Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, stated that he was pursuing legal action against one account owner, who was tracking his private plane after movement. Twitter has already suspended the account.
The @ElonJet account was started by Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old college student and aviation enthusiast, who used publicly available data to regularly update users on Musk’s flights.
Musk on Thursday said: “legal action is being taken against Sweeney and organisations who supported harm to my family,” arguing it put his son at risk.
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“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.”
Even Sweeney’s personal account got suspended from the micro-blogging platform along with the other tracking accounts that he created.
On November 7, Musk claimed that the account was a “personal safety risk” but he will not suspend it as a part of his “commitment to free speech.”
Musk had made Sweeney an offer of $5,000 back in January to take down the Twitter bot that was following the path of his private plane.
In the meantime, Musk had suspended Sweeney from the microblogging service in February. Later, Sweeney claimed that he had built 16 automatic Twitter accounts, or “bots,” to follow the jets owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (@GatesJet), Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Cuban, a billionaire businessman, and rapper Drake.
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