Congress Just Took Away Our Ability to Track Billionaires' Private Jets.
(www.thrillist.com)
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The financial criminal Ken Griffen, didn't like people tracking his plane on superstonk.
I'm sure he had support from others, but he's probably the one...
He was visiting some strange places.
Probably the real bosses of globalhomo.
John Kerry, “I don’t own a plane”. Kek
Well to be fair, if I had a private jet, I wouldn't want the public to be able to track me either!
The radar services and the navigation maps and routes are not privately owned systems, but are hooked into national and international system for flight management and navigation. Planes are required to be registered just like cars are. The airplane transponder is required equipment for anything general or commercial or military aviation (basically anything not ultralite or bush plane because the other categories will fly above 10k ft and/or will be landing at airfields that are in or near class a /b /c airspace). Military aviation is the only group allowed to turn off their transponder when the mission requires. But transponders are basically radio broadcasts that include information about the flight.
So given all this infrastructure is not privately held, and given the omnidirectional, unencrypted transponder broadcast of the ADSB equipment, what special right to privacy can be had for a billionaire flying in a private airplane while utilizing for navigation and function the costly publicly built resources that must be in place for all the airplanes to safely be able to fly in all weather and at all times?
Of course they dont have the plane anklebracelet.
Theyre the enslavers not the enslaved.
So now no one can track Trump's plane flying to DC?
That is likely because one day they know they will be hunted by angry mobs.
Too little, too late, bitches. We have it all!
An aircraft owner can opt out of public tracking of their aircraft. I have had a lot of customers that have opted out, from small, piston aircraft to business jets. Not new, not hard to do.