It’s not the first time. And the previous management of the company Twitter Inc. cut accounts of a popular social network. He did it for better reasons than hiding the location of his private jet. Elon Muskinformation that is available on the Internet anyway.

But the previous administration may have stopped Donald Trump’s tweets because they incited violence (see Capitol attack), but at least they didn’t punish those who reproduced them.

Elon Musk probably subscribes to the theory of collective responsibility. He didn’t just block the @ElonJet account that showed the location of his plane and was followed by more than 500,000 people. He also suspended prominent journalists who had written about it for a week. How did school principals…

However, he again raised the issue of the limits of private sector intervention in public spaces. Yes, I agree! Twitter is not owned by the state, but millions of users, by their presence and work, make it public. This is a modern market whether or not it is on private land.

We were all signed into Twitter with a contract when we clicked the “Agree” button in the terms of use. It doesn’t say anything about aircraft geolocation being “private on Twitter.”

He also did not say that the limits of our intervention were in line with the wishes of the respective administration. That is, if the prince of Qatar buys the medium the day after tomorrow, then we all do not care to anger the working relations of the Emirate?

The market will solve the problem with new platforms that are already emerging, ie. mastodon.social. Of course, this is a long process, despite the fact that Elon Musk is doing everything possible to speed it up.

But it also makes it necessary to answer the fundamental questions of the new era. If, for example, ownership relationships that worked well with tangible things can also apply to intangible assets such as information.