Actually it was the other way around. The Sun King himself typed the three magic letters after banning the account https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603160241352462336 which probably led someone scrambling to update the policy.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia-Ukraine war OSINT was the main target and @ElonJet just visibly banned before updating the policy as misdirection because personal thin-skinnedness is less newsworthy a motivation.

But, either way, its not good.

Still doesn’t make sense to me. Twitter doesn’t need permission to ban any account. They can just do it. Creating an ad hoc rule about location sharing isn’t going to satisfy the free speech absolutism crowd. So what’s the point?