FREE SPEECH The ElonJet saga, 2020 to today. Every row really happened.

Planes broadcast their position over ADS-B, in the open, so air traffic control and every other plane know where they are. Anyone with a cheap antenna can receive it, and sites like ADS-B Exchange collect it. In 2020 a student named Jack Sweeney started posting one particular plane's flights on Twitter, as @ElonJet. Nothing was hacked; the data was already public.

What followed is the board above: an offer of money to make it stop, a very public promise not to ban the account once its owner bought the whole platform, and then, 38 days later, a ban, a rule change written the same day, and a wave of suspensions for the journalists who wrote about it. The account carried on elsewhere. As things that are banned tend to.

This site doesn't track anything. The departures board is for a jet that never leaves.