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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
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.
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
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.
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.
The account only republishes publicly available data. The worlds flight data is publicly available (Google search: flight tracker).
So there has never been, is or will be an expectation of privacy.
Elon making a case to the contrary is just wrong. But he has the loudest bullhorn so he gets support from people on his asinine stance.
If he wanted privacy, he should not have aimed to become one of the most public influencers in order to cash in on his fame.
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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.
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All your public comments have been replicated here thanks to Fediverse.
I presume you know about this, right? That's how this place works. Every server in the federation is copying, saving, and holding onto your posts. It'd be insane to be worried about this. Seriously.
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I know what you're trying to say. But your analogy is pretty crap, so I'm not going to cede you the point.
Find a better analogy.
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I know what you said because plenty of other people have made that crappy argument to me already. And like many others, they have come up across a brick wall of reality.
The long story short is: don't put your faith in Mr. Musk's arguments. If Mr. Musk new how reality worked, he wouldn't have been court-ordered to buy Twitter last year. His arguments may be echo'd across the internet, but they're astonishingly bad.
There's literally nothing illegal with the Elon FlightJet tracker. The only thing Musk has is control of Twitter, but the dude can just switch to Facebook, Mastodon and Threads and still keep publishing the flight information cause there's literally nothing illegal about it.
There’s literally nothing illegal with the Elon FlightJet tracker.
I literally never said there was
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