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Humble_Novice
02/01/22 1:49:08 PM
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/19-old-tracking-elon-musks-094014057.html

Elon Musk blocked the teen who has been tracking his private jet on Twitter, Bloomberg reported.

Nineteen-year-old Jack Sweeney created the Elon Musk's Jet Twitter account in June 2020.
Musk offered Sweeney $5,000 to remove the account. Sweeney countered with $50,000, and Musk walked away.

The 19-year-old who created a Twitter account to track Elon Musk's jet told Bloomberg that the Tesla billionaire has blocked him.

Jack Sweeney created the Elon Musk's Jet Twitter account in June 2020. The account uses bots to collect publicly available air-traffic data detailing the movements of Musk's private jet.

Protocol first reported that Musk had approached Sweeney late last year and offered $5,000 to get the account taken down, saying it posed a "security risk."

Sweeney, who shared the Twitter private messages exchanged between himself and Musk with Insider, countered with an offer of $50,000. Musk declined, saying it didn't "feel right" to pay for the account's removal.

In a new interview with Bloomberg, Sweeney said Musk blocked all social-media accounts connected to Sweeney on Sunday night. Sweeney confirmed in a message to Insider that Musk has blocked him.

"You know, it's kinda strange, he wants it down and seems like he's really mad," Sweeney told Bloomberg.

Sweeney told Insider last week that Musk had introduced some measures that Sweeney had recommended during their Twitter conversation, which make it harder to track the jet.

Harder, Sweeney said, but not impossible. "I just have to work around it," Sweeney told Insider.

Sweeney told Insider that he was aware that going public with Musk's offer might antagonize the billionaire.

"He'll probably be annoyed," Sweeney told Insider, adding: "he went the opposite way of me so why wouldn't I go the opposite way of him?"

Musk and Sweeney did not immediately reply to requests for comment from Insider sent outside of regular US working hours.
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MutantJohn
02/01/22 2:00:51 PM
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50k is nothing to him though...

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Eramir
02/01/22 2:07:24 PM
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The messed up part to me is by the time thought about and made the offer to the kid of $5,000 Elon earned over $5,000,000. So he earned more money in the time span than the petty amount he offered to the kid thinking $5,000 is going to change his life forever or something. C'mon bro
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NightingaleMD
02/01/22 2:07:32 PM
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MutantJohn posted...
50k is nothing to him though...


Terrible take

Stalking is stalking. It's not okay to do it to a random girl at 2am, it's not okay to do it to billionaires. "Just because they have money to give" is not a reason to hold privacy ransom.

Surprised at the number of people with the same viewpoint. What a lazy country. That kid should be in a prison.

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NightingaleMD
02/01/22 2:23:54 PM
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I understand perfectly what he did

How are you not at all connecting this as stalking

You can find out where he is at any time against his consent as he travels

Am I in bizarro world

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RchHomieQuanChi
02/01/22 2:26:24 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
I understand perfectly what he did

How are you not at all connecting this as stalking

You can find out where he is at any time against his consent as he travels

Am I in bizarro world

I wonder if you have the same energy for Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook and all the other tech giants doing far worse

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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 2:28:40 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
I understand perfectly what he did

How are you not at all connecting this as stalking

You can find out where he is at any time against his consent as he travels

Am I in bizarro world
You can do it without the kid too. This is all publicly available information.
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FLAMING EVIL HOMER
02/01/22 2:29:54 PM
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Yeah im not on Elon side but that kid dont deserve any money from him. And elon cou just buy more private jets right?


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AablMind
02/01/22 2:30:01 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
I understand perfectly what he did

How are you not at all connecting this as stalking

You can find out where he is at any time against his consent as he travels

Am I in bizarro world
It's not stalking because it's not directed solely at Musk. Guy has many accounts tracking the most "important" people iirc

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Paragon21XX
02/01/22 3:09:35 PM
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You don't know what's going on either apparently. Elon is signed up for both LADD-Source (hides flight plan from public trackers) and PIA (FAA-authorized fake ICAO) and the kid still managed to defeat those privacy measures meant to prevent things like this. The only information that was supposed to be available to the public after these measures were taken is that there is a jet of the same kind that Elon owns in the air, with the altitude and heading and the kid figured out that it is Elon's jet. Don't believe me? He even straight up admitted it on one of his tweets:
https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1486438551294074882

This is literally peak Anon behavior along the same lines that found that "He Will Not Divide Us" flag that Shia LeBouf planted out in the middle of nowhere only a fucking day later by using flight trackers to find the exact location after watching various aircraft fly by on the livestream.

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NightingaleMD
02/01/22 4:16:40 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...
I wonder if you have the same energy for Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook and all the other tech giants doing far worse

Can you please point to the twitter account that tracks your every movement around the globe

thanks

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Doe
02/01/22 4:18:26 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
it's not okay to do it to billionaires.
Yes it is. It's praxis. Billionaires deserve to be afraid.

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Kloe_Rinz
02/01/22 4:18:29 PM
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stalking is pretty evil even if the person youre stalking is an evil billionaire
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EmbraceOfDeath
02/01/22 4:21:26 PM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
stalking is pretty evil even if the person youre stalking is an evil billionaire
Musk would have had him in court ASAP if it was actually stalking. Some of you people just say the most ridiculous shit.

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Smashingpmkns
02/01/22 4:21:36 PM
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Kid should ask for $50mil

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thronedfire2
02/01/22 4:23:34 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
I understand perfectly what he did

How are you not at all connecting this as stalking

You can find out where he is at any time against his consent as he travels

Am I in bizarro world

because anyone else could do the same thing if they wanted to. it's public information.

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NightingaleMD
02/01/22 4:34:29 PM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
stalking is pretty evil even if the person youre stalking is an evil billionaire

Perfect example of the intolerant left

demand respect for everyone that identifies as whatever they want

Someone gets a billion dollars and forever changes space travel for the better and suddenly he's a comic book villain deserving of death and everyone is entitled to all of his money.

The left really are just a bunch of vultures. They have nothing, they contribute nothing, they demand everything.

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MutantJohn
02/01/22 4:36:36 PM
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Untold levels of cope in this topic

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gunplagirl
02/01/22 4:39:39 PM
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MutantJohn posted...
Untold levels of cope in this topic
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/3/AAc53qAAC2Gb.jpg
They're getting the cope in however they can

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008Zulu
02/01/22 4:41:29 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
Musk would have had him in court ASAP if it was actually stalking. Some of you people just say the most ridiculous shit.
Didn't occur to you that Musk is trying the carrot before the stick?

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kelemvor
02/01/22 4:58:07 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
Terrible take

Stalking is stalking. It's not okay to do it to a random girl at 2am, it's not okay to do it to billionaires. "Just because they have money to give" is not a reason to hold privacy ransom.

Surprised at the number of people with the same viewpoint. What a lazy country. That kid should be in a prison.

It's not illegal what he's doing, but it's creepy as fuck. You would think we could all agree with that.

Also he should of took the 5K. It doesnt matter that Musk is a billionaire. Musk won't be extorted by a teenager and I'm sure he was offended that he countered with a 10x higher price for his privacy.
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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 5:01:12 PM
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kelemvor posted...
but it's creepy as fuck.
No it isn't, Musk deserves to be tracked. He doesn't deserve an ounce of privacy and anyone that thinks otherwise can fuck off.

kelemvor posted...
Also he should of took the 5K. It doesnt matter that Musk is a billionaire. Musk won't be extorted by a teenager and I'm sure he was offended that he countered with a 10x higher price for his privacy.
Musk should've offered a reasonable sum in the first place.
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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 5:02:35 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
Someone gets a billion dollars and forever changes space travel for the better and suddenly he's a comic book villain deserving of death and everyone is entitled to all of his money.
He did nothing to earn his money and he changed space travel for the worse.

NightingaleMD posted...
The left really are just a bunch of vultures. They have nothing, they contribute nothing, they demand everything.
Any left leaning person is going to bring more value to the world than you could ever hope to.
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Kloe_Rinz
02/01/22 5:03:22 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
Musk would have had him in court ASAP if it was actually stalking. Some of you people just say the most ridiculous shit.
get the fuck out of here with you "technically" bullshit. paparazzi shit is evil as well. legality has literally nothing to do with how evil a particular act is. stalking is evil no matter the legality of the specific action taken
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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 5:03:27 PM
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Conservatives aren't exactly known for their intelligence or knowledge.
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NightingaleMD
02/01/22 5:04:01 PM
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kelemvor posted...


Also he should of took the 5K.

*should have taken. Sorry, pet peeve.

You're not seeing the big picture. The same reason he isn't doing the 50k is the same reason we don't negotiate with terrorists, at least in theory we don't. If you give one money, many more follow. Soon his entire life is paying out to people doing crazy shit.


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kelemvor
02/01/22 5:04:07 PM
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Horrorbooksguy posted...
He did nothing to earn his money and he changed space travel for the worse.

Any left leaning person is going to bring more value to the world than you could ever hope to.

Uh, he's a doctor. What are you doing to bring value to the world?
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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 5:04:45 PM
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kelemvor posted...
Uh, he's a doctor. What are you doing to bring value to the world?
Probably isn't, and even if he is doesn't change anything I said, sorry kid.
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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 5:05:23 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
Soon his entire life is paying out to people doing crazy shit.
Good. He doesn't deserve his money, it should be redistributed. It clearly won't be through taxes like it should so this is the next best option.
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RchHomieQuanChi
02/01/22 6:17:29 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
Can you please point to the twitter account that tracks your every movement around the globe

thanks

I can point to the social media website that sells users' private information to the government and advertisers.

But I guess that pales in comparison to tracking publicly available information.

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The_Korey
02/01/22 6:30:23 PM
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I guess cyberstalking isn't really cyberstalking if the information, regardless of how out of the way, is legally available. Good to know.

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Horrorbooksguy
02/01/22 6:31:03 PM
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The_Korey posted...
I guess cyberstalking isn't really cyberstalking if the information, regardless of how out of the way, is legally available. Good to know.
Nobody cares that you're a bad person.
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ScazarMeltex
02/01/22 6:41:57 PM
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NightingaleMD posted...
Terrible take

Stalking is stalking. It's not okay to do it to a random girl at 2am, it's not okay to do it to billionaires. "Just because they have money to give" is not a reason to hold privacy ransom.

Surprised at the number of people with the same viewpoint. What a lazy country. That kid should be in a prison.
It's public information.

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RchHomieQuanChi
02/01/22 6:45:14 PM
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I guess it's cyberstalking to look at someone's Facebook page too

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BlackBlueButts
02/01/22 6:45:16 PM
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The Elon fan boys in that twitter thread are insane.

"Most important person in the world."
"Should have gained his respect and worked for him!"


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RchHomieQuanChi
02/01/22 6:46:34 PM
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BlackBlueButts posted...
The Elon fan boys in that twitter thread are insane.

"Most important person in the world."
"Should have gained his respect and worked for him!"

That billionaire worship is on a whole nother level of insane

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ScazarMeltex
02/01/22 6:54:24 PM
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If Musk doesn't want his travel info public he can fucking drive like the rest of us plebes.

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Wetterdew
02/01/22 6:58:20 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/2/0/AAUDt_AABkZU.jpg

musk should cough up the money
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MutantJohn
02/02/22 11:54:01 AM
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Elon Musk only offering $5k is what I think is so douchey about it. He's like literally the world's richest man and he's like, "I'll give you $5k to stop" when we all know he can easily offer 10x that and it'd still be a rounding error to him.

Basically, Musk is famously wealthy and then publicly acts stingy while also constantly posting cringe memes on Twitter.

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eston
02/02/22 11:58:54 AM
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MutantJohn posted...
Elon Musk only offering $5k is what I think is so douchey about it. He's like literally the world's richest man and he's like, "I'll give you $5k to stop" when we all know he can easily offer 10x that and it'd still be a rounding error to him.

Basically, Musk is famously wealthy and then publicly acts stingy while also constantly posting cringe memes on Twitter.
I agree with this, but also I think Elon Musk would be a fool to pay him anything at all when there is literally nothing stopping someone else from doing the same thing

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Shablagoo
02/02/22 12:03:48 PM
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Elon Musk has been nothing but a detriment to the world.

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gatorsPENSbucs
02/02/22 12:10:03 PM
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The teen was stalking him? What the fuck, should be in jail.

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Solid Sonic
02/02/22 12:11:53 PM
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It's not really stalking but it does seem like being a smug little shit. Like you CAN do something and you DIDN'T break any laws but everyone can see what you're trying to do and it's not kosher.

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Shablagoo
02/02/22 12:14:07 PM
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Kind of a weird flex considering you have an actual Banned account(s?).

Big Elon fan, huh?

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Shablagoo
02/02/22 5:07:05 PM
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A self-ban in a brief moment of clarity, then. Anyway, focus on treating your girlfriend better instead of keeping meticulous track of my moderation history.

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