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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

how much longer will we allow them to conspire against us?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

@bungalowtill @ForgottenFlux

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Besides using the fediverse, how do we not allow it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Oligarchs be oligarching

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Freeze Speech ftw!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

Mango Mussolini

That's fucking brilliant

[–] [email protected] 58 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That's how you recognize bullshit. If there was a kernel of truth worth protecting the offending posts would be removed.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago

They don't care to do anything about those

[–] [email protected] 50 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

@[email protected] is still functional, for those who want to follow from the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Thank you. I plan to follow all this jet accounts and expect a Barbra streisand effect. Do you know more in the fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

If you know their name, they are probably a celebrity. That's kind of the definition

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

i guess celebritiy just means how well a person is known about/what for around the world, most people know about jeff bezos

[–] [email protected] 86 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 98 points 19 hours ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Voyager rocks! 👑

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

Thanks for making a great app purple man

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

🥳♥️👌🏻

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago

Thank you for that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

As a software dev, you are my hero!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 362 points 1 day ago (29 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 18 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 101 points 22 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What are we looking at here?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours 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

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Just make a damn website already

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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