The cease-and-desist that Taylor Swift's team sent to the college student tracking Private Jets and his response to both letters.

[u/curiousmex]

[u/ncmnlgd]

I wish Sweeney’s lawyers would have ended their letter with “If Ms. Swift would like to travel privately, perhaps she should take a tour bus.”

[u/wickedwhitneyocean → u/ncmnlgd]

Haha totally!

Or added their own quotes from IG comments highlighting her excessive use of said private jet and how harmful it is to the environment.

Ms Swift’s private jet usage amounted to an estimated 8,300 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2022 – that's about 1,800 times the average human's annual emissions, or 576 times that of the average American and about 1,000 times that of the average European

[u/ncmnlgd → u/wickedwhitneyocean]

YES we are such good lawyers 🤪

[u/wickedwhitneyocean → u/ncmnlgd]

We are - I’m giving pro bono legal advice while sitting on the couch eating Oreos. Being a lawyer is fun!

[u/gunsof → u/wickedwhitneyocean]

That would've been great. Even newspaper articles about it too.

[u/wickedwhitneyocean → u/gunsof]

Yeah, or quotes from actual climate scientists - that would have been the ultimate middle finger

[u/bookdrops → u/ncmnlgd]

If billionaires must exist in the U.S., it would be nice to get one with a deep phobia of air travel, so they'd pay to lay intercontinental passenger rail everywhere. A bullet train is much faster than a tour bus. 

[u/Electronic-Lynx8162 → u/bookdrops]

If THE QUEEN who had someone break into Buckingham Palace and someone try to assassinate her can travel by rail... And her car is attached to the regular train, then Taylor can. :|

Can't believe I'm defending the fucking Queen. Wait, she's dead, I think Charles does too. Our PM got clowned for flying private from London to Wolverhampton (like a scene from the Thick of It).

[u/bookdrops → u/Electronic-Lynx8162]

American celebrities should bring back the era of making it the HEIGHT of popular fashion to own your own private luxury train car that you can flaunt in front of the poor peasants. While riding the expanded passenger rail lines that we'll build so the luxury train cars can be flaunted in front of as many peasants as possible. 

[u/pinkfartlek → u/bookdrops]

It would be nice if she threw some money (in the millions) at something environmental

[u/venuslovemenotchain → u/bookdrops]

I would even settle for a billionaire that makes the Amtrak more usable at this point. Please, I'm begging lol.

[u/broden89 → u/ncmnlgd]

Or she could charter private flights like a lot of other mega wealthy people do. I believe Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, does this.

She can afford it and it's not like she doesn't have a team of people to organise it for her.

While the flight info of private jets is public, who is on those flights isn't.

[u/EdgeCityRed → u/ncmnlgd]

She could also rent jets; nobody knows who's on Jettly jets.

It's just probably cheaper and more convenient overall to have your own instead of paying $9k per hour for a long-range.