Chirping Wednesday suspended the account of 19-year-old Jack Sweeney from Florida and the “ElonJet” profile he founded, which showed a private jet flying by Elon Musk. Just before the lockdown, the account numbered around 500,000. followers. Chirping he also suspended all his other profiles on this one platform.
Elon Musk blocks accounts. Talk about a “breach of physical security”
New the owner of Twitter Elon Musk briefly explained his decision on the blocks. “Any account that doxxes anyone’s real-time location information will be suspended as it constitutes a physical security breach. This includes posting links to websites with real-time location information,” he explained in the post.
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Doxxing is the collection and publication of, for example, personal data or other private information. In another entry, the billionaire announced that “legal action is ongoing against Sweeney and the organizations that supported the loss of my family.”
Elon Musk defended free speech. Is Twitter risking censorship?
Apparently even Elon Musk has changed his mind on this issue. In early November 2022 he stated that he would not block the ElonJet profile. He said that in this way he wanted to engage in free speech on the Internet. Previously, however, he tried to bribe the creator of the account to delete the profile. Jack Sweeney, however, refused.
“My commitment to free speech also extends to not blocking my followers’ accounts airplaneeven if it poses a direct threat to personal safety,” he wrote. Can we now say that Elon Musk supports censorship after all?
