Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, December 15th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today I'll get into that whole Twitter banning private jet tracking accounts thing but use that to explain

how and even if we're going to cover this whole Elon Twitter story going forward is

mobile gaming the latest domino to fall in this year of line also goes down. A new

consortium hopes to make mapping data better and let me introduce you to the

battery belt every bit as important as the whole onshoreing the chip industry trend.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So there was this account on Twitter called at Elon Jet that auto-tweeted the trips Elon Musk's private jet made

It wasn't sourcing this stuff itself. It was basically reposting publicly available flight data.

At one point, Elon said even if he took over Twitter he wouldn't ban that account, but then

it was banned and then it wasn't banned and now it's banned again looks like for good along

with 30 other accounts that share private jet locations quoting Bloomberg.

Early Wednesday morning in New York the at eelon jet page showed a message that read

account suspended because it violated the platform's rules. The account had been operated

since 2020 by Jack Sweeney, who also ran other Twitter accounts that tracked the private jets of Mark Zuckerberg

and other celebrities.

By the afternoon, Twitter updated its policies to bar accounts from sharing someone else's

current location information, though tweeting about

quote historical not same day locations would be allowed.

The at eelonget account reappeared and began tweeting, but then was suspended again.

Musk said in a tweet that legal action was being taken against Sweeney and the, quote,

organizations who supported harm to my family, end quote.

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