Elon Musk has introduced an interesting new policy at Twitter, which could have some implications for avgeeks…

Elon Musk’s private jet fiasco leads to new Twitter rules

Yesterday I wrote about how Twitter suspended the @ElonJet account, which was an account that tracked the location of Elon Musk’s private jet using publicly available data. This was noteworthy because this account was getting under Musk’s skin even before he purchased Twitter. Earlier this year, he had offered the teen behind this $5,000 to take down the account.

When Musk bought Twitter, he specifically Tweeted how he was so committed to free speech that he wouldn’t ban this account, even though it’s a direct personal safety risk.

At least that was the case until yesterday. Yesterday morning the @ElonJet Twitter account was suspended, and then yesterday afternoon Twitter instituted some new rules (at which point the account was reinstated).

With Twitter’s new rules, any account sharing real-time location info on anyone else can be suspended. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. However, posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis is permitted. Here’s the relevant part of what’s not allowed per the new rules:

live location information, including…