Drew HarwellDec 16, 2022
One point I do want to make clear: Twitter is Elon Musk's website. He paid all that money and can ban whoever he wants. It's his right, just like it's our right to point out when he's spreading bad information and contradicting himself.
Show threadDrew HarwellDec 16, 2022

Because Elon has continuously misrepresented this:

The data used for flight-tracking accounts like ElonJet - called ADS-B data - are transmitted from nearly every plane in the sky.

The signals are unencrypted, and anyone with a $20 RTL-SDR radio can pick them up. Aviation hobbyists gather the data and put them on websites like ADS-B Exchange.

It's publicly available, legally acquired data of the kind Elon Musk said he'd allow, until suddenly he no longer did.

MichelleDec 17, 2022
Show threadDrew Harwell

How The Washington Post has used flight data:

* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA

* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie

* To raise questions about Elon Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X

* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M

* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0

Plane carrying Donald Trump made emergency landing in New Orleans after engine failure over Gulf of Mexico

A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday evening over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.

The Washington Post
Dec 16, 2022 at 7:32pmWeb
Show threadNick Selby Dec 16, 2022
@drewharwell @Cjust also: ADS-B is open source and public data. It’s like banning use of the letter L.
Show threadLynda ThompsonDec 17, 2022
@fuzztech @drewharwell @Cjust ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Show threadWilliam B. TurnerDec 16, 2022
@drewharwell. How DARE they! Tyranny! Sore injustice! Impeach!
Show threadEnrico Ariis Dec 16, 2022
@drewharwell
did Elon break up with Bari?
Show threadFluzDec 16, 2022
@EnricoAriis @drewharwell since when has lone uskm cared about his kids?
Show threadlazystreet779Dec 17, 2022
@EnricoAriis @drewharwell did anyone ask why he wasn’t with his kid and who was in fact with the kid?
Show threadRobin from Colorado 🇺🇸🇺🇦Dec 16, 2022
@drewharwell watching journalists going through the five stages of death is interesting. Are we in denial or bargaining?
Show threadcbn2Dec 16, 2022
@drewharwell Seriously, everyone I know who has their own plane (and I know a lot, because I'm rural Alaskan, and our family had 3) knows that all private plane flights are publicly tracked through aircraft tail numbers. I'm astonished that anyone who regularly flies that way would be 1) surprised or 2) bothered. Especially when he wants to track the locations of all Twitter users for ad purposes. #SlimyLittleHypocrite
Show threadLynda ThompsonDec 17, 2022
@cbn2 @drewharwell ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Show threadJacob HornerDec 16, 2022
@drewharwell I think you meant to say “assassination coordinates”
Show threadTy RossDec 16, 2022
@drewharwell Glad to see you here, Drew!
Show threadAmanda Finley Digs All ThingsDec 17, 2022

@drewharwell but the megalomaniac thinks we give a flip about where he is every minute of every day.

How soon can we render him irrelevant? Push him back into the shadows and not a threat to democracy?

Show threadlazystreet779Dec 17, 2022
@Rubyslippahs @drewharwell can we raise enough $$ to buy him out of twitter? Tho, just a few days ago I hypothesize that if we the interested people can play the right game we would own twitter and he would still have to pay the bills. Ideas!
Show threadAmanda Finley Digs All ThingsDec 17, 2022

@lazystreet779 @drewharwell oh, we don't need to raise a dime. Let the fool crash it, and we'll go clean it up when he takes the next space penis outta here to just the tip of space. Byeeeeeeeee.

I've cleaned up after a few tornados. We've got this.

Show threadTurd BlossomDec 17, 2022
@drewharwell How dare they use readily available data for quality news stories. The nerve!
Show threadJetStreamDec 17, 2022
@drewharwell These are not good examples. None of these has anything to do with our dear God #elonmusk. He only sees everything through his eyes.
Show threadRob LandleyDec 17, 2022

@drewharwell Airplanes broadcast their license plate via radio. The FAA has required them all to do this since the 1950s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFF_Mark_X

Half the arguments about drones in civilian airspace is that they don't have sufficient transponders:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/resources/faq#q16

Twittler getting suddenly upset about this is like him getting suddenly upset about Apple's 30% cut of iPhone sales. He knew for years and agreed to it, then "forgot" when he donned the maga hat.

IFF Mark X - Wikipedia

Show threadJordan BarabDec 17, 2022
@drewharwell If Elon wants to avoid being tracked wherever he flies, he should just fly commercial. Problem solved! You're welcome.
Show threadCătă 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇲🇩🇪🇺Dec 18, 2022
@drewharwell don't forget about the monitoring of Russian airplanes done currently in the context of the war in Ukraine