weeks ago

Discord is an alternative to IRC, the fact that people use it as a replacement for forums is baffling

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[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month 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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[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

You're a bootlicker if you're on threads, simple as

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 15 points 4 weeks ago

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

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