Twitter bans @ElonJet’s creator and hyperlinks to different Elon Jet trackers

Hours after suspending @ElonJet, an account that tracked the journeys taken by Elon Musk’s non-public airplane, Twitter has now banned the account’s creator, Jack Sweeney. Twitter can be blocking hyperlinks to variations of the tracker on different platforms, like Instagram and Facebook.

If you try to go to Sweeney’s account, you’ll see a message that the account has been suspended. Attempting to tweet sure hyperlinks to Sweeney’s Elon Musk jet tracker on different platforms will show a message that the hyperlink is “potentially harmful,” as spotted by Tony Webster.

It appears Twitter doesn’t at present have an ironclad filter for this, as I used to be in a position to tweet an alternate link to the Instagram model of the tracker. But it seems that Twitter is stepping up its actions in opposition to Sweeney and his accounts, regardless of Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s “commitment” to free speech, which he mentioned in November prolonged to “not banning the account following my plane.”

Sweeney was suspended for violating Twitter’s guidelines in opposition to “platform manipulation and spam,” in line with a screenshot shared by a Mastodon account belonging to Sweeney. But Musk mentioned that the ban might have been for one thing else: in response to a tweet praising the suspension, Musk wrote that “real-time posting of someone else’s location violates doxxing policy.”

Twitter has additionally up to date its private information policy to state that sharing dwell location data is a violation of the coverage. Here is the complete addition to what now counts as a violation:

dwell location data, together with data shared on Twitter immediately or hyperlinks to Third-party URL(s) of journey routes, precise bodily location, or different figuring out data that may reveal an individual’s location, regardless if this data is publicly obtainable;

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark; the corporate dissolved its press workplace in the course of the latest layoffs.

Other accounts monitoring the jets of billionaires, together with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, have additionally been suspended. It’s not clear if all of them belong to Sweeney, nevertheless it appears as if many doubtless do, based mostly on channel listings in his Discord. He’s seen about 30 of his accounts banned, he instructed The New York Times’ Ryan Mac.