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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is raising alarms about Elon Musk's recent wave of Twitter restriction, warning that the site's flurry of account bans in the past few days is placing Twitter on "the path towards authoritarianism."
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As a response to a blog post that praised Musk, Buterin claimed Musk employed a plan that he refers to as "central planning as overfitting."
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Musk introduces policies "seeming to be a retrofit of Elon's ideas on extremely specific issues."
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The most recent concern about censorship began with Musk removing the account @ElonJets, which monitors Elon's plane, along with @CelebJets which tracks the private jets of a variety of celebrities.
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Bot trackers like these pull public data and then republish it legally within the U.S.
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However, Musk considered it an attack on his safety and privacy and took it one step further and banned his personal Twitter account Jack Sweeney, the creator of the Elon Jets Twitter bot.
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Musk immediately implemented an updated Twitter policy prohibiting "any account or tweets that use someone else's live location."
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The only exceptions are concerning "a crisis to aid in humanitarian aid or to events that promote public involvement."
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The bans are part of a backpedaling plan to limit live location sharing, despite Musk's earlier declaration that he wouldn't restrict Sweeney's tracking for "free speech."
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