You probably already know the history of ElonJet, even if you may not identify it by name, so it’s best to start as stories should always start, at the beginning. Elon Musk is a big supporter of free speech, a major defender of the voice of the people being the voice of God, and perhaps by his own divine mandate, he made it clear to us from day one that censorship would never, ever, ever get on Twitter. With his leadership, we were about to truly discover what freedom of expression and participatory democracy was all about. The applause of some in the face of such a statement of intent still rings around.

November 7 last year reaffirmed its commitment to freedom of expression with this tweetin which he stated “My commitment to free speech even extends to not blocking an account that tracks my plane, even if it is a direct risk to personal safety.«. And as an honest man, committed to everything he says he’s committed to, a little over a month later he removed ElonJet, the name of the account he claimed he wasn’t banning. Oh, and to reaffirm his commitment to free speech, another thing he did was also delete several accounts of journalists who reported on what happened. Is good old Elon a great guarantor of free speech or not?

Public pressure was quite strong, in this way, the recovery of a large part of the deleted accounts was achieved, although in the meantime Elon Musk has threatened to sue Jack Sweeney, the young student responsible for ElonJet. His account could also return to the social network, but yes, with the commitment to apply the time lag between the flights of Musk’s private jet and its publication on the account. And this despite the fact that we are talking about public information, freely accessible from the Internet.

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Elon Musk is pretty pissed off at Meta about the launch of Threads, to the point that he’s considering filing a lawsuit, as our colleagues at MuyComputerPRO reported this morning. Something that, apologies to Musk, will surely have the effect of boosting interest in the new Meta social network. And now the billionaire has another reason to be upset about this new service because ElonJet has already signed up for Threadswhere we can be sure he will continue to publish the movements of Musk’s jet, in this case without having to use a rule created by Twitter to limit their activities.

He has only posted three messages so farthe first announcing his arrival on the service, the second message in which he quotes Mark Zuckerberg asking for permission to remain in Threads, and the third in which he repeats his threat to sue Meta, noting that he refers to this threat in this feeling that he himself suffered , and that to this day it does not seem to have come to pass.

ElonJet’s temporary suspension from Twitter undoubtedly had the opposite effect than Musk wanted, as the popularity of the account and its creator, Sweeney, reached all-time highs and caused him to reach many other social networks where he could continue to report freely. To be an internet expert, it looks like musk missed a class the day they explained the streisand effect.