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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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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 23 minutes ago

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

[-] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 24 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 36 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 points 44 minutes 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.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 68 points 7 hours ago

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

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

[-] aeharding@vger.social 57 points 6 hours ago
[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago
[-] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

omg Toad, you can't just ask people why they're purple!

[-] aeharding@vger.social 72 points 5 hours ago
[-] Kaeru@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

Prolly my new fav dev of all time after this gem Cheers all! I fucking looove Voyager btw

[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 7 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for making a great app purple man

[-] otherKarl@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago

Thank you for that

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 hours ago

As a software dev, you are my hero!

[-] pirat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Just curious – which app is that? Seemingly not Eternity, as I'm using that, and you do not appear purple in here, but I'm always interested in exploring alternatives to the apps I'm using.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 6 points 4 hours ago

Voyager AKA WefWef AKA The Best™️

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 37 points 7 hours ago

Just make a damn website already

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Already has one.

[-] MSids@lemmy.world 15 points 6 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 25 points 7 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 1 points 2 hours ago

You didn't...?

Why not?

[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 78 points 9 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 19 points 5 hours ago
[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 27 points 7 hours ago

Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 289 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 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 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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 112 points 11 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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[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 15 points 7 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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[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 33 points 8 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…

[-] borth@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

The harm to people flying in private jets is much more important than spam links. According to their own "Oversight Board".

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 120 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 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 4 points 4 hours ago

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

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[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 11 hours ago
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