TwitterNow it’s in hand Elon Muskdecided to suspend this Wednesday report Elon Jett, which tracked the movement of the businessman’s plane. This decision surprised both netizens and the owner of the profile, because on November 7, Musk himself explained that will not cancel the customer As part of his initiative freedom of expression And even though the information published there posed a “direct risk to his personal safety.”

“Well, it looks like @ElonJet has been suspended,” its creator wrote. Jack Sweeney On his personal account @JxckSweeney, where, in turn, he announced that he would move to the Mastodon platform, similar to a small bird, although he got there without 500,000 followers. “He says there is freedom of expression, but he does the opposite”– added in the statement of the agency PA.

From Twitter, they announced that the decision was based on A Failure to comply with community rulesSo now you only have access to read timeline content but not to send or forward messages.

A few hours later, the account was reactivated without further explanation. But just as quickly as the account reappeared, the user was disabled again.

The businessman explained in the afternoon that this measure was taken because the account was not in accordance Doxing, which is based on the intentional and public disclosure of personal information about an individual or organization. “Publishing someone else’s location in real-time violates the doxxing policy, but delayed publishing of locations is fine,” Musk explained.

However, two hours later and still in the midst of the ongoing controversy, the young man behind the report noted that he had Restored access to it.

Sweeney had appealed In the morning at the Little Bird Help Center to prove that he did not break the rules, as well Other accounts are still active that follow the movements of celebrity jets Like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Russian oligarchs.

In any case, during the hours of his absence, he continued to post work on the take-off and landing of the plane on his Instagram and Facebook profiles, which makes the work of the press much easier when they want to find him for an announcement or a photo. For example, a few hours ago, he posted on his Instagram account that Musk’s plane “flew from Los Angeles to Austin last night after my Twitter account was suspended.”

In 2021 yearThe young man received a private message of the tycoon’s offer $5000 for that Closing the accountby A risk to their safety. Faced with his negative answer, Musk would use a filter technique He would hide his tweets and instruct the trust and safety team Delete account areaas reported.

Musk, though he has not commented on the matter, has in the past criticized this filtering technique, known as “shadowbanning,” and claimed that previous Twitter leaders had unfairly used it to suppress right-wing accounts. For this reason, during the speculation, he mentioned that the new Twitter will continue to reduce the scope of negative or hateful messages, but will be more transparent about it.

Just this Tuesday, the co-founder and former head of Twitter, Jack DorseyHe issued a public defense of the tech company’s employees, who have been criticized by Musk for a series of decisions. Content ModerationA matter to be considered after the sale-purchase transaction has been completed 44000 million dollars.

“I strongly believe that any content created by someone for the Internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to remove it,” Dorsey wrote. “It should always be accessible and addressable. Content should not be able to be removed or suspended,” he added just a day before the Twitter account was suspended.

However, even Elon Musk himself cannot decide on this matter, since he was the head of the network he was sending. mixed messages About what is authorized and what is not on the platform.

For example, Restore accounts that have been suspended On issues related to non-compliance with the regulation, including former US President Donald Trumpetwho was heavily questioned for his controversial statements, but won the support of the majority of Internet users who took part in a poll of Musk to determine his return to Twitter.

But, on the other hand, the businessman canceled the rapper’s account Kanye West -also known as Ye- following his posts with anti-Semitic messages, which led to the support of many brands and became the focus of a campaign to cancel. He also denied returning to Twitter Alex JonesFounder of a far-right website InfoWarswho was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in restitution for claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a “fake.”

(according to EFE, AFP and Associated Press)

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