Posted on 12/15/2022 8:00:00 AM PST by Red Badger
Musk said he is taking legal action against the man who ran an account tracking his flights.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk changed the social media platform's rules on live location tracking after what he described as a "crazy stalker" followed a car carrying his child and "climbed" onto the vehicle.
In making the change, Musk also said Wednesday that "legal action is being taken" against Jack Sweeney, the man behind the account using publicly available data to track the location of the Tesla CEO's private jet, following the attack on his 2-year-old child, X Æ A-Xii Musk.
As Twitter's new owner, Musk previously promised to keep the jet-tracking account because of his commitment to free speech, despite his belief that the page carries a "direct personal safety risk."
In what appear to be his final decision on the matter, he also said Wednesday in a tweet: "Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so [that] is ok."
Just over a half hour later, Musk followed up with another tweet: "Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood."
He said he is taking legal action against Sweeny as well as "organizations who supported harm" against his family. Musk then posted a video of the alleged stalker to ask if anyone recognized him.
Sweeney, a 20-year-old college sophomore, started the @elonjet account to track Musk's flights. The page had more than 500,000 followers by Wednesday when Musk suspended the account.
"He said this is free speech and he’s doing the opposite," Sweeny told The Associated Press. The college student's personal account was also suspended.
If I were in that car this freak would have several extra holes in him.
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Kid needs some acne medicine.
his 2-year-old child, X Æ A-Xii Musk...Very appropriate title of the post just below this Musk hieroglyphics.
America, We Can Choose Not to Tolerate Weirdos: Time to stop accepting the idea that we need to pretend weirdos are not weird
Can’t blame Musk for not allowing his own platform being used to track him but there are at least 3 aircraft N-numbers (he mostly uses one of them) for which adsbexchange can be queried to see where his/SpaceX’s planes are when they are in use. The kid was doing that and posting the output to his 500k follower account. Are Twitter accounts monetized like YouTube? Another reason to cut the kid off.
See #23
X Æ A-Xii !?!?
Is this the Elonjet obsession guy?
And those registration numbers can be blocked from all the flight tracking websites.
Most big companies already do that.
Musk has been firing literally thousands of people from their jobs. Most of them from companies where they walk away with stock options and serious cash.
But there will be a finite number who get pushed over the edge. He’s nuts to leave himself exposed.
Tracking the location of a flying piece of metal is stalking? Someone should tell the FAA as they allow public tracking of every flight.
For accessing publicly available information? I assume you want the same for Libs of Tiktok, which also simply posts information.
Tony prints photo puts coat on
Yes.
Hurt him.
Make fun of his shoes. Ridicule his acne.
HURT HIM.
Are you asserting that someone sharing publicly available information about where your PLANE is means people would “always know” where you are as well? Is that what you’re saying?
A really punchable face if I’ve ever seen one.
Break that nose a couple of times and give it some character. A scar or two wouldn’t hurt either. Not big ones, just a couple of small character enhancing ones. Something to take the attention away from the rampant acne.
He's learned that Twitter is destroying the country and a scourge on society even when he owns it.
Twitter, facebook, Soros organizations, Google and even Murdoch News to name a few, need to have a stake driven through them and burned to the ground.
Not even everybody's favorite genius can put the Genie back in the bottle.
It’s providing information to nutcase stalkers. The nutjob following the elonjet account showed up and followed the car that picked up the jet passengers assuming it would be Elon, when it was actually Grimes and toddler X.
Mayhem ensued.
That super tolerant Left....
“Thousands of Democrats Post Assassination Threats Against Elon Musk on Twitter Following Acquisition — “I am Going to Kill Elon Musk””
https://www.idahotribune.org/news/thousands-of-democrats-post-assassination-threats-against-elon-musk-on-twitter-following-acquisition-i-am-going-to-kill-elon-musk
IIRC, that is a crime.......................
Remember, that same tolerant Left did the same to some of the SCOTUS, nothing was done.
If you were informed about the situation at all, you’d know that the last tweet from the account was a full 24 hours before the incident at the car. So it’s more than likely the suspect used a free app like flightradar24 or the like. I wish people would get the facts before commenting.
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