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This is all public info from the FAA. Unless Elon plans to ban the FAA from doing its job, people will know where Elon Musk's airplane is at all times. Bannin

This is all public info from the FAA. Unless Elon plans to ban the FAA from doing its job, people will know where Elon Musk's airplane is at all times. Banning a silly Twitter account that copy/pastes data from the FAA won't change a thing. The paparazzi have been using these things to follow celebrities since forever. It's an exorcise in ignorance to ignore the nature of FAA regulations / airplane tracking.

SXX 4y ago
Actually it's not even information from FAA since ADS-B Exchange use information gathered by private individuals. AFAIK all you need to gather ADS-B information for your own location is Android Phone, $30 USB dongle and some Antena.
- ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
  That will only let you know when the plane is overhead, and costs 30 USD more than Twitter.
polygamous_bat 4y ago
> It's an exorcise in ignorance to ignore the nature of FAA regulations / airplane tracking. It may be more of an exercise of Elon flexing his $44B investment over the heaters and the poor people: by this point he knows that anyone even slightly left of center is not going to love him, so he's full on embracing the far/alt right crowd by "owning the libs". "Free speech" is lip service at max that some people fell for hook, line, and sinker.
smcl 4y ago
Well that’s the other thing - banning the account on Twitter doesn’t make this go away. It just means people will follow them on FB or just use flightradar24 instead.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  Paging Ms. Streisand. Ms. Barbra Streisand, on the white courtesy phone...
squarefoot 4y ago
Exactly. A thread on Twitter about his Jets wouldn't touch his personal safety since the data is public, but it would attract more among the people who don't like him, therefore he would be giving exposure to discussions against his public image. He has all rights to ban whoever he wishes since he owns the platform, but common sense should suggest him to stop talking about free speech since he's in no position to lecture anyone on the matter.
- Eduard 4y ago
  > He has all rights to ban whoever he wishes since he owns the platform. I'm sure stuff like antidiscrimination law etc. in several jurisdictions would make such behavior illegal.
theonething 4y ago
> Banning a silly Twitter account that copy/pastes data from the FAA won't change a thing. Of course it does. When you make something easier to do, the effect is it increases the chance of people doing it. If your contact information is listed in a telephone book, it is publicly accessible information. Anyone can look that up. But who's going to do that? (to prank call you for example). But if some posts your info to a twitter account that reaches millions, chances are someone's going to call you. Why? Because popped up in millions of peoples' twitter feeds. And since it's so low effort, one or more people with nothing better to do will call.
- red_trumpet 4y ago
  That might be true for most instances of "you", but if you are Elon Musk, people will find your phone number in the telephone book anyway.

SXX 4y ago

Actually it's not even information from FAA since ADS-B Exchange use information gathered by private individuals. AFAIK all you need to gather ADS-B information for your own location is Android Phone, $30 USB dongle and some Antena.

ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
That will only let you know when the plane is overhead, and costs 30 USD more than Twitter.

polygamous_bat 4y ago

> It's an exorcise in ignorance to ignore the nature of FAA regulations / airplane tracking. It may be more of an exercise of Elon flexing his $44B investment over the heaters and the poor people: by this point he knows that anyone even slightly left of center is not going to love him, so he's full on embracing the far/alt right crowd by "owning the libs". "Free speech" is lip service at max that some people fell for hook, line, and sinker.

smcl 4y ago

Well that’s the other thing - banning the account on Twitter doesn’t make this go away. It just means people will follow them on FB or just use flightradar24 instead.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
Paging Ms. Streisand. Ms. Barbra Streisand, on the white courtesy phone...

squarefoot 4y ago

Exactly. A thread on Twitter about his Jets wouldn't touch his personal safety since the data is public, but it would attract more among the people who don't like him, therefore he would be giving exposure to discussions against his public image. He has all rights to ban whoever he wishes since he owns the platform, but common sense should suggest him to stop talking about free speech since he's in no position to lecture anyone on the matter.

Eduard 4y ago
> He has all rights to ban whoever he wishes since he owns the platform. I'm sure stuff like antidiscrimination law etc. in several jurisdictions would make such behavior illegal.

theonething 4y ago

> Banning a silly Twitter account that copy/pastes data from the FAA won't change a thing. Of course it does. When you make something easier to do, the effect is it increases the chance of people doing it. If your contact information is listed in a telephone book, it is publicly accessible information. Anyone can look that up. But who's going to do that? (to prank call you for example). But if some posts your info to a twitter account that reaches millions, chances are someone's going to call you. Why? Because popped up in millions of peoples' twitter feeds. And since it's so low effort, one or more people with nothing better to do will call.

red_trumpet 4y ago
That might be true for most instances of "you", but if you are Elon Musk, people will find your phone number in the telephone book anyway.