Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.

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    bill that was passed last week will allow private aircraft owners to anonymize their registration information

    Private planes fly anonymously? Even if order and justice was restored to the world, we couldn’t find the next Epstein’s island.

    And how will this affect drug trafficking? If you can’t trace private planes, it becomes the Wild West.

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    It’s about Swift and not one of the richest people in the world who lives in the kleptocracy that passed this legislation and historically has made a big fuss over this issue?

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    Congress is working on issues that matter to the American people.

    Like making sure the wealthy are even less accountable.

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      Its the Tragedy of the Commons. No single individual really has an incentive to stop flying, outside of the marginal impact on PR. So everyone just says its someone else’s problem.

      The FAA is toothless. The EPA is toothless. The individual industry leaders are more legally beholden to shareholders than any regulatory body. Even in aggregate, the emission volume of flights pale beside the emissions caused by coal stacks and automotive emissions and bunker fuel from bulk cargo shipping, so its the billionaire equivalent of saying “At least I’m recycling” when pushed about what you’re doing to curb greenhouse gases.

      At the end of the day, what we need is a comprehensive investment in high speed mass transit. But fossil fuel companies hate that. Aeronautics companies hate that. Politicians fixated on quarterly budget figures hate that. And the folks that would actually build rail in this country no longer exist.

      So whatchagonna do? Shrug, blame “the system”, and go with the flow because everyone else is doing it.

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    4 months ago

    This is going to help bring down everyday prices, stop Genocide and will ensure another Epstein type billionaire who privately flies people to his pedophile island will receive swift Justice!

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    So if the only thing hidden is the airplanes ID seems like it would still be relatively easy to have a program sift through the data.2

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        Personally I don’t care where celebrities are at any given time. But I do think it’s interesting, for example to see how international climate summits are some of the biggest environmental impacts as far as carbon footprint etc for example, or seeing how celebrities take personal jets to go to the convenience store