After crafting a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks a private jet, the backlash continued.
Mastodon was reportedly suspended from the service on Thursday. The jet tracking account on Mastodon's own service was linked to just prior to its suspension.
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Jack Sweeney, a student at the University of Florida, operates a number of other flight- tracking bots and is the owner of the now-banned account. The personal account of Sweeney was suspended along with many of the other accounts.
In early November, Musk struck a different tone about the account, but he has since backpedaled. Even though it's a direct personal safety risk, he doesn't ban the account following his plane. Community notes explain the ElonJet saga.
Since the company's new owner took over, a number of policy decisions have been influenced by Musk's personal and political preferences. Musk initially said that he would allow any content that wasn't illegal, but he has now stopped specific accounts for personal reasons.
Musk reinstated a wave of high-profile Nazis and white supremacists earlier this month but drew the line at Alex Jones, citing his personal experience of fatherhood.
A single individual can't set the rules for the entire platform on Mastodon. Mastodon has separate but open instances of the social network that are run by people who can set rules, but users can also leave if they don't agree with those choices.
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