And then when their anonymous airplanes crashed into each other, the world felt conflicted about it.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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Oh no that would be so sad. Please no.
Putin loves this simple hack
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. 😎
Luckily the FAA has no power in europe
These two are the least of out worries now.
Imagine this law in like 1999
That's just awesome 😬😬😬😬
Wait! Think about the children! What if we need to track pedophiles!?
The pedophiles are in power, except "real pedophilia is when the gays do it".
Only poor antifascist trans people are pedophiles dummy. /s
You mean Republicans? Yeah they won't allow that, silly
So can guys like Epstein...
What's the difference?
It’s the same group of people. They’re buddies.
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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
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.
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.
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?
Maybe the rich guys shouldn't be able to it instead and thats what should change?
Just like with the cars.
You can find out anything as well with the license plates.
No you cannot. You cannot easily find someone's address from looking at their plate. You need more information, or to do some advanced searching. It is simply not the same.
If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?
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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.
millionaires are way above middle class, middle class is usually around depending on area, is 50k-100k.year. millionaires are way above that. they usually buy multimillionaire(5+million) dollar homes, and often sometimes have multiples. actors,c elebrities are hundred millionaires, they are very wealthy individuals, billionaires are just obscene.
You're missing their point, they're saying from the point of view of those in power millionaires are middle class.
Although there are some that distinguish a "managerial class" that is in-between the middle class and the billionaires : people like CEOs and such, with net worth in the tens of millions but who are not those who benefit the most from the system and are culturally distinct. I think it's a useful concept personally, as their interests aren't necessarily the same as the owner class but they still have a lot of political power.
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Appropriate
I hope a traffic controller guides Elon's jet into the tarmac.
even better, accidentally into trumps airforce one.
How about drones? If you don't want all of your information avaible online and don't want remoteid to directly tell anyone and everyone where you live you can request not to do any of that stuff, right? Oh no, this is just for rich people flying in private jets that can transport humans and tons of cargo.
Elon now can more easily buy his specialK, lol
all that premium cocaine from columbia.
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Paparazzi can become useful by simply being the ones reporting the plane movement as they follow them around in person.
Honestly, I think this will be a bigger boon to folks like Elevated Access than to the billionaires of the world. Makes it a little harder for some chud who doesn't like what they're doing to show up at a pilot's home with a rifle.
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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.
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