I am a conservative and I think this is fair judgment. Although Alex Jones sometimes gets it right he had gone way off in conspiracy land (e. g. claiming the Sandy Hook shootings were “staged”) and is overall a complete whack job.
But so far Elon musk is really cleaning house and getting twitter’s shit together. It’s going to be a painful process with some collateral damage. You can’t have a successful surgery without cutting someone open. Also Musk’s slave driver letter to the Twitter staff was over the top. HOWEVER Twitter really was a bloated, far leftist dominated bs platform far way too long. Musk had to bring the hammer down considering the type of people who worked there. This leftist attitude that you can boss around the boss with your feelings and delusional leftist beliefs has to STOP.
For Elon the straw that broke with camels back was when twitter’s 1984ish woke nazi staff banned the Babylon Bee which is a SATIRE website (similar to the onion). Musk was a fan on them and after that he finally had a enough. But musk isn’t a far right activist either. He just wants fairness before all the woke insanity took over.
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It is going to be difficult to cherry pick who and who can not... but it's Elon Musk's company. It is a 3-6 month transition and every account is a Special Interest group even the individual organism account.
I am guessing Twitter interest will slow down after New Years. High profile Banned accounts, which are not reinstated in the "Happy New Year" will be reviewed again in first Quarter of year assuming Twitter Revenue year is Jan-Dec.
I really couldn't care less, but the fact that you let trump back on, after the shit storm he created a few years ago... I would never!! The man is a menace!! 💯
What is it with disgustingly fat Republicans? How come they are so vile?
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I'm generally against banning anyone and support the concept that free speech is free speech and should be allowed. However, Alex Jones has been found guilty of numerous felonies, based in large part on his opinion of the Sandy Hook shootings (including many of his tweets), and his Twitter ban is therefore justified.
I'm not too interested in any of these people.
But what I believe to see is that a mere instrument of communication now is converted (and rated) as a tool for ''censorship''.
Imagine: the national mail service would allow some letters to be delivered - and others... well: not.
Also: courts and judges soon not longer will be needed, as the money-bags will decide over ''us'' what's right and what's wrong.
''Heil Musk''
You either believe in freedom of speech or you don’t. Jones has not been charged or convicted of any crimes and never violated the Twitter rules. He was banned for the dystopian reason of off platform behavior long after the Sandy Hook debacle.
Alex Jones intentionally and maliciously defamed people whose children had been murdered by a lunatic, and lost the case in court.
Trump is a sometimes / often misinformed blowhard, so not different than almost any other politician, and really other than being famous not much different from a lot of the people on here.Alex Jones is just straight up crazy now. He's been broken by stress or something but he is no longer useful as a reliable source of information. We didn't let Charles Manson just freely speak whenever he wanted right?
Alex Jones is very clearly not all there anymore and he has. Cult like following. It's time to put him in a retirement home
If we purport that the US justice system maintains only a modicum of merit, then keeping Jones off social media is probably the right choice. If there’s no merit left to our justice system, then let’s tear it up and burn it down, right now. Otherwise, go buy some “tucks” for your hurt butt. Ell oh ell!
Jones got convicted Trump did not. There might be the difference.
that strikes me as weird. like sure alex jones talks a lot of confused shit with some truth sprinkled in here and there. but like he's not some nazi or inciting violence. so why ban him?
I despise Alex Jones but freedom of speech is sacrosanct
Rich white racist shows he's a hypocrite with no principles?
I am shocked.
I’ve heard more about people being banned now than ever before, so it makes sense to not reinstate Alex
Jones has a right to his opinion. Left say lies , but Left lies about the fantasy called global warming. They said most of US would be under water 10 years ago. Never happened.
No he said no permanent bans so he should keep his word, might need to wait to unban some people before the tools to handle them are in place thought. So I give him some slack right now.
Yes though it is hypothetical as actual murders have an account
A broken clock is right twice a day, and fortunately he’s right with this one. Then again, with the internal turmoil of Twitter, I doubt it’s going to remain a relevant topic soon anyways
I as a conservative support the decision. Jones was convicted in a court of law, so there is justification for upholding his ban. Not so with Trump.
Where is the logic in unbanning Trump but rebanning Jones? It's all completely random, like the way he runs the company.
He paid 44 billion dollars to control something I could care less about.
I don't agree with anything that psycho (Musk) or that other psycho (Jones) do.
Ban the account, not the person. I do get why he banned him permanently, though, since there are laws protecting private citizens from slander and libel and he has constantly violated this.
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