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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] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 days ago (3 children)

you know where this wouldn't happen?

Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just curious – which app is that? Seemingly not Eternity, as I'm using that, and you do not appear purple in here, but I'm always interested in exploring alternatives to the apps I'm using.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Voyager AKA WefWef AKA The Best™️

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

As a software dev, you are my hero!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Thank you for that

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?

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

Deleted mine a long time ago and life got so much better. I still have friends that use it religiously and are on it every day like their life depends on it... Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ordinary people use it to try and talk to their friends, while being bombarded with shit and exploited.

They also use windows that do the same thing, and probably are used to being treated like that in exchange for free stuff.

It's just we who know tech that thinks it's absurd to allow ourselves to be treated like that, by people who are awful and rich.

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

They also use windows that do the same thing

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just make a damn website already

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

It's public information transmitted over airwaves and several sites exist already. Flightradar24 and adsbexchange are the two I use, though Elon and Taylor Swift are far too boring to pay attention to when you can watch refuelers and jets instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seriously.

1 website that forwards data to all the social media platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we do Fight Club's ending, but instead of banks, it's the corporate HQ of the 12 companies that control literally everything?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That would still be banks, but yes, all for it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Purdue, Black Rock and Vanguard own ~80% of all US stock, shortlist completed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days 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…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days 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] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are there any communities on Lemmy that do anything similar?

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

I think [email protected] can be used for this purpose even though it’s currently just to complain about them. That would be a better utilization

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

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