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Elon Reeve Musk (in English: Elon Reeve Musk, /ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/) is a Canadian-American engineer, inventor, despite the businessman's promise not to, which illustrates his variable approach to moderation, reported France Press.
At the end of yesterday, the account was restored in the US and its owner posted "I'm back!", but it was blocked again in the evening.
"My commitment to free speech is such that I will not ban the account that tracks my plane, even if it directly puts my personal security at risk," Musk tweeted in late November, days after he bought the $44 billion platform.
"Account has been suspended" - that's what the account page of this user called @ElonJet read yesterday.
Musk also sold $3.6 billion worth of Tesla stock
Created by a student and amassing nearly 500,000 followers, the account used public data to automatically note when and where the SpaceX and Tesla chief's plane took off and landed.
"Posting someone's geographic location in real time violates anti-doxxing rules, but uploading it online later is allowed," Elon Musk tweeted yesterday
Elon Reeve Musk (in English: Elon Reeve Musk, /ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/) is a Canadian-American engineer, inventor,.
Doxing refers to the public disclosure, most often on the Internet, of personal information about a person without their permission.
The personal account of the student, Jack Sweeney, was also blocked.
Since taking the helm of the platform, the multi-billionaire has sent mixed messages about what's allowed on it and what's not.
A fierce defender of freedom of speech - as long as what was said does not violate the law, he restored accounts previously blocked by the social network, including that of Donald Trump.
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However, it blocked Kanye West's after posting posts deemed anti-Semitic, and refused to return the platform of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (in English: Elon Reeve Musk, /ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/) is a Canadian-American engineer, inventor, and has promised these days to publish a series of "Twitter files" - internal documents that appear to explain the moderation practices questioned by time of the previous leadership.
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