I’m on team Florida student.
Same.
Track them all. Elon. Other Billionaires. Government using our taxes for private planes.
What a friendly billionaire.
Maybe not the best idea to pattern yourself after Musk.
That image almost looks like she has no arms
Would probably take all of 10 minute to find porn of that.
She’s going for that Def Leopard aesthetic
Too soon
Haha funny optical illusion. Could you imagine if she had no arms on top of no spine?
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.”
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.
There are plenty of ways to get someplace that don’t involve owning your own personal jet.
I found the peasant who doesn’t own a private jet, LOL. Get with the times.
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.
Well, yes, but I think we can at least acknowledge when public information is used to harass. Home addresses are identifiable via public tax records, but it would obviously be different if someone posted your home address and reported in real time whether or not you’re inside. We all know people actively want to stalk and harass her, and anyone making it easier to do so maybe shouldn’t, even though it’s technically legal. If someone drove around and picked up everyone who has explicitly said they’d like to rape or kill her, and dropped them off at her doorstep with knives and guns, I hope we’d all agree that’s pretty fucked up and shouldn’t be condoned.
It’s a bit like the difference between having a gun stolen out of a safe and having a gun stolen out of an unlocked car that was left parked overnight in a crowded shopping mall. Yeah, the direct culprit might have stolen it one way or another, but there’s also at least some culpability for the person who made it easy for them to steal it, and potentially later inflict harm. I’m not saying Sweeney should be charged with a crime, of course, but doxxing is poor form for a very good reason, and civil suits can be brought for all kinds of harm (direct or indirect) which are caused by actions that are otherwise legal. In the age of worldwide social media, these are boundaries that we can discuss with nuance, rather than dismissing them out of hand because the rules currently allow unfettered abuse.
If someone drove around and picked up everyone who has explicitly said they’d like to rape or kill her, and dropped them off at her doorstep with knives and guns, I hope we’d all agree that’s pretty fucked up and shouldn’t be condoned.
We have legal ramifications for that already. That’s being an accomplice in the commission of attempted murder. And the rest of your comment is mostly the exact same thing, we have laws for when we cross a particular line.
The thing is the publishing flight information on a social media site isn’t technically crossing a line. Now I’ll tell everyone here the same thing I said with Musk’s whole thing. As citizens, we have to lobby for any of those lines to be redrawn. That’s the same thing here. Should we place that line elsewhere? Maybe, maybe not. But that’s for us to dictate.
But as it stands, we can extrapolate all kinds of bad things that could come to pass and a lot of those are very illegal. But at the moment, what the person is doing is distinctly not illegal. Should it be? Maybe. But it is currently not. Can it lead to bad things? Yes. That’s kind of with anything in terms of public information.
The balance that is traditionally struck, is a balance between the public’s need to know and an individual’s right to privacy. There’s not hard and fast rules on where we put the line on that and finding the right spot today for that line, doesn’t mean that it’s the right spot for it tomorrow. Society changes and sometimes our laws must change with it. Sometimes it shouldn’t change. But that’s for us the Citizens to direct.
In the age of worldwide social media
And I’m just going to say this is with a LOT of things. At the moment our laws woefully handle social media because it’s just so new and law takes so long to catch up. But that’s what I was getting at with Elon Tracker back in the day. Musk can go to the Government to ask for laws to be updated, not get petty and ban folks off his social media site. Now Musk has every right to ban who he deems fit to be banned. It is absolutely his ship to wreck here. But it was pretty petty when Musk could have channeled a lot of that energy into getting new laws enacted and we could have avoided this whole thing with Swift. And Swift seems to be mulling litigation rather than actually reforming laws, which means this will inevitably happen again and again and again.
The solution is to get our laws up to speed with our society. And thus far from Musk and Swift there’s been every indication that people with the means to actually get a face-to-face with members of select committees in the House and Senate, are opting to take the whole thing personally than an opportunity to do good for the Nation at large. That’s my issue with the Rich on this. All of these folks thus far have taken these things personally, and rightly so because crazy people hunting you down can absolutely trigger that self preservation instinct, but there’s also a chance for them to look past how this affects just them. But we have yet to see any move in that direction without it being like Musk in the first bits of it before he banned Elon Tracker, calling for the FAA to just be completely done away with. That’s clearly not a solution that the public at large should be okay with. So for Musk, there’s likely a middle ground he could reach between where we are and a complete dismantling of Government regulations.
And for the public discourse on this, that’s my issue because it seems that public discussion on the matters related to this, start veering off into maximums and ignoring any kind of slight changes in current regulatory power. It starts becoming discussions of “oh my god so and so could be killed and here’s a what if indicating the path one COULD take to cause harm.” And yeah, those are interesting to say the least thought experiments, but they are not addressing the issue of widely disseminating that information. Something that could be resolved with new rules indicating that FAA transponder information and matchup databases operate under a limited distribution model. So one can reproduce the data for personal consumption, but cannot reproduce the data wide consumption. Much like the same way the NFL (because we’re talking Swift here so apt entity to pull in) says you can have a Super Bowl party but you cannot have a projector for your entire neighborhood. There’s a middle somewhere and I’m not going to pretend I have all the answers, but just running the extremes doesn’t talk about that middle. That’s my issue with the Public on this.
We have legal ramifications for that already. That’s being an accomplice in the commission of attempted murder.
Well yes, but only if the person attempts murder. If no attempt is made, there’s no crime for which the other is serving as an accomplice.
Should we place that line elsewhere? Maybe, maybe not. But that’s for us to dictate.
100% agree with this and the other two paragraphs. That’s why I’m asking these questions and trying to have a more in depth conversation than the rest of the people in this thread. I don’t know where the line is, but I’m not comfortable completely washing our hands of this until violence actually erupts. The threat alone should be enough for us to discuss the problem. Just as the threat of violence from Trump’s words is enough for us to discuss the problem, and we need not wait for his followers to break a law to condemn his rhetoric. Same kind of deal here. I don’t have to wait until someone tries to kill Taylor Swift to say that there might be a problem with streaming her location in real time.
But it was pretty petty when Musk could have channeled a lot of that energy into getting new laws enacted and we could have avoided this whole thing with Swift. And Swift seems to be mulling litigation rather than actually reforming laws, which means this will inevitably happen again and again and again.
Actually hadn’t thought of this. On second thought, I do think there’s a more constructive way to do this, and I wish high profile figures would do more to participate constructively in the political process so we don’t keep having to fight this based on personality type and affiliation.
Something that could be resolved with new rules indicating that FAA transponder information and matchup databases operate under a limited distribution model. So one can reproduce the data for personal consumption, but cannot reproduce the data wide consumption. Much like the same way the NFL (because we’re talking Swift here so apt entity to pull in) says you can have a Super Bowl party but you cannot have a projector for your entire neighborhood. There’s a middle somewhere and I’m not going to pretend I have all the answers, but just running the extremes doesn’t talk about that middle. That’s my issue with the Public on this.
I hear that loud and clear, and can’t say I disagree with any of it. Thanks for engaging respectfully and helping me understand a different perspective.
If it’s not safe for people to use publicly available information then it shouldn’t be publicly available. No one was worried about it when it was used to call Musk out. Or the 1000s of people dealing with stalkers that aren’t famous enough for anyone to give a fuck about. Either protect everyone or don’t. You can’t just single out the rich white girls.
I didn’t. Who are you arguing against?
My point is just going after this guy isn’t going to fix the root of the problem. If him being able to do this is an issue then the information he is accessing should be restricted. Just making him stop won’t prevent the next person from doing it to someone else.
I don’t disagree. He’s already had his Swift-specific accounts booted from Facebook, Instagram, and Xitter and started posting instead to his “Celeb Jets” FB and IG accounts, so it’s clear he’s going to play the cat-and-mouse game indefinitely.
But again, I didn’t say a single thing about singling out rich white girls. That was a strawman you made up out of whole cloth.
That was meant more as a general statement to all the people who are up in arms about this but were jerking themselves off when it happened to musk a while back.
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.
99.999 percent of us here would never have this problem because we will never be close to owning a private jet, even if we wanted to for some reason. I also think most of us here agree that owning a private jet is selfish, and since its kind of a problem brought on by her own selfishness, it’s kind of hard to feel bad for her.
People who don’t have private jets get doxxed and harassed all the time because this story or that went viral. If you made a boneheaded comment to someone on the street that was recorded and uploaded, and the internet mob came for your blood, and someone made it their own personal mission to track your every move 24 hours a day, some of us would come to your defense and suggest that they might should stop for your safety. The rest of the mob would take the, “fuck you, it’s public” line you’re taking, and you’d probably have a hard time convincing them to give a shit.
The federal government will take publicly available information and if it is bundled up with enough other information it is still considered classified and you can still (if you hold any sort of clearance) be in trouble for sharing that classified bundle.
Which is just to say there is legal precedent agreeing with your point, although AFAIK that responsibility only applies to folks who have already agreed to responsibly handle confidential information.
Yeah I don’t think it’s unreasonable to discuss harm avoidance here. There are likely workarounds she can employ, but it’s sad that people seem to be taking the stance that “fuck her, it’s public” is the end of the conversation. Maybe her lawyers know something we don’t about what kind of harm this is actually causing. It’s easy to cheer for Sweeney when he’s giving the middle finger to a jackass like Elon Musk, but I find it harder to stand in his “I do it because fuck you” corner when he’s weaponizing information against others who aren’t huge assholes.
Speech is protected, but threats are not. Online shit talking is protected, but cyberbullying is widely condemned. As a society we need to figure out where the line is between what’s allowable and what’s highly discouraged. “It’s legal” isn’t a useful cut off for these kinds of discussions, because we’ve recently come up with all kinds of state laws to punish stalkers when their behavior crosses the line from benign to unwelcome to harmful. Stalkers can be held criminally liable for using telephone calls, letters, telegraphs, delivery of packages or engaging in any conduct which interferes or intrudes on another’s privacy or liberty, all of which are completely legal and acceptable behaviors except when they’re employed to threaten or harass.
I always figured the point of tracking her, just like Musk, was commentary on the incredible waste that is the private jet industry. The politics of the person matter far less than the environmental consequences of their actions.
I don’t disagree, but if obsessed incels are using this to assist in stalking and harassing her and it poses an immediate risk to her safety, then it obviously takes on a more immediate meaning than whether or not people can use it to shame her for being environmentally reckless.
Obsessed incels have been and will be stalking no matter if there’s flight data or not. This isn’t about that.
They will, and it is. That doesn’t mean we should willingly and gleefully make it easier for them to inflict harm.
There’s a difference between the data being available and it being broadcasted, which is probably what her argument would attempt to stand on if it went to court
But data brokers are doing this to all of us, all the time.
There is also a difference between paywalling info behind a company that only three letter agencies and targeting advertising firms will even know the name of most of the time, and broadcasting that information on social media.
Why should corporate entities get to stalk you more successfully or more permissively than anyone else?
They shouldn’t, but they also use a method that’s a lot more tedious and annoying for a rando to use than just being able to see it on Twitter, which is like, 99% of the definition of “more secure”
I guess a workaround for the guy posting the data (if he is forced to stop) would be to instead just post the distance traveled and CO2 emissions for every flight. That’s still shaming her for being an environmental asshole while avoiding issues with stalkers or whatever their defense is.
How is it creepy? It’s activism.
This person is a hell of a lot more useful to the world than some billionaire piece of shit.
Just because it’s done to a woman it’s suddenly “creepy”. Don’t think anyone ever called that guy creepy when it was done to Elon.
As an activist tool, a simple ‘miles flown’ counter would do it without the ‘creepy’ facet of knowing her general whereabouts at all times.
Of course, as a more mundane person without a private plane or cash to fly much, anyone who cares to know what airport I’m closest to just knows the answer is almost always the one nearest my home city… So in a sense I have no more privacy than Swift, since this only lets you know what airport she last left from and presumably is closest to, which is vague enough to describe 99% of my time just by sitting still.
Looking forward to her new, highly-relatable single, “Why you gotta track my jet?”
Sure Ms. Swift, act like Muskrat.
Stop using the jet and this don’t be an issue lol
ADS-B data is public. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Looks like someone doesn’t know how transponders work.
Understandable I guess, but you’d think someone working for her would’ve been like, “Yeah, no, that’s not really how aviation works” 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.
Especially now with newspapers reporting that Taylor Swift is seen as a ‘danger to Republican norms’ (per USA TODAY copy, Feb 2 - 4), this is an especially dangerous position to put her in. Republicans are starting to claim she is swaying the country away from their “values” (whatever those might be) and they are looking at her as an enemy of our country.
So the person doing this might have innocent motives, but it could lead to horribly disastrous results, and he could also be jailed for doing this. So I’m glad she’s taking some legal action up front if only to protect herself and show that she is unwilling to be made a victim of other people’s nutjob bigotry.
We may have reached peak Taylor now that she is making a show of dating that football player. She intrigued me for a while but now I mostly cringe.
Yeah I don’t really know anything about her except her music isn’t really my thing. I recently gave it another shot but every song felt kinda ragey and judgey in an unexpected way. It falls in this “quite literal but somehow unclear and never abstract” style of songwriting that to me is… yeah, cringey.
Her music never did much for me but that’s fine, that’s just me. But I heard she was supposed to be a good lyricist. It seemed to me she had some sharp lines here and there, with filler in between. I was more interested in her persona and how she hit back against the record labels and movie studios. She did a good job of that.
Yeah. Re-recording her album after the record label fucked her over was a genius and commendable move
he could also be jailed for doing this
My fucking ass lmao. It’s public information being posted on a public forum with no call to action whatsoever.
WRONG, asshole - it is NOT the public right to put someone in danger, and it never will be. And they’ve just posted on the national news that this person IS likely going to jail, so you’re wrong about that also. DUMBASS!!!
Dude made, essentially, a data visualization tool.
No more and no less.
If you want the data to be private, go after that. Stand up in front of us all, and argue “private jets deserve the privacy of any one of us”
Taylor Swift is a public figure that lives like royalty. At the level, I don’t think she gets to live normally. This isn’t even her - this is her publicist and/or lawyers, maybe responding to discomfort she’s personally expressed… I doubt she goes anywhere without bodyguards. I doubt she’s in real danger comparable to even most US politicians - the beetles were small time by her standards. She’s a corporation - she’s just the face of something enormous
Wow, seems you’re wrong about all kinds of stuff. Elon jet tracker for reference.
It seems your anger is at about 8/10 but I won’t accept that you’re right until you dial it out 10. Can you crank up your impotent, ignorant rage a bit more and then comment? You can do it, I believe in you.
Dude made, essentially, a data visualization tool.
No more and no less.
If you want the data to be private, go after that. Stand up in front of us all, and argue “private jets deserve the privacy of any one of us”
Taylor Swift is a public figure that lives like royalty. At the level, I don’t think she gets to live normally. This isn’t even her - this is her publicist and/or lawyers, maybe responding to discomfort she’s personally expressed… I doubt she goes anywhere without bodyguards. I doubt she’s in real danger comparable to even most US politicians - the beetles were small time by her standards. She’s a corporation - she’s just the face of something enormous
Her planes transponder is public information.
Alright you’ve been on a roll lately Swifty, but imma call you out; transponders are public information.
Its a bit more complicated than that.
Traffic cameras are usually publicly accessible. You are also, generally, allowed to take pictures of people when they are in public spaces where there is not an expectation of privacy.
So at what point of this is the line crossed?
- Seb in space’s car was spotted driving down Main Street at 4:13 pm on Tuesday
- Seb in space was next seen on 1st street at 4:15 pm
- …
- Seb in space was next seen turning off into the Hairy Palms apartment complex at 9:12 pm on Tuesday
- Seb in space was seen leaving the Hairy Palms apartment complex at 06:00 on Wednesday
That is where this gets pretty murky. Because we all more or less acknowledge that parparazzi taking pictures of everyone leaving an airport are assholes (unless it is about figuring out if The Rock is going to come do PR to distract people from the WWE sexual slavery scandal…). But we have no issue with knowing that without even needing to send someone over to see who got off the 1235 LAX->DFW flight.
And while my initial stance is “fuck the super-rich”: I am allegedly part of a private chat for “people in tech” to give each other a heads up if we see a CEO getting off a flight. Because if your boss is pretty regularly visiting Facebook HQ and not telling anyone? That is the sign that you need to refresh your CV because you might get layed off after an acquisition/merger. There are definitely business reasons for not making it trivial to track individuals.
So yeah. I am going to side on the stance of “if you need to travel secretly, wear sunglasses like the rest of us”. Or, if you are too famous to even risk that, at least use one of the private jet companies rather than owning your own. But I also think this is something that we need to actually consider from a legal and privacy standpoint and it is a lot more complex than that.
I don’t think your analogy works, because, as long as you know the plane’s identifier, you can just type it into a website and see where it is.
That’s all you have to do.
How do you get that identifier for Taylor Swift’s plane? That part I don’t know and maybe that part is where her case lies, but I have a feeling she has no case or Musk would have tried the same thing.
Anyone can write a trivially simple program to analyze license plates (or even car profiles) and feed it traffic cam footage. I’ve done that for poops and giggles (never pushed since it was sketchy). Have broadband and a few medium sized computers and you can process the entirety of a state’s traffic cameras. At which point, it is trivial to track 455M4N’s '92 buick.
That’s still not the same thing because the FAA is a federal organization and you’re talking about something you can only do in certain municipalities. Traffic camera footage is not available universally and a city may not even use them.
Hmm. Its almost like
But I also think this is something that we need to actually consider from a legal and privacy standpoint and it is a lot more complex than that.
Just because you can do something or it is even legal to do something doesn’t mean you “should”. That is why it is important to reassess laws and the like from time to time.
Where can I find live traffic cameras with high enough resolution to read license plates? I’ve only seen traffic cameras with something like 320x240 max.
You know how back in the day, Mythbusters would joke about “adding blah”? Or how a lot of chemistry and engineering youtubers won’t provide the exact specifics once they start working with a gun or something meth adjacent?
Its one of those things where if you have the basic understanding of how these systems work, you can find it pretty trivially (or work around things). And if you don’t? Then you really don’t need to know.
That’s a lot of words to avoid saying you’re talking out your ass.
“Yeah, I could totally tell you. Honest. Promise. No I can’t because… uh… I’d have to kill you.”
I see absolutely nothing wrong with any of that info being presented in that way
I feel like your example is way more granular than what is going on here. It’s more like ‘so and so has arrived at this city airport now’ and within an hour or two they could be anywhere in a fairly large radius without anyone reporting their location. Also there is the fact that this is ‘punching up’ which is often seen as ok.
I don’t pretend to have an answer here, but it’s hard to feel sorry for celebrities.
I am suspicious as to whether that is a “legit” site at all…
But yeah. Even mentioned below. It is REALLY not an insurmountable problem. But apparently people don’t understand why people might not want to give step by step instructions for how to do something that, in my opinion, is fundamentally “bad”. Can’t imagine what would happen if Mythbusters talked about “adding blah” or Burn Notice did the “and other stuff” short hand for “Yo dog, this shit is not something we should explain the details of”
I’m pretty sure that’s a legit site. It’s a product being sold by TransUnion which is one of the big credit reporting agencies.
That’s fair, but that’s a discussion about how accessible the info should be. If it’s public, it’s public, and the public has equal access to it. If it shouldn’t be that easy to access, we fix the system, not punish the users. And suing is punishment/aggression, regardless of the outcome. Self defense isn’t free.
Unfortunately, the way the legal system adapts is through precedent.
“Optimally”? That kid drops it before any legal action is actually followed up on (no harm, no foul). Then they and Swift work with the various lobbyist/activist groups to push this farther on their side.
Or the kid is an idiot and it goes to court and we begin the appeals escalation right then and there.
And transponders transmit. With a significant amount of power in fact.
Weird, it’s almost like they have to to have any usefulness.
At all.
You can’t stop the signal, Mal.
Yeah, she’s generally a decent person, but she’s just in the wrong here.
She’s generally good at managing her public persona, except when it comes to her
pollute more than a small city machineprivate jet addiction. When people show you who they really are, believe them.She has a very good PR manager to keep her in such a good image. You know there are hundreds of people rooting for her downfall and are waiting for every slip up.
Anything Taylor goes straight to front-page, despite my efforts to block it.
She also showed who she really was during the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes: someone who agrees to union demands, which was why she was allowed to release the best-selling concert movie of all time during the middle of the strikes.
On top of that, she got thousands of her fans registered to vote.
People are complicated.
“People are complicated.”
Very much agree with this sentiment. I feel, too often, this gets lost in discussions. People will do stuff we agree with, and then they’ll turn around and do something we disagree with. It’s fine to praise and simultaneously lambast 'em.
It’s pretty healthy, IMO. Seeing the fuzzy set of actions that people take that you agree with and don’t agree with as part of a whole person is a sign of maturity mentally.
Having to cleave people into “the Madonna” and “the whore” or the “good object” and the “bad object” is in the mix for a variety of mental problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
which was why she was allowed to release the best-selling concert movie of all time during the middle of the strikes.
When you put it like that, it doesn’t really sound like she was doing it out of the goodness of her heart.
Because she knew beforehand how it would do?
Yeah, I imagine she had someone crunch the numbers and figure out that it’s worth it to agree to the union’s demands to get a premiere in the middle of the strike AND the good PR. Sounds like a pretty safe bet.
Now mind you, I don’t really know anything about the situation beyond what I read in your comment. I don’t know what movie that was and I’m only somewhat aware there was a big strike in the entertainment industry in the USA. Just little pieces I caught here on Lemmy and maybe back on reddit too. I’m not claiming to have any particular insight into her motivations or anything, just that what you presented as her good side sounds very much like business acumen to me rather than philantropy.
Maybe I’m just a cynic.
I mean, just because she benefited doesn’t mean hundreds of others also didn’t.
Sure, I’m not saying it’s wrong what she did, just that it’s not a good way to judge her character.
I like that she singlehandedly proved the union demands were reasonable.
Not to take away from one of the most powerful people on the planet*, but a decent number of companies did that. I want to say A24 almost immediately agreed and that is why they were able to keep making films during the strike.
*: Jesus christ. How did Taylor Swift become one of the most powerful people on the planet?
*: Jesus christ. How did Taylor Swift become one of the most powerful people on the planet?
You ever tried saying no to a teenage daughter?
Also pulled her catalog from Spotify to protest their scummy royalty payouts. They changed the payouts for everyone as a result.
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 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.
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.
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.
nah shes a cunt like any other billionaire who deserves to be devoured by the starving masses.
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.
Never meet your heroes.
I don’t listen to her music, I’d hardly call her my hero.
our hero.
Is everyone else sick of hearing about T Swift? I don’t have anything against her, just don’t want to see or hear her any more.
lmao, this teen is a legend
Put simply, there are no “good billionaires”.
If this one action makes her a bad person, then there are no good people, which then of course would mean there are no good billionaires.
“that one action” lol
She is basically the worst case of private jet usage and leading the list of such individuals, while somehow advocating for the environment.
This is just ridiculous.
And she is trying to fuck that guy up for “stalking” and “harassment”, just for showing public data.
On top, for whatever reason, she had 2 private jets flying around until now. Seems like she sold one this month.
I’m don’t want to defend her use of a private her, but it seems like a ridiculous puritan test if that this makes her a bad human.
Just such an incredibly weird statement to make that Taylor Swift of all people is the threshold for finding any good in the world, and if she’s not it then no one is.
This is not at all what I said. I said the metric used here to paint Taylor Swift as a bad person requires a level of pureness that would mean pretty much everyone is a bad person.
I have no idea whether she is a good perspn, but I do know that “she flies in a private jet and her lawyers sued someone because they claim it is a threat to her safety… So she’s a bad person!” Is a terrible argument.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
We all suck, there’s no good in humans. Maybe we should stop looking at humans, dogs might be a good place to start after all the comments I’ve heard about us not deserving them.
Where we disagree is that I don’t think all humans are bad. We all do sucky things from time to time; no one is pure. Additionally it’s often hard to see why someone might do something if you don’t share the same experiences, so it might seem evil to you.
What I see happening here is that people want to hate her because she’s rich, and by golly anything they can latch onto to confirm that desire to be true will be trotted out.
But we certainly agree dogs are pimp.
The irony of “all billionaires bad” is that Taylor Swift earned that money through album sales and live touring. She wasn’t actively exploiting the labor of workers in order to be rich, she is just that popular.
And before everyone jumps down my ass about my opinion sounding too conservative for Lemmy, I invite you to check out my post history.
She wasn’t actively exploiting the labor of workers in order to be rich
What a sad state of affairs that you feel the need to “defend” yourself by claiming you’re not conservative. What the hell happened that we can’t have differing opinions without making blanket disclaimers?
The thousands of people making those records sell and shows happen:
There is no self made billionaire, a billion is an absurd amount of wealth a singular person cannot actually earn or be worth.
“To make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” ~Carl Sagan
People payed $2,000 a ticket to see Taylor perform… that was their decision.
you think she get’s that $2000? how naive.
Does she get more than a performer who’s ticket is $100?
i have no idea, but it’s not Taylor swift that’s selling those tickets for that much, it’s ticketmaster/stubhub and the like. she likely gets X amount from the venue to play there and the ticket sales all go to the venue. that’s the way it worked at the 4 day music festivals I’ve worked at. we paid the performers X amount, that had ZERO to do with how much we were charging for tickets. They got no portion of our sales.
That’s how it is. Artists from the calibre of TS get a fixed amount of money for a complete tour contract from the tour management. Regardless how many tickets are sold or whatever the tickets cost. The tour management is responsible to manage everything with the venues, the ticket sale companies, and all subcontractors like stage riggers etc.
He’s talking about all the people working at the label and concert agency. Do you think the technicians and riggers whot take care of all the audio, light and show effects get more money at her concerts? What about the people doing the security, check-in, cleaning and so on?
Try having a concert without any of these. There is hundreds of people working to make stadion concerts happen.
… they do that for all the acts… doesn’t have much to do with how rich any particular performer is.
Your arguement was, she wouldn’t exploit other peoples labor. But in fact she does very much so.
She would be nothing without the labor of all those people, yet they see scarps of what she makes.
She has a specific reputation for supporting the workers who work her shows.
it absolutely does. every single worker that works under any labor agreement is making less than what their labor is worth. capitalism only works when you can make money off of how much someone is worth and not pay them the full amount. there is no incentive in capitalism to pay people what they are truly worth because that would mean no profit. she also profits off of countless years of technological advancements made by underpaid workers that allow her to have the production value and presence she has. i really find it hard to believe that people can’t just see the plainness of how this labor thing works. why would anyone start a business if they couldnt profit off of their workers?
What you are saying is generally true in practice, but not an absolute feature of labor agreements. In the simplest case, two people working together can create more value/profit than each working individually.
A genius programmer and a genius game designer will do better together than apart, and there are a lot of reasons why they might organize so that one owns the business and the other takes a paycheck. Add in a graphic artist, an audio engineer, etc, and they are probably not all interested in becoming part of the business.
On the other side of the scale are publicly owned corporation where holding stock has nothing to do with generating value or profits. That is the heart of what makes capitalism capitalism, when the possession of sufficient capital produces leverage over workers and inherently unfair compensation.
