Alright you’ve been on a roll lately Swifty, but imma call you out; transponders are public information.
Yeah, she’s generally a decent person, but she’s just in the wrong here.
Admittedly I don’t know much about her as a person, but how can someone who uses a private jet in 2024 be considered a decent person by any stretch?
Having such a ludicrously unsustainable lifestyle in a climate emergency that will kill millions and displace hundreds of millions in just a few decades is a crime against humanity, change my mind.
The same way a pediatric heart surgeon who also drives a Land Rover can be considered a decent person. People shouldn’t be judged on a single data point.
A land rover isn’t nearly as polluting and doesn’t drive nearly as far. More importantly, the heart surgeon isn’t a role model in terms of lifestyle aspirations for literally hundreds of millions of followers.
People shouldn’t be judged on a single data point.
It’s not like we’re talking about stealing some sweets from children or something. Climate change just gets worse and worse and worse until we reach net zero co2 emissions. As long as it’s culturally accepted to cause massive amounts of completely unnecessary emissions, we don’t have the slightest chance of fixing this.
The only way a decent person could be doing this is if they were completely uneducated about climate change and their impact as a role model.
Do you really think Taylor Swift not having a private plane is going to do anything about climate change when the real problem is major corporations?
When 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions, why is Taylor Swift to be treated as a pariah because she has a private plane?
Neither the doctor nor Taylor Swift would make the tiniest dent in climate change if they gave those things up and we need to stop blaming individuals when it isn’t individuals who are the problem unless those individuals are running one of those 100 companies. Which Taylor Swift is not.
There’s always a supplier and a consumer. The pollution of these 100 corporations is caused on behalf of their customers who fund them in exchange for fossil fuels, directly or indirectly. They are both responsible, it’s 2 sides of the same coin.
Of course, much of this pollution isn’t really avoidable at this point. We can’t have 100% renewable power and electric cars tomorrow. Some really polluting industries will take decades to decarbonize, like steel and cement production. But this makes it even more urgent to adress the low hanging fruit asap, i.e. big sources of pollution that can easily be cut. Private jets are a prime example.
You could say just a few private jet flights or chopping down one single forest won’t make a dent in global carbon emissions, but that doesn’t mean that thousands around the world can keep on doing it indefinitely without consequences for all of us. Especially if they are idols for millions of people, normalizing harm to society that we can’t afford.
LOL 15 downvotes at time of this comment for you daring to say that she was wrong.
I think they’re downvoting me for saying she’s a generally decent person considering some of the replies I’ve gotten.
There is definitely some brigading going on.
Whatever. If people don’t like Taylor Swift it doesn’t bother me. To be honest, I’ve only ever heard one of her songs all the way through. She just has done plenty of good things. This is one of the few things I’ve heard about her that wasn’t her being a decent person.
I have also never knowingly heard her music. It’s not that I avoid her, I just have never listened to pop music in lieu of jazz, classical, or world. But she does seem to be an upstanding person for the most part.
Well, we got some overriding scenario blasting away all nuance.
It’s hard to be sympathetic toward a fundamental privacy limitation associated with flying in a plane exclusively owned by you. So in this context, it’s easy to equate “Leave Taylor alone!” with "it’s sad how she can’t fly in her private jet without being tracked, there’s nothing she can do!’
Now broadly speaking, I get that a lot of unreasonable piling on is coming with it, but the private jet is a symbol of excess and environmental harm and it’s inherently a risk to hop into that whole mess. Particularly when she could charter private flights to the same effect without the tracking (still excess and environmental harm, but at least obfuscated from public eye a bit).
I never said she should be left alone or that it’s sad that she can’t fly without being tracked.
I don’t care if she can be tracked when she flies. I said she was in the wrong here. All I said was that she generally comes across as a decent person.
Yeah, unfortunately, it’s the internet so we don’t take kindly to nuance around here.
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Never meet your heroes.
I don’t listen to her music, I’d hardly call her my hero.
our hero.
Okay
LOL 6 downvotes as of this comment. Fans are gonna fan I guess.
Im seeing ~300 up
It was positive even when I commented, I was just surprised at the number of downvotes.
Woman who made over a billion being a public figure upset she is now a public figure.
Sorry, no privacy for private jets. I don’t care about the “danger.” She can fly commercial in business class or first class if she wants privacy.
Didn’t the richest person in the world try to do this exact same thing? I’m still convinced it’s the reason he bought Twitter. Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that. No one is going to be putting military grade radar equipment on a Boeing 757 if they can’t even stop the doors from opening mid flight.
Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that.
One way to prevent being personally identified is to not fly around in your own personal jet and use one of the many other available options that aren’t trackable this way.
Trains are cool. Maybe not private trains, but we all need to make sacrifices.
Private trains are still a thing and they can be very luxurious.
Musk is an idiot but that’s not why he bought Twitter, especially when he balked at the idea of paying $10k instead of his offered $5k to do the same thing.
No, Musk bought twitter for a much, much more stupid reason.
You’re* not going to change that.
I’m on team Florida student.
Same.
Track them all. Elon. Other Billionaires. Government using our taxes for private planes.
But flight data is available - this guy just labels her N number and filters the data in a creepy way. I get that it’s probably causing her danger to have stalkers waiting at the destination for her - but those stalkers always had access to this flight data.
Seems like a workaround for Taylor would be to not own a plane and charter a different one every time. (Or do something actually environmentally minded :/)
“We want the artist to perform near us, all of us,but we don’t want them to be on planes in a way that makes that possible.”
There are plenty of ways to get someplace that don’t involve owning your own personal jet.
I don’t care if she tours or not, but I know for a fact my favorite bands either rent a bus or fly commercial.
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I agree, I think you’re being down voted by the people who cheered on the Elon musk tracking kid. Sure it might be legal but I think everyone can all agree they wouldn’t want this done to themselves.
Fuck billionaires
Way to kill the goodwill you’ve been gaining Taylor
Ehh, she is still human. She is one of the most recognizable and sought after a celebrities we’ve seen in a very long time. It must be absolutely horrible to be 24/7 in the public eye. But you can’t fight it and she hasn’t learned that yet. Try not to blame her, just be glad we got a level of goodwill that you don’t find in most celebrities, and hope that it continues.
I feel you. Makes sense to me.
I wonder why someone hasn’t started a Part 135 for celebrities that way they can’t be tracked per se. Rent out planes instead of being owned by any one celebrity.
You can totally charter private jets bud.
Her lawyers must be crazy to think they can get anything done that elon couldn’t. Taylor should be mad at her PR for not stopping her if she asked for this personally.
As for private jets. People with wealth, use that wealth to find an alternative. God knows you haven’t found anything else to do with it.
Edit: Also, please let it be zeppelin technology.
They could invest in whole new rail lines with their own private cars and fill the other cars with low cost seats. Tons of people on it and no way reasonable way of tracking them because so many people boarding it each time.
(Top: Taylor Swift’s private jet – or at least the same model, a Dassault Falcon 900. Bottom: JP Morgan’s private Pullman railcar.)
Dude dirigibles are STUPID EFFICIENT because they don’t have to fly. They just float so you only need some tiny little fans to move them in the direction you like. I really do wish they’d come back
Airships; When you want to be as fast as an ocean liner, as cheap as an airplane, and as subtle as a train.
Hello, airplanes? It’s blimps, you win!
For the last time! It’s filled with HELIUUUUUUUUM…
Why did they go away?
Something something oh the humanity…
It can’t be just that.
(I despise the “something something” meme, but that’s another story.)
Well, that’s a big one. Hydrogen is a much more available element to pump up an airship, and with hydrogen effectively off the table, then helium which if used at scale would be a problem, and it’s already a bit of a problem as it is.
Aside from that, it forever shaped public perception, so airships have an uphill battle.
But it’s still a thing, the butt-looking Airlander wants to bring back the airship. Their ‘10’ model however has half the cargo payload of a 737. Their more hypothetical ‘50’ would compete with an A300 on Cargo, which is respectable. However the top speed is 85mph, so 6 times slower than a typical cargo aircraft. However it may be able to tout versatility closer to a tractor trailer, they do still need a landing area, but not so much a runway. Tractor trailers are often used for long haul despite not being able to go 85mph, and definitely not ‘as the crow flies’.
Put simply, there are no “good billionaires”.
If you travel in the same plane all the time, and you own that plane, people will be able to track you. Why not just get a good contract with a private jet company so you can fly anonymously? Even if she wins this case, she will still be trackable until she takes advantage of any of the options she has at her disposal.
It’s public information. If you have a problem then stop flying around in your fancy fucking jet.
God damn rich people. Fuck em all.
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Maybe not the best idea to pattern yourself after Musk.
ADS-B data is public. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy. I grew to respect her recently, but in this matter, she is full of shit.
Looks like someone doesn’t know how transponders work.
Understandable I guess: It’s not really something most people know anything about, but you’d think someone working for her would’ve been like, “Yeah, no, that’s not really how aviation works, they are public by design” before it got to the point where a legal threat was made.
They know how it works, but they also know the average person won’t go against a billionaire and the army of lawyers they can afford. It’s a scare tactic.
Yeah, that seems pretty probable, especially for someone with such a manicured public persona. Still though, they don’t really have a legal leg to stand on no matter how many lawyers they throw at it.
Yeah, but if the cat is out of the bag with respect to her tail number, then it’s just some rando typing in a random tail number in a flight tracking database. You don’t have to be setting up a dedicated service to do this, just using publicly available stuff that would let you track a random delta flight just as easily as some celebs private plane.
Unless you start declaring the public tracking databases must honor requests to filter ‘special’ tail numbers from queries.
Elon Part II
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Elon.
