Despite Elon Musk’s free speech pledge, Twitter bans account that tracked his jet

Despite Elon Musk’s free speech pledge, Twitter bans account that tracked his jet

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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/12/14/twitter-suspends-account-that-tracked-musks-private-jet-despite-billionaires-free-speech-pledge/

Twitter has suspended an account that tracked the location of Elon Musk’s private jet. The suspension comes despite Musk last month tweeting, “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk.”

The @ElonJet account was run by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old student at University of Central Florida, who used publicly available flight tracking information to build a Twitter bot that tweeted every time Musk’s Gulfstream took off and landed at an airport.