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ChirpingElon Musk preaches free speech and bans account tracking his jet
On Wednesday, the short message service blocked the @elonjet page. Twenty-year-old Jack Sweeney had posted there the flight details of the new Twitter boss’s private jet.
The @elonjet channel was created by 20-year-old Jack Sweeney.
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If you now want to recall the account, you will get a message that the account has been blocked “for violating Twitter rules”.
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Twenty-year-old Jack Sweeney maintains various Twitter accounts with publicly available flight data of prominent personalities.
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Elon Musk’s flight data account has been blocked since Wednesday.
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Through November, Musk said he would not suspend the account, even if the site posed an immediate personal safety risk.
The user rules adopted by Elon Musk Twitter short message service they turned out to be opaque once again. Twitter has suspended the @elonjet account of a user who leaked the publicly available flight details of Musk’s private jet. Tweets from the account with more than 526,000 followers were no longer visible on Wednesday.
Owner Jack Sweeney told the AP that when he logged in, he was shown a message on Twitter saying his account for violation of the rules be permanently blocked. It was not explained what rules he had broken. He had filed a complaint against the ban, but has heard no more. Twitter initially did not respond to requests for comment.
“Musk offered me $5,000 to cancel my account”
Sweeney, 20, said he created the @elonjet account because he was interested in Musk as a Tesla and SpaceX fan. Musk offered him $5,000 last year to delete the @elonjet account, citing security concerns. After Musk bought Twitter in late October, the latter assured him that the account would not be suspended. “My commitment to free speech goes so far as not to suspend the account following my plane, even if it poses an immediate personal safety risk,” Musk tweeted in early November.
Sweeney now said, “He says it’s freedom of expression and he does the opposite.” The programmer and student runs similar accounts using the flight data of other celebrities such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and some Russian oligarchs. These were still available on Twitter Wednesday, as were Sweeney’s Facebook and Instagram accounts with details of Musk’s flight.
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