Washington: Twitter CEO, Elon Musk took to the micro-blogging site on Wednesday and addressed the question of whether the site should offer a general amnesty to other suspended accounts. Taking to Twitter, Musk wrote, “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided they haven’t broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?”
Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided they haven’t broken the law or engaged in serious spam? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
The election survey will come on November 25, 2022 at around 11:30 pm Indian time. Earlier, Musk had asked users of the microblogging website to vote for restoring the account of former US President Donald Trump, who was earlier under a lifetime ban for violence.
“Reinstate former President Trump,” the billionaire Twitter owner offered a chance to vote yes or no. “Trump poll gaining ~1M votes/hour,” he said in a later tweet.
According to the survey, more than 15 million Twitter users voted in favor of reinstatement, with a turnout of 51.8 percent. When asked by a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting about plans to return to Twitter, the former president said via video, “I don’t see a reason to.”
Earlier in 2020, Trump’s account was suspended in the wake of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill following the US presidential elections, which resulted in legal troubles for the former US President.
This new policy comes as no surprise as the world’s richest man has made several decisions this way, including one to buy Twitter. Last Friday, Musk began reinstating accounts that had previously been subject to an indefinite ban for breaking the platform’s rules.
Writer Jordan Peterson and comedian Kathy Griffin were among the first to have their accounts restored. “The new Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of access. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized, so Twitter won’t get any advertising or other revenue. You won’t get tweets unless you specifically request it.” No different from the rest of the internet,” Musk said in an earlier tweet.
On Tuesday, shortly after its controversial acquisition, Musk took a dig at trolls predicting the end of Twitter and tweeted, “Didn’t Twitter have to die by now…?”