I can understand why Elon and others aren’t willing to pay this kid to go away. If they did, wouldn’t copycat(s) simply spring up in the kid’s place? I understand that the kid seems to have pioneered the concept of the celebrity-jet-tracking bot using public data, but if he can do it, it won’t be impossible for someone else to figure out how to pull off this same trick it too. And if Elon and other start paying big bucks to him to back off, the copycats will ask for the same money or more.
This kid won’t get paid but he might “have an accident” if he keeps messing with people. Unexpected, of course.