Joe Rogan spoke out this week about Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s recent controversial decision to permanently suspend an account created by college student Jack Sweeney that tracked the movements of the billionaire’s private jet.
Earlier this month, Twitter suspended Sweeney-owned accounts, including the @ElonJet account, after Musk raised concerns about potential security threats.
Rogan addressed the situation during a conversation with comedian Brian Simpson on the December 28 episode of his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” – at one point he referred to Sweeney’s banned account as “definitely weird” somewhat than “a pleasant thing to do”.
Simpson described Sweeney’s blocked tracking account as “a bit scary”.
“What’s it? He said he began doing it because he was an Elon fan,” Rogan replied.
As reported by The Post, Musk originally sent Sweeney a direct message on Twitter, offering $5,000 to delete his @ElonJet account last 12 months. Sweeney objected, asking for $50,000, but Musk expressed objections and eventually stopped responding to his messages.
![Joseph Rogan](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/joe-rogan-experience-podcast-12272022.jpg?w=1024)
The account used publicly available data to track the movements of Musk’s private jet.
“Elon, you’ve gotten to make a proposal you possibly can’t refuse,” Simpson said of the failed negotiation.
“Here’s the issue: how does that stop other people from doing the exact same thing and doing the identical thing and trying to get more cash?” Rogan replied. “Where does it end? For instance, if it’s an industry now, tracking Elon’s jet?
![Jack Sweeney, a Florida college sophomore who was banned for following Elon Musk's private jet, is back with a new version of the plane monitor.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Jack-Sweeney-24-2.jpg?w=1024)
Simpson said he believed it was Sweeney’s “mistake” to disclose details of Musk’s original offer.
“That is why I believe it was a mistake to make it public. Since the DMs weren’t public until he made them public, until the guy running the account made them public,” Simpson said.
![Sweeney set up a Twitter account for Musk's jet cruising in June 2020.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/sweeney-musk-tracker-015.jpg?w=1024)
“But is it a mistake for him because he gets lots of attention. People listen to it. Perhaps he can generate profits off of it. It’s weird though. It’s definitely weird and I would not prefer it in any respect. I do not think that is a pleasant thing,” Rogan said.
Musk said Twitter will block “any accounts doxxing real-time location information” in the long run. He also threatened Sweeney with legal motion over the account.
Meanwhile, Sweeney fired back in an exclusive interview with The Post, calling Musk a “complete hypocrite” for blocking the jet tracker account despite his public commitment to free speech.
Just a few days after his original account was banned, Sweeney returned to Twitter with an account named @ElonJetNextDay, which tracks Musk’s private jet, but publishes the data 24 hours late. The account has already accrued over 20,000 followers.