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.
Try explaining that to Elon, “the world’s smartest man”
The ridiculous thing about his claim of ‘doxxing’ and ‘assassination coordinates’ is yeah, it’s all public on the FAA website, and anyone who was trying to stalk him or whatever would just look there. The tracking Twitter account was basically just niche celebrity news.
They’ve also been on Mastodon (@elonjet@mastodon.social) for about 8 months with 66k followers already
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.
Threads is having problems with EU regulation, not the UK.
Yeah unfortunately being on Threads doesn’t guarantee that the information would be public. I think this news is only relevant to the few who have joined Threads.
I was about to say, Mastodon seems like a much better choice.
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
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.
This is definitely the reason why Elon bought twitter.
The flap that Musk made about that led to one of the most ridiculously dumb phrases he has said yet: “assassination coordinates”.
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.