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[-] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 192 points 1 week ago

Wait! Think about the children! What if we need to track pedophiles!?

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago

Only poor antifascist trans people are pedophiles dummy. /s

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

You mean Republicans? Yeah they won't allow that, silly

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[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This doesn't do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago

This is actually most helpful to the little guys that own $20,000 airplanes.

I have a small airplane and it's always bothered me that my name and address are publicly accessible through the FAA registry.

Most pilots I know are careful about photos they publish online showing their tail number printed in large bold letters on either side of the aircraft. This registration number can be entered into websites like flightaware.com and someone is literally two clicks from seeing my full name and home address.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago

If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

It is different because you typically need to know the municipality I live in first.

Also the registration allows anyone to track me anytime I fly.

How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live? Also what if you are required to plaster that registration number on the side of your vehicle in large letters that can be seen from a block away?

It's a massive invasion of personal privacy.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I was looking up bike lanes in a city I was thinking of buying a house in and the map had property lines on it, with the registered owners names plastered in every space.

[-] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Neither is right

[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Not really. But the FAA could use some improvement on privacy issues.

[-] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

Can you take me for a ride on your plane?

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago
[-] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah :D

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why would you want to hide that information? As long as planes use public skies everyone should be identified. Thats like the very basics of every secure operation.

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Absolutely air traffic in the sky should be identified. There is no problem with that, but it's the idea that it is too easy to find out everything about an aircraft owner by simply seeing the number on their tail.

The rich guys obfuscate that info with shell corps to own the aircraft.

Shouldn't everyone have the right to the same level of privacy regardless of how much money they have?

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe the rich guys shouldn't be able to it instead and thats what should change?

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Just like with the cars.

You can find out anything as well with the license plates.

[-] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

No you cannot. You cannot easily find someone's address from looking at their plate. You need more information, or to do some advanced searching. It is simply not the same.

[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anyone who isn’t rich in America can go fuck yourself is what they’ve been saying for a while in words and actions. Millionaires are the middle class today, actors and athletes and pop stars. Anything below is just a fucking scum fuck to them.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Oddly, millionaires aren't really the middle class. House's in California routinely cost more than a million dollars. And a lot of people probably have a million dollars of retirement in one form or another. (Pensions have a value that very often tops a million). The middle class you are describing (athletes and pop stars) probably are more like 100 million or something. We just don't have a good name for that.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 18 points 1 week ago

What the "middle class" can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably "upper class" at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Petite bourgeoisie is what they are called. Wealthy people without an aristocratic title, not part of the ruling class and who still use their own labor to create wealth.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

millionaires are way above middle class, middle class is usually around depending on area, is 50k-100k.year. millionaires are way above that. they usually buy multimillionaire(5+million) dollar homes, and often sometimes have multiples. actors,c elebrities are hundred millionaires, they are very wealthy individuals, billionaires are just obscene.

[-] falcunculus@jlai.lu 8 points 1 week ago

You're missing their point, they're saying from the point of view of those in power millionaires are middle class.

Although there are some that distinguish a "managerial class" that is in-between the middle class and the billionaires : people like CEOs and such, with net worth in the tens of millions but who are not those who benefit the most from the system and are culturally distinct. I think it's a useful concept personally, as their interests aren't necessarily the same as the owner class but they still have a lot of political power.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 60 points 1 week ago

How about drones? If you don't want all of your information avaible online and don't want remoteid to directly tell anyone and everyone where you live you can request not to do any of that stuff, right? Oh no, this is just for rich people flying in private jets that can transport humans and tons of cargo.

[-] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

It's also for middle class people flying around in single-engine bug smashers

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Elon now can more easily buy his specialK, lol

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

all that premium cocaine from columbia.

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 week ago

And then when their anonymous airplanes crashed into each other, the world felt conflicted about it.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 1 week ago

Oh no that would be so sad. Please no.

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[-] revv 31 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I think this will be a bigger boon to folks like Elevated Access than to the billionaires of the world. Makes it a little harder for some chud who doesn't like what they're doing to show up at a pilot's home with a rifle.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Glad to hear there is a good thing to come out of this

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don't care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.

Well then...

As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

Bonus points: Y'all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I’m not sure I’d ever put TS in the same sentence with that Nazi gremlin.

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She may not be as bad but she's still a billionaire who rides her private jet everywhere on a whim contributing more to climate change than thousands of people will in multiple lifetimes and was included in the Panama Papers. Her greed and abuse of the system will always be closer to Elon than any of us

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[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 21 points 1 week ago

She still has the carbon footprint of a small country.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

No. Ethical. Billionaires.

Every day she wakes up and chooses not to solve homelessness in Tennessee.

[-] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

She's more like Elon than any of us will ever be

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

many people tried to astroturfed she dint come from money,. she literally came from an upper middle class upbringing bordering wealthy. her family moved her to tennessee so she looks "poorer" than she is to her fans.

[-] Goldholz 11 points 1 week ago

Luckily the FAA has no power in europe

AI can still track these fools. Thanks deepseek.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago

I don't know why you people all think AI has some magical capabilities. Tracking which aircraft is owned by whom isn't exactly a complex task if you have the raw data of flight movements (needed for ATC and otherwise independently tracked by plane spotters,...) and people movements.

[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~ https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tenor.com%2Fr_TKnlE-iksAAAAM%2Fwdym-you-people.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=31b86596775e3e23a12146d3a0be65dd0e8d01fa7652ad1cc7a73c31dcf76acb&ipo=images ](I guess I mean you could train ai to do the work so you don’t have to monitor it 24/7)~~

Edit : I give up I can’t make the link right

Edit 2: thanks for all the replies explaining how I should do this right. I don’t think I am smart enough for this. This has been a humbling experience.

(I guess I mean you could train ai to do the work so you don’t have to monitor it 24/7)

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

You can just paste the link normally. If you want custom text on the link, you do this

[Custom text](https://example.com/)

Renders this

Custom text

Also I think the post is talking about hiding the data to begin with. There are already some tracking tools out there that look at the existing data. If the data isn't accessible to you, then it's not accessible to the AI either. Nothing for anyone to look at

Although I'm not familiar with flight details to know what exactly is being hidden, or if there are workarounds

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

You have it the wrong way around. () around the link and [] around the text -> Test123:
I guess I mean you could train ai to do the work so you don’t have to monitor it 24/7

[-] IndianaJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

(I guess I mean you could train ai to do the work so you don’t have to monitor it 24/7)

Here you go

[(I guess I mean you could train ai to do the work so you don’t have to monitor it 24/7)](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tenor.com%2Fr_TKnlE-iksAAAAM%2Fwdym-you-people.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=31b86596775e3e23a12146d3a0be65dd0e8d01fa7652ad1cc7a73c31dcf76acb&ipo=images)

[-] rice@lemmy.org 2 points 1 week ago

lol you had it right, just backwards. I get the link markdown backwards too and I've used it 20 years!

[-] tacobellhop@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

These two are the least of out worries now.

Imagine this law in like 1999

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