The college student who ran the now-banned @ElonJet account that used public information to track Musk's private jet has resumed his activities on the social networking site. Jack Sweeney, 20, created a new account called "ElonJetNextDay" which tracks Musk's private jet with a 24 hour delay in order to circumvent the rules of the social networking site.
Musk accused Sweeney of violating rules by revealing his live location on his account. A person's real-time location can't be published on the same day a plane is suspended. While he works on the framework to fully automate the account, Sweeney will be posting manually for now.
Musk said that posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn't a safety problem. Sharing publicly available location information after a reasonable time has elapsed is not a violation of platform rules. The definition of live location data is included in the policy.
A unique code that is tied to the plane's tail number is used to transmit information such as altitude and gps location. In order to prevent midair accidents, aircraft flying in the USA and Europe must broadcast this information.
Musk said in November that he wouldn't ban the original account because it was a personal safety risk. Before the account was permanently banned on December 14th, it had amassed over 540,000 followers. Musk had offered to take the account down.
The journalists that reported on the plane were banned from the social networking site. On December 18th, Musk re-instated some accounts after asking users if he should "Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time" Journalists were not allowed to report on Musk's real-time location.
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