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.”
The irony of Meta/Facebook - infamous for tracking people online - being upset about jet tracking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
you know where this wouldn’t happen?
Mastodon.
Except it can would and does. Lots of instances with overzealous owners/moderators that defederate or remove anything they don’t like
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.
I wouldn’t lump bluesky in the same pile as threads anymore, the atprotocol is fully up and running and slowly but surely individually hosted data servers are trickling out and away to their own services.
There’s even new services running completely independent of bluesky running on atproto now: https://whtwnd.com/about
There’s a really good write-up on how atproto federation works here: https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l727v7zlis2i
