Jack Sweeney, the now-suspended Twitter user who ran the account @ElonJet which tracked Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s flight locations in real time, said on Saturday what his demands would be for him to cease posting the location and travel details of Musk and his family.
CNN’s Michael Smerconish on his morning show asked Sweeney, “What is your current demand relative to Musk? What will it make for you to go away and stop this?” Sweeney replied, “Still a Tesla or $50,000.”
“I mean I’m not gonna up it,” Sweeney said.
On Wednesday, Musk announced that he would suspend any accounts that doxxed a person’s real-time location following an incident where his son was followed by a “crazy stalker.” He subsequently suspended several journalists and users, including Sweeney, who were providing Musk’s private location to the public, such as by publishing the coordinates of his private jet.
According to Sweeney, all thirty of his Twitter accounts had been suspended under the new policy. The @ElonJet account was briefly reinstated, but got the boot just minutes later.
The terms of use now state that users are not allowed to share “live location information” of any individual without their consent “regardless if this information is publicly available.”
Musk said Sweeney was basically posting “assassination coordinates.”
Sweeney also ran the @TrumpJets account that tracked the movement of former President Donald Trump’s private jets.
Musk has pledged to take legal action against Sweeney for putting his family in danger.
