Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump
Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump
It's a bad week for the creator of @ElonJet.
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.”
The irony of Meta/Facebook - infamous for tracking people online - being upset about jet tracking.
Rules and laws are only for the peasantry. Your level of freedom is proportional to your wealth, so Meta has a whole lotta Freedom™️
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.
Obviously the way around this is to make an account that responds to any message containing a plane ID, and another that retweets it.
Tracking those jets isn’t the issue. It’s sharing that information publicly. Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others, and if you think they do, then you don’t understand how targeted ads work.
Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others, and if you think they do, then you don’t understand how targeted ads work.
It is explicitly stated in the TOS that Meta does indeed hand out your personal information to others.
If you think they don't, read the TOS.
Meta absolutely sells your data. Check out Meta Pixel. A suite you can ad to your website to send and receive said data. Also EU fined them 1.2B for selling data of EU citizens.
You are right the stupid peasants just too stupid to understand big brain things like privacy 🤡
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
“methed up Florida man" Redundant, we all know Florida Man is always methed up
I wish he did more damage. Fuck these billionaires and their 300 million dollar yachts. Most Americans are struggling to buy groceries.
you know where this wouldn't happen?
Mastodon.
A few are on Mastodon! https://grndcntrl.net/links/#ElonJet
Except it can would and does. Lots of instances with overzealous owners/moderators that defederate or remove anything they don't like
Is it possible to migrate one's account to a new Mastodon server, while keeping the followers one had in the old server?
Fuck corporate social media
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.
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
Thanks followed.
Fuck Zuck.
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
They can ban that but can't do anything about misinformation, scammers, bots and shit
They don't care to do anything about those
That's how you recognize bullshit. If there was a kernel of truth worth protecting the offending posts would be removed.
Officially, "its too hard". Realistically, they don't do shit because those shits bring in money by paying for exposition
And yet: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet is still up :)
Obligatory: https://grndcntrl.net/
Chad using Mastadon is just a cherry
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
@[email protected] 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?
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
Already has one.
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.
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?
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?
Given the risk of physical harm to individuals
Their private security details aren't enough?
Not to mention the data is publicly accessible.
Those rich fuckers can fly commercial like the rest of us. Upgrade to first and business class and suck it up.
I just took an 80min flight recently. For shits I looked at the first class upgrade option. It cost three times as much as my coach ticket. I hate flying, and I think airplanes are cramped and very uncomfortable, but I can't imagine choosing to have a tiny bit bigger seat for an 80min flight over buying two other people tickets or supporting a charity or just buying extra drugs that week. The amount of disposable income or pathological obsession with status to flagrantly make the choice to buy a first class ticket astounds me.
I wonder what a flight with Taylor Swift onboard would look like.
Extra hassle for flight attendants? The taxpayer would probably pay a couple bucks for a cop at departing and arriving terminals.
Tour buses seem reasonable.
Yet, Meta cannot do anything about hate speech...
unless its against zionism
Or if you make a self-deprecating joke about being white and get banned for 3 months.... Like I did once (Yet oddly the various reports I made about death threats against me on the basis of me being trans "Do not violate Facebook's terms of service" according to the automated responses)
I actually stopped using facebook to protect my META Account since I..... used to do VR before I got too lazy to do VR.... and developers got too lazy to make games for VR...
We must all collectively, start using Forums again.
"Well my Discord server is.."
I SAID FORUMS!
Discord is an alternative to IRC, the fact that people use it as a replacement for forums is baffling
Not baffling, infuriating, we've all gotten lazier over time and we want everything in one place.
Thing is, when we were on forums and IRC, we only had to play by the rules of the admins.... Now we're under the thumbs of corporations...
You're a bootlicker if you're on threads, simple as
God damn... Somebody out doing me on calling this pathological behavior
🫡
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?
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.
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.
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
Oligarchs be oligarching
Fuck Mark Zuckerberg.
Fuck Elon Musk.
Fuck Jack Dorsey.
Fuck Daniel Ek.
Fuck all these fucks.
Damn look at these parasites demanding privacy!
Hmmmm
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
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.
Are there any communities on Lemmy that do anything similar?
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.
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.
I think [email protected] can be used for this purpose even though it’s currently just to complain about them. That would be a better utilization
Freeze Speech ftw!
Now you know who they're for. Not like we did t know from the beginning, which is why I never used it
I mean... SAM would track them better than any account!
