Gregory's ServerThreads bans billionaire jet tracking in bid to move everyone to mastodon https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276546/meta-threads-instagram-elonjet-celebrity-jet-tracking-suspended
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 @stefan @elonjet @ZombieWretch Sweeney's website has all the accounts. https://grndcntrl.net/links/  @stefan @hacks4pancakes If only there was some βsiteβ on the βwebβ that could make this information available without relying on platforms operated by techbros with jets?  @davidbcohen There are. That's where the bots behind those accounts get their data from. It's all public data already, and the outrage is that they are getting banned for re-posting already publicly accessible data. @wonka @stefan @hacks4pancakes So aggregate it on a new website rather than posting to a private platform where the owner sets capricious rules. That is what the web is for, after all. @davidbcohen They are being banned for something that is so obviously not illegal that Elmo himself has not pulled though on his threat of "legal action". π€·  They're just trying to conceal a little treason. I don't know why they even bother as Biden's DOJ isn't going to do shit to stop foreigners from providing financial support to the Trump Campaign.  @stefan this is going exactly as predicted, Corporate Social Media is a not a free platform for human beings, it's a walled garden for pets.  @stefan @stefan banning people for posting publicly available data is pretty on point for techbro social media  @stefan @rebelrebel62 itβs like they donβt want us to know what Leonβs carbon footprint isβ¦  @stefan by far not the first or only thing Meta does in terms of #censorship Look for example this article Also during French latest election links to sides of #frontpopulaire got removed from post.  @stefan Why is posting someone's address from a public database (e.g. property taxes or voter rolls) "doxing" and wrong, but posting someone's GPS coordinates when they are near an airport is "necessary speech"? Is it just okay because billionaires are bad people? Doesn't that unequal treatment just reinforce the capitalist hierarchy?  @stefan ahhhh this is another explanation for the waves of people showing up again to condemn all of mastodon, claim threads and bluesky are better, and creating grandoise arguments and fights over this. Nice! Whiny man-children tech bros and white supremacists don't like it when you create a better place, then siphon off millions of users, do they. π |
@stefan This is funny, but will they defederate instances that harbor such accounts (applying pressure to get them banned here too)?