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Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. (www.faa.gov)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Well then...

As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

Bonus points: Y'all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Luckily the FAA has no power in europe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And then when their anonymous airplanes crashed into each other, the world felt conflicted about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Putin loves this simple hack

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wait! Think about the children! What if we need to track pedophiles!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Only poor antifascist trans people are pedophiles dummy. /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You mean Republicans? Yeah they won't allow that, silly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This doesn't do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is actually most helpful to the little guys that own $20,000 airplanes.

I have a small airplane and it's always bothered me that my name and address are publicly accessible through the FAA registry.

Most pilots I know are careful about photos they publish online showing their tail number printed in large bold letters on either side of the aircraft. This registration number can be entered into websites like flightaware.com and someone is literally two clicks from seeing my full name and home address.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is different because you typically need to know the municipality I live in first.

Also the registration allows anyone to track me anytime I fly.

How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live? Also what if you are required to plaster that registration number on the side of your vehicle in large letters that can be seen from a block away?

It's a massive invasion of personal privacy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live?

Buy a new car, you won't be far from that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

And to every other bidder, too, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Why would you want to hide that information? As long as planes use public skies everyone should be identified. Thats like the very basics of every secure operation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely air traffic in the sky should be identified. There is no problem with that, but it's the idea that it is too easy to find out everything about an aircraft owner by simply seeing the number on their tail.

The rich guys obfuscate that info with shell corps to own the aircraft.

Shouldn't everyone have the right to the same level of privacy regardless of how much money they have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe the rich guys shouldn't be able to it instead and thats what should change?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Anyone who isn’t rich in America can go fuck yourself is what they’ve been saying for a while in words and actions. Millionaires are the middle class today, actors and athletes and pop stars. Anything below is just a fucking scum fuck to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oddly, millionaires aren't really the middle class. House's in California routinely cost more than a million dollars. And a lot of people probably have a million dollars of retirement in one form or another. (Pensions have a value that very often tops a million). The middle class you are describing (athletes and pop stars) probably are more like 100 million or something. We just don't have a good name for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Petite bourgeoisie is what they are called. Wealthy people without an aristocratic title, not part of the ruling class and who still use their own labor to create wealth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

What the "middle class" can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably "upper class" at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So can guys like Epstein...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It’s the same group of people. They’re buddies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I hope a traffic controller guides Elon's jet into the tarmac.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

even better, accidentally into trumps airforce one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Appropriate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don't care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.