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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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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We must all collectively, start using Forums again.

"Well my Discord server is.."

I SAID FORUMS!

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Discord is an alternative to IRC, the fact that people use it as a replacement for forums is baffling

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Fuck Elon Musk.

Fuck Jack Dorsey.

Fuck Daniel Ek.

Fuck all these fucks.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 150 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Now you know who they're for. Not like we did t know from the beginning, which is why I never used it

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week 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

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 391 points 1 week ago (30 children)

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

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 151 points 1 week 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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[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 110 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (3 children)

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Officially, "its too hard". Realistically, they don't do shit because those shits bring in money by paying for exposition

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

They don't care to do anything about those

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mango Mussolini's flights are paid for by the tax payers through the USAF and those flights should be tracked.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just make a damn website already

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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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