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[–] [email protected] 554 points 9 months ago (26 children)

Alright you’ve been on a roll lately Swifty, but imma call you out; transponders are public information.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Yeah, she's generally a decent person, but she's just in the wrong here.

[–] [email protected] 183 points 9 months ago (2 children)

She's generally good at managing her public persona, except when it comes to her ~~pollute more than a small city machine~~ private jet addiction. When people show you who they really are, believe them.

[–] [email protected] 164 points 9 months ago (8 children)

She also showed who she really was during the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes: someone who agrees to union demands, which was why she was allowed to release the best-selling concert movie of all time during the middle of the strikes.

On top of that, she got thousands of her fans registered to vote.

People are complicated.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like that she singlehandedly proved the union demands were reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not to take away from one of the most powerful people on the planet*, but a decent number of companies did that. I want to say A24 almost immediately agreed and that is why they were able to keep making films during the strike.

*: Jesus christ. How did Taylor Swift become one of the most powerful people on the planet?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"People are complicated."

Very much agree with this sentiment. I feel, too often, this gets lost in discussions. People will do stuff we agree with, and then they'll turn around and do something we disagree with. It's fine to praise and simultaneously lambast 'em.

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[–] [email protected] 254 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If you are for Musk being tracked, you should be fine with her being tracked the same way.

I'm for anyone in a private jet being tracked.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm for no one having a private jet.

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Woman who made over a billion being a public figure upset she is now a public figure.

Sorry, no privacy for private jets. I don’t care about the “danger.” She can fly commercial in business class or first class if she wants privacy.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago

Her Grammy speech was literally "I love doing this, thank you for giving me the opportunity to do what I love."

Bitch, if you don't want people to track you then fly first class.

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[–] [email protected] 218 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm on team Florida student.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago

Same.

Track them all. Elon. Other Billionaires. Government using our taxes for private planes.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Didn't the richest person in the world try to do this exact same thing? I'm still convinced it's the reason he bought Twitter. Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that. No one is going to be putting military grade radar equipment on a Boeing 757 if they can't even stop the doors from opening mid flight.

[–] [email protected] 162 points 9 months ago (17 children)

Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that.

One way to prevent being personally identified is to not fly around in your own personal jet and use one of the many other available options that aren't trackable this way.

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[–] [email protected] 173 points 9 months ago (29 children)

But flight data is available - this guy just labels her N number and filters the data in a creepy way. I get that it's probably causing her danger to have stalkers waiting at the destination for her - but those stalkers always had access to this flight data.

Seems like a workaround for Taylor would be to not own a plane and charter a different one every time. (Or do something actually environmentally minded :/)

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How is it creepy? It’s activism.

This person is a hell of a lot more useful to the world than some billionaire piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

Just because it's done to a woman it's suddenly "creepy". Don't think anyone ever called that guy creepy when it was done to Elon.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The solution is obvious.

Stop owning private jets.

Billionaires threatening, harassing, and intimidating normal people with their army of lawyers and sycophant fans is never okay.

Fuck Taylor Swift and every other rich piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 9 months ago

Fuck billionaires

[–] [email protected] 107 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nope. sorry taylor. if your plane's tracking information is public knowledge it's allowed. if it's good for elon it's good for you too.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

Her lawyers must be crazy to think they can get anything done that elon couldn't. Taylor should be mad at her PR for not stopping her if she asked for this personally.

As for private jets. People with wealth, use that wealth to find an alternative. God knows you haven't found anything else to do with it.

Edit: Also, please let it be zeppelin technology.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Way to kill the goodwill you've been gaining Taylor

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I'm thinking since the super bowl drama she's probably getting more death threats than usual, and this is a reaction to that. It's not going to work. You cant sue someone for publishing publicly available information.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You can sue someone for anything. If it will be successful or not is another matter.

Essentially she is trying to SLAPP him (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). Lawyers are not free in civil cases. She is just making it expensive for him if he wants to defend himself. And i doubt Florida has an anti-slapp law.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 9 months ago (7 children)

If you travel in the same plane all the time, and you own that plane, people will be able to track you. Why not just get a good contract with a private jet company so you can fly anonymously? Even if she wins this case, she will still be trackable until she takes advantage of any of the options she has at her disposal.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago

Maybe not the best idea to pattern yourself after Musk.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 9 months ago (41 children)

Put simply, there are no "good billionaires".

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s public information. If you have a problem then stop flying around in your fancy fucking jet.

God damn rich people. Fuck em all.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Looks like someone doesn't know how transponders work.

Understandable I guess: It's not really something most people know anything about, but you'd think someone working for her would've been like, "Yeah, no, that's not really how aviation works, they are public by design" before it got to the point where a legal threat was made.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago

What a friendly billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (20 children)

I'm expecting her to be revealed as a villain at some point. She was born with a silver spoon, there are skeletons in closets, and she knows it. Time will tell.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

ADS-B data is public. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy. I grew to respect her recently, but in this matter, she is full of shit.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

Sure Ms. Swift, act like Muskrat.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you don't want people to know where your going just throw on a medical mask and buy a Greyhound ticket in cash like every other undercover federal agent

/s

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago

Looking forward to her new, highly-relatable single, "Why you gotta track my jet?"

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If she had simply not said anything, no one would be talking about it

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Stop using the jet and this won't be an issue lol

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