The creator of the app that tracked Musk's jet and several high-profile reporters have been banned by Musk. He applied for a new FAA program that will make it harder to locate his plane.
The louder the conversation gets, the more he tries to keep it from happening.
The sudden bans have angered some people, who view Musk's decisions as being out of step with his vow to makeTwitter a haven of free speech There is a new community dedicated to tracking Musk's jet.
Musk doesn't like the idea of using publicly available data from the transponders of different aircraft to build a tracker. He promised when he took over that he wouldn't ban the account for free speech.
On Wednesday, Musk said a car carrying his two-year-old son was followed by a stalker who climbed on the hood of one of the cars. He said that he was going to take legal action against Jack Sweeney, the creator of the app. Several journalists were suspended from their accounts on the social networking site.
As Musk continues to make erratic decisions about bannings on social media, it's gaining attention, and it's gaining subscribers as well.
One Redditor said they received a warning that the site had been identified as being potentially harmful and that links to it couldn't be posted on the social network. They were temporarily suspended for posting a link before it was blocked.
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