One point I do want to make clear: Twitter is Elon Musk's website. He paid all that money and can ban whoever he wants. It's his right, just like it's our right to point out when he's spreading bad information and contradicting himself.

Because Elon has continuously misrepresented this:

The data used for flight-tracking accounts like ElonJet - called ADS-B data - are transmitted from nearly every plane in the sky.

The signals are unencrypted, and anyone with a $20 RTL-SDR radio can pick them up. Aviation hobbyists gather the data and put them on websites like ADS-B Exchange.

It's publicly available, legally acquired data of the kind Elon Musk said he'd allow, until suddenly he no longer did.

@drewharwell

And it isn’t even Melon Head’s. It belongs to a shell company Falcon Landing LLC located at SpaceX HQ. And SpaceX …not Melon Head - is listed as the agent and manager along with 2 other planes in the fleet.

And he can’t be on all 3 at once…and that rather points to several people using them

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-not-musks-plane-it-belongs-to-spacex

It’s Not Musk’s Plane. It Belongs to SpaceX

A minor point. But TPM Reader BR points out that that the private jet at the center of the latest Twitter fracas is not precisely Elon Musk's. It appears to be a corporate jet owned by SpaceX…

TPM – Talking Points Memo