From CNET: Twitter has suspended several accounts on the site that use publicly available flight information to track the location of private jets, including the plane used by Twitter owner Elon Musk, a day after the tech billionaire says one of his children was followed by "crazy stalker." He also vowed to take legal action against the account operator.
The account @ElonJet was created in 2020 by Florida college student Jack Sweeney to track the takeoffs and landings of Musk's private jet. Musk wasn't happy with the account but said in November that he wouldn't ban it, citing his commitment to free speech.
But on Wednesday, the account suddenly disappeared from the service, replaced by the message "account suspended" for violating Twitter's rules, along with Sweeney's personal account. The @ElonJet account was briefly restored Wednesday afternoon before being suspended again. Other accounts created by Sweeney to track the private planes of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates were also suspended, as was Sweeney's personal account.
The action seemed to come around the same time that Twitter updated its privacy policy to prohibit posting or linking to information about a person's physical location or travel route, regardless of whether the information is publicly available.
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