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Elon Musk threatened legal action against the owner of a suspended Twitter account on Wednesday night for sharing live location updates of his plane after he claimed a “crazy stalker” climbed onto a car carrying his 2-year-old son in Los Angeles.
Musk suspended the @elonjet Twitter account owned by college student Jack Sweeney and said he’s taking legal action against Sweeney and “organizations who supported harm to my family.”
“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,” Musk said on Twitter.
He noted that posting location information about where someone has traveled to “on a slightly delayed basis” was allowed because it “isn’t a safety problem.”
Sweeney’s @elonjet account had shared publicly available, live plane-tracking data published by third-party websites, which is a violation of the platform’s doxxing policy. Doxxing is the practice of publishing someone’s private information online without their permission.
At least two flight tracking websites, FlightAware.com and PlaneFinder.net, no longer show information about Musk’s plane.
When searching for Musk’s aircraft on FlightAware.com, the company now states the aircraft “is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator.” A different flight tracking site, Plane Finder, returns a similar message.
Sweeney said Musk “gave me no warning” before permanently suspending his account, which he previously said had been restricted in the lead-up to the suspension.
