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.
The 20 year old is just being a woke little twit.
If I was the richest man on earth… that dude would vanish. Like Hoffa vanish…
“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.”
Why isn’t that stalker dead or in the hospital? I’d have blown his ass off the hood and called it a day.
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I'm sure the Associated Propagandist nodded in sympathetic agreement.
Still, I'm not sure about this not being free speech. How does tracking Elon give anyone data on where his son is, if only Elon's being tracked and his son was elsewhere?
Meanwhile the lefties, including the MSM, are saying, in unison “Musk is censoring Tweets! He’s doxxing people!” without mentioning his kid was stalked.
> “He said this is free speech and he’s doing the opposite,” Sweeny
Stalking is illegal.
we probably all feel the same way ...
but Musk has to be careful these days, cuz FedGov is looking for anything to get him on
(they’re even going thru his old US citizenship application)
So, who is the black-masked antifa stalker?
X Æ A-Xii Musk
Can some kind Freeper please tell me what this means and is there a pronunciation?
Hiding the child’s name.....................
I think Musk is on a learning curve now.
He may be surprised a few times in the near future.
I also think Musk will make some policy adjustments in the near future.
I don't think the Left or the Government will like them.
I would think electronic tracking is not too different than actually physically tracking them, AKA Stalking.
HOW would the TWIT like 500,000 people to always know WHERE HE IS?????
She explained “X” stood for “the unknown variable,” while Æ – AI – was shorthand for artificial intelligence and translates to “love” in several languages.
The 32-year-old star then shared that a part of her son’s name is a reference to the couple’s favorite aircraft.
“A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent,” she added. Although Musk later corrected his partner, saying it was actually “SR-71.”
Grimes concluded the explanatory post on Twitter by revealing that the “A” in the name also represents “Archangel,” which she described as her favorite song.
X Ash A-12. According to the interwebs. But, according to Abraham Lincoln, you can't always trust what you see on the interwebs.
Musk probably has the where-with-all to come up with a new and better name to replace Twitter. A thorough rebranding once he's up to speed on what he has and is ready to implement his own improvements.
How does monitoring flights monitor and track a car?
I think it must be close the ecstasy.
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