Elon Musk says granting 'amnesty' to suspended Twitter accounts

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New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.

The billionaire's announcement came after he asked in a poll posted to his timeline to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” The yes vote was 72%.

Musk used the same Latin phrase after posting a similar poll last last weekend before reinstating the account of former President Donald Trump, which Twitter had banned for encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Trump has said he won't return to Twitter but has not deleted his account.In the month since Musk took over Twitter, groups that monitor the platform for racist, anti-Semitic and other toxic speech say it's been on the rise on the world's de facto public square.

On Tuesday, he said he was reneging on that promise because he'd agreed to at the insistence of “a large coalition of political-social activists groups” who later ”broke the deal” by urging that advertisers at least temporarily stop giving Twitter their business.

 

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Space Karen is a PO💩

And others are kaput...for good reason:

Only proper opinions should be heard. Everyone else should be 'moderated.'

only to right-wing ones. the selectivness is something you should be reporting on.

After a poll where everyone voted for it yup. Also you forgot to add as long as they didn't break the law

Good!

I suspect the “experts” criticizing this have an agenda that would be complicated by this action, which would explain their baseless fear mongering in a vain attempt to oppose it

How many were banned simply because they had opposing views to the leftist and former regime? The leftist meltdown over this has been entertaining to say the least.

If Trump got back on, it's only fair everyone else does.

If murderers are let out of jail I’m sure the world will survive if some people that previously put out some mean tweets are let out of Twitter jail.

Wow what a hero. Defending gross everywhere.

Gee I wonder if the author and editor of this article support the ideological left in Canada lol. The only thing that rings true to me in this article is the actual motivation to stifle free speech.

Getting rid of the child raping freaks, they use to promote

In real news

Ewww

Do you just tweet what cnn does? Canadian news is so bad and lame

He's unbanning human trash bin Alex Jones I bet.

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