Musk bans live location sharing, says he’ll sue creator of plane-tracking bot
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Elon Musk said he's taking legal action against the creator of a Twitter bot that tracked his private jet, and he has changed Twitter's rules to ban sharing of live locations in most scenarios.
Musk has completely reversed his pledge since November 6, when he wrote that his "commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk." As reported yesterday, the Musk-led Twitter suspended the ElonJet account that used publicly available data to track Musk's plane and suspended the personal account of ElonJet creator Jack Sweeney.
The Twitter suspensions-which also affected other plane-tracking accounts run by Sweeney-occurred one day after Musk said a car carrying his son X AE A-XII was followed by a stalker. Revealing his plan to sue Sweeney, Musk wrote on Wednesday night: