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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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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 10 points 36 minutes ago

Just make a damn website already

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 minutes ago

Seriously.

1 website that forwards data to all the social media platforms.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 points 44 minutes ago

Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 33 minutes 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?

[-] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

That would still be banks, but yes, all for it

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Purdue, Black Rock and Vanguard own ~80% of all US stock, shortlist completed

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 13 minutes ago

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[-] MooseTheDog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes 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.

[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 37 points 1 hour 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.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 hour 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…

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 201 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 78 points 4 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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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour 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.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 86 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour 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 story 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 10 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 4 hours ago
[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 hours 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.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Thanks followed.

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago
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[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour 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

Given the risk of physical harm to individuals

Their private security details aren't enough?

[-] teft@lemmy.world 27 points 4 hours ago

Not to mention the data is publicly accessible.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Those rich fuckers can fly commercial like the rest of us. Upgrade to first and business class and suck it up.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

I'd have to guess a lot of the time is companies eating the cost for their people to fly first class rather then it being common for a rando looking to take a flight booking first class

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Yup. Companies have many times the money a single person does, so they'll shell out for it. Usually it's managers and execs who get upgrades, and the regular workers who get economy.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 hours ago

God damn... Somebody out doing me on calling this pathological behavior

🫡

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

Are there any communities on Lemmy that do anything similar?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour 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

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 2 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 2 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.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 hours ago

Damn look at these parasites demanding privacy!

Hmmmm

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