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>>prawn+(OP)
Echoing David Sacks, he's now tweeting that the journalists in question were tweeting 'assassination coordinates.'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603587970832793600

Starting to think there might be some national security issues with one guy being the nominal linchpin of the US space program, satellite internet, and global public messaging infrastructure.

>>anigbr+Ri
But aren't the coordinates of his plane public anyways? And wouldn't shutting down ElonJet account be enough, why all these journalists' accounts as well?

>>lambic+Dl
Yeah, it was public ADS-B data. A lot of the suspended journalists never even posted his location, they just posted about the situation or the supposed stalker incident.

>>keving+bz
From what I've read, this is untrue. He has requested a privacy ICAO (https://nbaa.org/aircraft-operations/security/privacy/privac...), and as such the ownership was not public.

The data published was not just ADS-B data, but ADS-B data + content intended to violate the specific privacy ICAO.

I'm not defending Musks actions, simply providing additional context.

>>TheHap+Je1
Well ADS-B Exchange just got suspended (https://twitter.com/ADSBexchange) so it seems that publishing public radio data is now against their TOS.

>>pera+ej1
I believe that ADS-B Exhange (like the suspended journalists) linked to ElonJet's Mastodon account. This is consistent with the policy - even if that policy isn't agreeable - and doesn't seem to indicate that publishing public radio data is banned.

>>TheHap+Uj1
Is there any evidence/source that shows the suspended journalists actually linked ElonJet's Mastodon account? I thought they only mentioned ElonJet's Twitter handle.

>>lambic+z43
That's what I've read, ironically on Twitter. The JoinMastodon account definitely did.

This article from TC confirms:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodo...

Also I get journalists are feeling threatened, but it's a shame to see such a clear emotionally charged article from TC, I used to trust them for unbiased tech reporting.

>>TheHap+CA3
The article confirms that Elon suspends link to Mastodons, but doesn't say anything about the journalists posting links to the Mastodon account for ElonJen.

>>lambic+yH5
Apologies, the TC article states why the JoinMastodon account was suspended:

> Twitter apparently suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service on Thursday afternoon. Just prior to its suspension, Mastodon (@joinmastodon) tweeted a link to the jet tracking account on its own service, according to archives.