Vitalik Buterin: Twitter is becoming an authoritarian social network
The situation escalated after the blocking of two accounts: ElonJets and CelebJets. These accounts tracked the planes of Elon Musk himself and several other famous personalities.
In the US, this is considered a completely legal activity: account holders used tracking robots that collected public data and simply relayed it. The personal account of Jack Sweeney, the developer of the ElonJets bot, was also blocked.
Musk soon released new Twitter rules that banned tweets or accounts that give away information about someone's current situation. The co-founder of Ethereum does not support “following bots”, but the new Twitter ban policy is not close to him either. Buterin makes it clear that in the politics of Elon Musk there is a desire for almost Soviet-style authoritarianism with its “central planning”.
