They’ve also been on Mastodon (@elonjet@mastodon.social) for about 8 months with 66k followers already
He’s not tracking Elon’s jet. The activity of Elon’s jet is already public information. All he’s doing is republishing it on a widely used platform.
They’ve also been on Mastodon since Dec '22
Yes, not sure why the Guardian is reporting on this. I’m not even sure Threads is available in Britain.
It’s The Guardian, they were probably paid to advertise for Threads
Yeah, it mostly seems like a publicity piece for Threads. I think Threads is available in the UK though, but not the EU.
I think it is kinda newsworthy because Elon already threw his toys out of the pram when Threads launched and started eating what was left of Twitter’s lunch. That this one guy just reposting the already public data about his jet’s movements bothers him so much is delightful.
I was about to say, Mastodon seems like a much better choice.
This is why competition in the online space is essential and we need strong regulation to kill the network effects that keep Twitter and reddit afloat.
A platform should not be able to unilaterally censor anyone.
What lol? They never owned the internet, more like the users loaned them their attention for years - till they really screw up which they’ve been doing as of late.
I have nothing against coming down on companies that try & do anti-competitive things & pulling an API via ridiculous pricing is one of those things I feel the FTC should have the power to intervene in but I know conservatives would scream government over reach. They already do with both smaller & bigger things.
Regardless kbin, mastodon & Fediverse are all strong responses to what’s been going on & sadly they all need to avoid inter connectivity w/ these behemoths to ensure they don’t try underhanded tactics to destroy it, ironically. Maybe when/if they get to be of similar sizes & the momentum is too great for them to destroy a competitor then connectivity btwn the 2 can be done but till then it’s not safe imho.
Now why would Elon Musk, self-proclaimed Free Speech Absolutist, have that account suspended?
Good question. Maybe the same reason why Elon “humour is now legal again” Musk can’t take a little teasing?
The data is public, the feed just only prints out publicly available flight data - if Elon wants privacy, he should just charter a private jet used by other billionare dickheads, it’s not exactly a hardship now is it
Good to see.
For platforms with an amount of users in many millions, we need regulations on who can be banned, and for what reasons you can’t.
There is a difference between keeping tabs on someone & stalking/harassment.
I don’t like the Elon jet tracker stuff, I’m more a fan of privacy.It’s not stalking though, if he wanted privacy he could fly on a normal commercial plane like everyone else.
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So there has never been, is or will be an expectation of privacy.
If someone went through all my publicly available internet posts/any info on me online, put together a dossier with photos of me, and released it online every day from an account in an attempt to make it go viral - again this is all publicly available stuff mind you - then I am going to be very angry/upset and claim my privacy is being violated. It being available does not mean I have no reasonable expectation of privacy on a day to day basis.
Do I feel sympathy for Elon? No. But your line of thinking is very questionable and dangerous here. It’s why doxxing is so effective and wrong. The source of the info is not the only factor in whether we’d view it right or wrong, it’s primarily (or at the very least equally) about how it’s used.
Except flight data has no expectations of privacy.
Your airplane is legally required to broadcast its location in the USA. For safety reasons. Everyone with a private jet has that private jet constantly broadcasting its location.
This is literally publicly available information.
I don’t like it either, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the irony of people who make billions violating our privacy complaining about their privacy being violated with their own tools.
Not to mention a nice reminder that Elon’s petty fiefdom has its limits.
It’s about as much of an invasion of privacy as posting the weather. It’s publicly available information.
do you think billionaires/ruling care about YOUR privacy? cause they don’t. These people enact rules and regulations on us like cattle and then live differently as the world burns. A jet tracker is by far the least we can do to keep tabs on these people who would kill us for pennies (and have) and as mentioned it’s all public info anyway, like it matters though.
You can track most flights on flightradar24. It’s public information. When I see an interesting plane fly past I look it up on Flight Radar. It’s usually on there unless it’s a small crop dusting plane.
Elon isn’t a private citizen. He’s a public figure.
Rules are different. Elon puts himself in the spotlight repeatedly. He doesn’t live a private life. Many of his billionaire cohorts do.
Even if you are a private citizen, it doesn’t matter. Informations on everyone’s private jets are public information, no matter how “public” of a citizen the owner of the jet is.
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