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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by jjav on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:40PM (#34010331)
> People keep saying that yet no one has been able to define to me what “legitimate interest” the public has for tracking a private plane. I don’t believe one exists.

If you have an objection to this tracking, you'd have to take it up with the FAA. Because the legitimate interest is that the rules require airplanes to transmit this information any anyone is free to listen to it.

Which is a great thing for aviation safety, so I'm glad the rules exist.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by zoklet-enjoyer on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:46AM (#34010918)
Yes but creating a page to broadcast the location of an individual is weird and not ok. Why does it matter that it's trivial and legal to do?
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by jonathanlb on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:03AM (#34011555)
> weird and not ok

I mean, that particular individual is in turn weird and not okay.

But who am I to say? And what does it matter if something is weird and not okay? Lots of things fit that bill, and that doesn't mean they shouldn't exist.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by zoklet-enjoyer on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:31AM (#34013389)
If you owned a website like Twitter it would be perfectly fine for you to ban users for posting that information.
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by arrrg on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:14AM (#34014645)
Sure (in certain jurisdictions). But is that good policy?

Obviously not.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by zoklet-enjoyer on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:07AM (#34015326)
I don't see anything wrong with it. The jet kid can create his own website
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