Chirping suspended this Wednesday several accounts that shared publicly accessible location data on the private planes of several billionairesincluding the CEO of the social network, Elon Muskwhich he said he would undertake legal action against the holder of said accounts for having caused damage to his familyanother sign that the Tesla founder has become the singular arbiter of rules on the social platform.
Accounts @ElonJet has been suspended for the first time on Wednesday morning without warning or explanation, despite having been there previously noted by Musk as the type of account Twitter will continue to allow as part of its commitment to “free speech”.
Later that same day, Twitter briefly restore the account after announcing changes to its content policy, which now prohibits users from sharing someone’s current location, despite the fact that flight tracking data is publicly available.
the bill was stuck again a few hours lateralong with others who shared the position of private planes owned by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Russian oligarchs and many more.
Then the social deleted Jack Sweeney’s personal accountthe 20-year-old who ran these accounts, as Musk appeared to blame him for an alleged attack by a “crazy stalker” on a car carrying his young son X Æ A-Xii in Los Angeles.
Musk added that “they’re taking lawsuit against Sweeney and the organizations that claimed the harm to my family«.
In another tweet, the Twitter CEO called it “doxing“and of”breach of physical security“the fact of real-time sharing of publicly available flight datathe disclosure of which is required by the Federal Aviation Administration.
“Any account that provides real-time location information about someone will be suspended, as it is a violation of physical security. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location information. Posting places someone has traveled to with a slight delay it’s not a safety issue, so it’s okay,” the entrepreneur shares on his personal account on the social network.
New Twitter Policy
In a statement explaining the reasons behind this latest privacy policy change, Twitter said: “When someone shares a person’s live location on Twitter, the risk of bodily harm increases. From now on, we will remove comments that share this information and accounts dedicated to sharing another person’s live location will be suspended.”
Without mentioning Musk, Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, criticized the new policy, tweeting: “For me, suppressing my personal information means protecting my physical safety. Deleting your personal information is an unacceptable violation of freedom of expression«.
