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Elon Musk says Twitter will offer 'amnesty' to suspended accounts

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I'll be back in action next week

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Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a "general amnesty" to some suspended accounts from next week.

This came after he started a poll on Wednesday asking Twitter users whether accounts that had "not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam" should be let back on the social media platform.

Several accounts, such as that of former US President Donald Trump, have already been reinstated by Mr Musk.

The world's richest man bought Twitter for $44bn (£36.3bn) last month.


More than 3.1m Twitter users responded to Mr Musk's poll, with 72.4% of them voting "Yes".


"The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week," Mr Musk, who has 118.7m followers on the platform, later tweeted.

He also used a Latin phrase which translates to "the voice of the people is the voice of God".


 
““What Musk is doing is existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities. It’s like opening the gates of hell in terms of the havoc it will cause. People who engaged in direct targeted harassment can come back and engage in doxing, targeted harassment, vicious bullying, calls for violence, celebration of violence. I can’t even begin to state how dangerous this will be.”

...“This would be a major disaster especially in Africa where State sponsored Ghost accounts were suspended for endangering human rights activists & journalists,” Hopewell Chin’ono, a journalist in Africa tweeted. “You would have allowed vile people to put our lives in danger as journalists! You will have blood on your hands @elonmusk.”


...Angelo Carusone, chairman and president of Media Matters, a nonprofit advocacy group and media watchdog, said that Musk’s decision could mean bringing back networks of individuals that include the American Nazi Party and “a whole bunch of 8chan, 4chan, conspiracy theorists who engage in harassment and abuse.” 8chan and 4chan are two message boards known for their racist and antisemitic posts."

‘Opening the gates of hell’: Musk says he will revive banned accounts
 
Not sure there’s anyone on the planet who can so quickly get the political left’s collective panties in a bunch quite like Elon Musk.


Everyone likes to watch a train wreck.... . Even more amusing watching the Musk defenders rationalize every stupid decision Musk makes as part of some super secret strategy Musk is implementing....
 
Not sure there’s anyone on the planet who can so quickly get the political left’s collective panties in a bunch quite like Elon Musk.

Who would have ever thought that promoting Nazis and narcissistic demagogues would do that?
 
Who would have ever thought that promoting Nazis and narcissistic demagogues would do that?

It's going to be funny watching Musk realize how much of his user base is in countries with much different laws on speech....
 
Everyone likes to watch a train wreck.... . Even more amusing watching the Musk defenders rationalize every stupid decision Musk makes as part of some super secret strategy Musk is implementing....

I never thought someone who has so much could be so needy..
 
Not sure there’s anyone on the planet who can so quickly get the political left’s collective panties in a bunch quite like Elon Musk.
As you don't say a word about the people who broke the rules, promote insurrection or trash parents after their kids have been murdered. And I'm not talking about Alex Jones.

But I'm sure that you will be okay when Islamists post as Americans.
 
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