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Air traffic information is already publicly available. The author of the bot simply scrapes data for Elon's Jet. You can use websites like FlightAware, Flightradar24, and PlaneLogger that provide real-time tracking of flights, including private jets. You can also search for specific aircraft or view flights in a particular area. I remember shortly after Elon bought Twitter he got the account suspended.
and worth noting that by “publicly available” here, it’s not like it’s published on some FAA API: ADS-B is broadcast from all aircraft, and anyone can receive its data… these services run by networks for regular members of the public contributing the data from their ADS-B receivers
So you're telling me it's only a matter of time before Skum orders his pilots to go dark and cease broadcasting, and then they're going to hit a jet liner full of families trying to escape his corporate hell.
Except the commercial aggregators have all started filtering the data of specific planes on request - you won't find Elon's or Swift's ADSB data on popular sites/apps like FlightAware or Flightradar24. (I'm not familiar with PlaneLogger). Open source aggregators like OpenSky or ADSB Exchange will have them though, but the UIs of those sites are far less polished and have fewer features.