Posted on 12/17/2022 5:37:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Elon Musk restored the Twitter accounts of some journalists who were originally suspended after he claimed they disseminated information about his location.
Initially, Musk gave the journalists a seven-day suspension. However, after major backlash from the public, he decided to put the decision in Twitter users' hands.
The reporters who were suspended were from liberal outlets such as the Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN.
Musk conducted a 24-hour poll on his account asking if the reporters should be reinstated "now" or in "seven days."
In a 59% to 41% vote, almost 3.7 million Twitter users decided to put the journalists back on the social media platform "now."
"The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now," Musk tweeted on Friday night.
Dubbed a "Thursday Night Massacre," CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan, New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac and Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell were booted off the platform earlier this week, being told they were permanently off Twitter.
The event began with the suspension of @ElonJet, an account that tracked Musk's private jet usage, in which the CEO claimed the account was shut down because of safety precautions since it was "doxxing real-time location info."
Musk then warned, "Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info."
The reporters who were suspended had either reported on @ElonJet's suspension or had posted links to the private jet tracking on their own Twitter accounts.
No he didn't. He listened to his audience at Twitter in an effort to live up to his own commitment to free speech.
A guy who can build an empire is no a wuss. You know that. If he were a wuss, he would have been eaten alive by the carnivores in the business world long before now.
In fact, usually guys like Musk are quite the opposite. They are tyrannical. The fact that Musk is willing to listen to a bunch of people he doesn't even know speaks volumes about his courage.
Churchill listened to the people when he refused (in Parliament, in his War Cabinet, and elsewhere) to sue for peace with Hitler.
That is pretty obvious. Libtards like to express their communist opinions.
Nah - he indicated that twitter users actually have a vote - this will keep leftists from even pretending to do a mass migration away - he’s playing them like a toy drum.
Ironic that they might like the thought of a fair vote in some things...😎
I see your point.
But when the mob is comprised of the very same people that have been cheering on censorship and banning anyone and everyone they don’t like, they can all pound sand up their collective a$$es.
Let them stew in it a little bit and then make an example out of them.
All that happened here was, they threw a temper tantrum like the children they are and won.
I hear ya.
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