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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] 8 points 15 hours ago

Fuck Mark Zuckerberg.

Fuck Elon Musk.

Fuck Jack Dorsey.

Fuck Daniel Ek.

Fuck all these fucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We must all collectively, start using Forums again.

"Well my Discord server is.."

I SAID FORUMS!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours 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...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yet, Meta cannot do anything about hate speech...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

unless its against zionism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Or if you make a self-deprecating joke about being white and get banned for 3 months.... Like I did once (Yet oddly the various reports I made about death threats against me on the basis of me being trans "Do not violate Facebook's terms of service" according to the automated responses)

I actually stopped using facebook to protect my META Account since I..... used to do VR before I got too lazy to do VR.... and developers got too lazy to make games for VR...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Oligarchs be oligarching

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

Freeze Speech ftw!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@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 17 hours ago (1 children)

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!

I mean what for? It costs even less to use an existing Lemmy or Mastodon server given the minimal load you add.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

@Carighan cause I don't have to play by someone elses rules if they decide to change them when they want.

the Reddit API situation opened my eyes. I pay less than 20 bucks a month and host my family and friends, worth it 🙂

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

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days 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] 23 points 2 days ago

Mango Mussolini

That's fucking brilliant

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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] 68 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

They don't care to do anything about those

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