This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk has restored the X account of Alex Jones, the Infowars founder who was permanently banned from the platform formerly known as Twitter more than five years ago.
Jones, a far-right commentator best known for pushing the conspiracy theory that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, returned to the website on Sunday and reposted a number of celebratory messages.
Since Musk bought X in October 2022, he has restored a number of prominent banned accounts, including those belonging to Donald Trump, Andrew Tate, and Kanye West.
But until December 7, Musk had refused to consider restoring Jones’ account despite his purported commitment to free speech on the platform.
Citing Jones’ views on the Sandy Hook shooting, Musk said last year he had “no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics, or fame.”
Twitter ultimately banned Jones in September 2018, saying his tweets and videos violated the company’s “abusive behavior policy.”
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The fact that 1 single person gets to decide arbitrarily who is or isn’t allowed to voice bullshit ‘facts’ on a worldwide medium that is copy-pasted by every newsagency and newspaper as if it is a main and legit source of actual news is just very very wrong.
I mean, the poll was almost definitely bullshit but in theory over a million people also voted for it
Surely this will win back all of the advertisers uncomfortable with what a cesspool of bigotry and conspiracy theories Xitter has become.
It won’t. And stop calling me, “Surely”. ;-)
Elron probably thinks he’s the Dei in “Vox Populi, Vox Dei”
Elon doing something stupid? Must be a day that ends with Y.
Do you ever wish that you could delete your twitter account again? Once isn’t enough.
Spineless
Anything to prevent the userbase from shrinking…
Nope. Its about platforming a rightwing movement that the funders of the buyout can use to take control of the American body politic.
