Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”

Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.”

    • @[email protected]
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      -432 months ago

      Do you think there shouldn’t be any laws prohibiting the sharing of people’s personal information like that?

      • Nougat
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        342 months ago

        No, I don’t think phone books should be illegal.

      • @BassTurd
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        322 months ago

        Not when it comes to air traffic.

      • @[email protected]
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        272 months ago

        The websites track the planes not the individuals.

        The planes might be flying empty. It has nothing to do with GDPR.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 months ago

        Is that question really “in good-faith” to “that law doesn’t apply in my country”?