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.”
Just make a damn website already
Seriously.
1 website that forwards data to all the social media platforms.
Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.
Can we do Fight Club’s ending, but instead of banks, it’s the corporate HQ of the 12 companies that control literally everything?
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.
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…
you know where this wouldn’t happen?
Mastodon.
It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?
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.
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™️
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.
That information is already public, how do you think he gets it?
My name, address and phone number are public too but if you were to share it on social media you’d be breaking the law.
If you put your name, address and phone number on a public forum and someone shares that do you think that’s breaking the law? Doxxing generally applies to making personal identifiable information public without that persons consent. Those celebrities are making their own data public, or rather their private jets are because they’re required to publicly broadcast their location in real time.
If those accounts are collecting public information they’re not doing anything illegal. Otherwise we might as well call libraries illegal because they contain a registry of every book author whose book is in the library.
All I need is your flight number. You don’t know how any of this works, do you?
You don’t even need the Internet, just search up ADS-B receivers on Amazon. The plane and the ATC system itself is tattling on you every second, blasting your position out over the air.
Source?
I believe it’s prohibited under GDPR as well as many local laws.
I don’t live there.
Do you think there shouldn’t be any laws prohibiting the sharing of people’s personal information like that?
Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others
Huh? How do you think ad targeting works?
“Show my ad to hornly lonely 13 y/o that suffer from Tourette”
vs
“Here is a list of 13 y/o that suffer from Tourette”One of these options is less profitable for an ad network in the long run.
Did you all forget about Cambridge Analytica?
An advertiser contacts Facebook and says, ‘We’d like to advertise this product to a specific group of people,’ and Facebook says, ‘Sure, hand us your money and the ad you’d like us to display,’ and then targets that ad to the desired audience. At no point does Facebook hand over user data to the advertiser.
For example, if I want to advertise my home renovation services to all the elderly home owners in my city, then what use would it be for me if they just handed me a list of those people? None. They’re the advertising platform. It’s them who targets those ads.
Except you can add a tracking pixel to the destination website after people click through on the ad, which correlates to people’s individual profile. To say that isn’t “handing out personal information to others” is sophistry of the highest order.
They’re not handing out personal information. If you hide stuff like that in your ad links then you’re the malicious actor, not facebook.
You may want to familiarize yourself with how their tracking pixel works. In brief, you add a line of code (provided by Facebook) to any given website and on page load that code displays a 1x1px transparent image from Facebook’s servers that allows them to establish a correlation between the loading of that website and the identity of the person logged in to Facebook on that browser. it isn’t “hiding” anything or circumventing Facebook in any way. It’s a core part of their advertising offerings. https://www.facebook.com/business/goals/retargeting
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 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
“methed up Florida man" Redundant, we all know Florida Man is always methed up
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
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.
Fuck Zuck.
Thanks followed.
And yet: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet is still up :)
Obligatory: https://grndcntrl.net/
Chad using Mastadon is just a cherry
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’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
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.
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.
You’re a bootlicker if you’re on threads, simple as
God damn… Somebody out doing me on calling this pathological behavior
🫡
Are there any communities on Lemmy that do anything similar?
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
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.
