Elon Musk says that next week he intends to return tens of thousands of banned twitter accounts back to the conservatives that the old, lefty Twitter employees stole them from.
Naturally, the left-wing is losing its tiny, hive mind over it all.
According to Forbes, Musk is extending an “amnesty” to most — but not all — of the conservatives that lost their accounts over the last several years.
Musk posted a poll to Twitter asking if he should deliver this amnesty and the overwhelming number said yes.
Per Forbes:
Musk’s unscientific poll attracted more than 3.1 million votes, with 72.4% in favor of widespread reinstatement.
On Saturday, Musk reinstated Trump minutes after a poll closed asking whether the former president’s ban should be lifted, with 51.8% of more than 15 million votes cast in favor of allowing Trump back.
Twitter has unbanned numerous suspended accounts since Musk took over the platform last month—including profiles for rapper Kanye West, firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and the conservative satirical website the Babylon Bee—but hard-right activists are pushing for much broader reinstatements, including for accounts banned for hate speech or sharing misinformation.
Musk has been pushed in particular to reinstate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was permanently banned for abusive behavior in 2018, though the billionaire repeatedly said before Wednesday’s poll that he will not let him back on the platform.
“The people have spoken… Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted after the poll.
The people have spoken.
Amnesty begins next week.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022
Naturally, the left is predicting doom and gloom as a result of this amnesty.
BREAKING: Elon Musk announces that Twitter will be giving “amnesty” to all of the accounts that were suspended for violations like racism, bigotry, & homophobia, leading to a new wave of Twitter users migrating to alternatives like @TribelSocial. RT IF YOU DON’T SUPORT AMNESTY!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) November 25, 2022
This was correctly called “Joker releasing the inmates of Arkham Asylum” by @CaseyNewton, and in this case it’s after 2/3 of the Gotham PD was laid off or quit.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 https://t.co/DWkXwNqYY1
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) November 24, 2022
Please feel free to associate Tesla and other Elon Musk-related companies with the ideologies of Milo Yiannopoulos, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Stefan Molyneux and Jared Taylor.
He's bringing white supremacy back in a big way and wants everyone to know about it: https://t.co/3K8RVudbzb
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) November 24, 2022
He always planned to open everything up to banned accounts again, he just didn’t want to take responsibility for doing it. (And yet he still can’t understand why advertisers are reticent.)
And he still doesn’t understand the Latin phrase he keeps using. https://t.co/ObuL4atn6d— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 24, 2022
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