Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account
by cat_plus_plus on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:01PM
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That's motte and bailey on "harmful". Nobody is banning people for saying Musk is a moron, nobody is advocating for "There is a <slur> walking on so and so street right now" tweets. Criticizing people vs revealing their precise current location to everyone on Internet are very different things.
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This is public information. His own plane reports it. Anyone can buy a receiver to pick up the transponder, and websites exist to collect that data from people who do. All this Twitter account does is report that for one plane in that database. Anyone, including stalkers, can make a script to watch it.
Plot twist: Elon applied for and obtained privacy protection from FAA so it was no longer public information.
The owner of @ElonJet account de-anonymized the info and bragged about it on Twitter.
Now Elon is suing him and people who helped him to obtain that no-longer-public information.
Plot twist: Google “site:faa.gov elon musk registration”
First result: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResul...
It’s owned by FALCON LANDING LLC located at 1 Rocket Rd. I mean… come on.
> FALCON LANDING LLC located at 1 Rocket Rd
Witness protection programs need to hire this guy, he has a gift.
Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account
by magicalist on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:44PM
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> The owner of @ElonJet account de-anonymized the info and bragged about it on Twitter.
...in February.
> nobody is advocating for "There is a <slur> walking on so and so street right now" tweets.
A few months ago Elon was. Remember when everything that isn't illegal was going to be allowed on Twitter?