Twitter on Wednesday suspended the account of 19-year-old Jack Sweeney from Florida and his “ElonJet” profile, which showed the passage of a private jet. Just before the blockade, the account had about 500,000. followers. he also suspended all other profiles he runs on this platform.
Elon Musk blocks accounts. Talks about “physical security breach”
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, briefly explained his decision to block. “Any accounts doxxing real-time location information of anyone will be suspended as it constitutes a breach of physical security. This includes posting links to websites with real-time location information,” he explained in the post.
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Doxxing consists in collecting and publishing, for example, personal data or other private information. In another entry, the billionaire announced that “legal action is being taken against Sweeney and the organizations that supported the harm of my family.”
Elon Musk defended freedom of speech. Twitter facing censorship?
Elon Musk apparently changed his mind on this issue as well. At the beginning of November 2022, he declared that he would not block the ElonJet profile. He said that in this way he wanted to engage in freedom of speech on the Internet. However, earlier he tried to bribe the creator of the account to delete the profile. Jack Sweeney, however, refused.
“My commitment to free speech extends even to not blocking my follower account, even though doing so poses a direct threat to personal safety,” he wrote. Can we now say that Elon Musk supports censorship after all?
Source: Gazeta
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