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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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[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 19 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago

the accounts should be used to inform where the tracking information is collected to instead of being the sole container for it. Never trust that anything you do is safe on corporate servers

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Are there any communities on Lemmy that do anything similar?

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 19 hours ago

Not lemmy (unless it does support it now?). But from a (k/m)bin instance you can access the mastadon account @elonjet which does the same as the original twitter elonjet.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Any client that can interpret Mastodon data can access it. I don't believe Lemmy yet has the ability to follow individual users in that way.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I think !billionaire@lemmy.ca can be used for this purpose even though it’s currently just to complain about them. That would be a better utilization

[-] rzadkie@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I mean... SAM would track them better than any account!

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