UPDATE: The 20-year-old college student who runs elonjet, told The Daily Beast in an evening interview that he hadn’t yet received any legal notice from Musk or his representatives.
Elon Musk’s battle with a college student who tracks his private jet zig-zagged like an out-of-control plane on Wednesday—with the billionaire suspending, reinstating, and then rebanning the 20-year-old’s Twitter account and then threatening legal action against him.
Sweeney was baffled by the suggestion that his account revealing flight data was a threat to Musk’s family. “It’s pretty crazy, because he literally put out the whole tweet saying that he wouldn’t [ban the profile],” Sweeney told The Daily Beast soon after that initial suspension. “So this morning, I am pretty surprised.”
He added: “Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.”” page was abruptly changed on Wednesday and reflected a strangely specific caveat—stating that the company prohibits “live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to 3rd-party URL of travel routes... regardless if this information is publicly available.
“I think if something really happened, wouldn’t you have put it all out at once?” he asked. “Why wait until there’s hundreds of stories about me getting banned—and my account getting banned—to say that there was an issue last night.”
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