{"id":1421855,"date":"2022-04-06T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421855"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:00:12","slug":"twitter-censors-defy-elon-musk-no-plans-to-restore-trump-other-conservatives-to-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-censors-defy-elon-musk-no-plans-to-restore-trump-other-conservatives-to-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Censors Defy Elon Musk: No Plans to Restore Trump, Other Conservatives to Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-censors-defy-elon-musk-no-plans-to-restore-trump-other-conservatives-to-platform%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421855&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Despite alleged free speech advocate Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, the company reportedly has no plans to reinstate the accounts of former President Donald Trump and the many other conservatives blacklisted by the censor-happy platform. The company defied Musk in a statement, saying: \u201cpolicy decisions are not determined by the board or shareholders, and we have no plans to reverse any policy decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Mercury News\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/04\/05\/twitter-says-no-plans-to-bring-trump-back-with-free-speech-advocate-elon-musk-coming-aboard\/\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that following the recent news that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had purchased a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, many hoped that the development might result in the return of former President Donald Trump to the platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18935042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/Parag-Agrawal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (Google Cloud\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20033762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump-CPAC-2022-Speech.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20033762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump-CPAC-2022-Speech.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Twitter has quickly put those hopes to rest, stating that the former president would remain <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/suspension\">permanently banned<\/a> across the platform. In an emailed statement, Twitter stated that although the company\u2019s board \u201cplays an important advisory and feedback role,\u201d the firm\u2019s \u201cpolicy decisions are not determined by the board or shareholders, and we have no plans to reverse any policy decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jo-Ellen Pozner,\u00a0a professor at Santa Clara University\u2019s Leavey School of Business, stated that the addition of one person to a company\u2019s board should not make a huge difference to company policies. Pozner stated:\u00a0\u201cThe fact that he took a $2 billion-plus position in this company and got on the board right away suggests he is being paid deference and might demand deference that most people would not be able to command. I would not be surprised if there were shakeups of various sorts following this development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/05\/tucker-carlson-charlie-kirk-babylon-bee-still-locked-twitter\/\">recently reported<\/a> that many popular conservatives are still currently locked out of their Twitter accounts. Reporter Alana Mastrangelo wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Christian satire site Babylon Bee, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and Fox News\u2019s Tucker Carlson are all still locked out of their Twitter accounts for posting that transgender Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assistant secretary Rachel Levine is a biological male.<\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Bee, Kirk, and Carlson remain defiant after getting suspended from their Twitter accounts, refusing to delete the tweets that got them locked out of their accounts in protest of the social media platform\u2019s censorship of true statements deemed offensive by irascible members of society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t banned, but we are suspended until we delete the tweet. We won\u2019t do that,\u201d Kirk told Breitbart News on Tuesday. \u201cI won\u2019t deny the truth just to be on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, the Babylon Bee was locked out of its Twitter account and told that it would have to delete one of its tweets in order to successfully log back into the account. The satire site\u2019s offending tweet featured an article mocking USA Today for recently declaring Levine \u201cwoman of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/04\/05\/twitter-says-no-plans-to-bring-trump-back-with-free-speech-advocate-elon-musk-coming-aboard\/\">the<em> Mercury News<\/em> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><i>or email him at\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">lnolan@breitbart.com<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite alleged free speech advocate Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, the company reportedly has no plans to reinstate the accounts of former President Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}