{"id":1422264,"date":"2022-04-06T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1422264"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:00:15","slug":"exclusive-rep-jim-banks-urges-elon-musk-to-overhaul-twitters-content-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-jim-banks-urges-elon-musk-to-overhaul-twitters-content-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks Urges Elon Musk To Overhaul Twitter\u2019s Content Policy"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fexclusive-rep-jim-banks-urges-elon-musk-to-overhaul-twitters-content-policy%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=1422264&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks sent a letter Wednesday to Elon Musk, who recently became Twitter\u2019s single largest shareholder and now sits on Twitter Inc.\u2019s board of directors, calling on him to revise the social media company\u2019s content policy to allow all speech that is legal and accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller first obtained the letter to Musk, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/04\/elon-musk-largest-twitter-shareholder-stock-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bought<\/a> a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc. or around 73.5 million shares, making him the largest shareholder,\u00a0according to an SEC filing posted Monday. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal then announced Tuesday that Musk will <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/05\/parag-agrawal-elon-musk-twitter-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serve<\/a> on Twitter\u2019s board despite his past criticism of the platform, saying he hopes they can work together to make the platform stronger.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Banks mentions a number of issues with Twitter and free speech, mentioning when Twitter suspended him in October for a tweet about biological sex and how Twitter reportedly suspended critics of NCAA transgender athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/lia-thomas-ncaa-championships-university-of-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lia Thomas<\/a>. Banks also mentions tweets about the COVID-19 vaccine and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/washington-post-daily-caller-news-foundation-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> being suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that you are Twitter\u2019s single largest shareholder, I urge you to advocate for revising Twitter\u2019s content policy to allow all speech that is both lawful and factually accurate. This would be a basic but important step towards restoring free expression to a platform that you described as the \u2018de facto public town square\u2019,\u201d Banks wrote in the letter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/04\/elon-musk-largest-twitter-shareholder-stock-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Elon Musk Becomes Largest Shareholder Of Twitter)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ THE LETTER HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View (DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) -- Elon Final Letter Signed PDF on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/568383063\/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-Elon-Final-Letter-Signed-PDF#from_embed\">(DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) \u2014 \u2026<\/a> by <a title=\"View Henry Rodgers&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/527927298\/Henry-Rodgers#from_embed\">Henry Rodgers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this change is simple, it would significantly alter Twitter\u2019s current censorship practices. Twitter has censored an alarming number of true statements. For example, Twitter suspended me last October 3 for a factually correct tweet about biological sex and most recently suspended critics of NCAA transgender athlete Lia Thomas. Considering Twitter\u2019s content policy has explicitly banned telling the truth, this shouldn\u2019t be surprising. In 2021, Twitter changed its terms of service to prohibit all \u2018false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus. Of course, the COVID vaccine does not prevent the transmission of the virus,\u201d Banks continued in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter shares closed up over 20% after Musk bought his stake in Twitter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/05\/parag-agrawal-elon-musk-twitter-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: CEO Announces Elon Musk Will Serve On Board, \u2018Is Exactly\u2019 What Twitter Needs Because He\u2019s An \u2018Intense Critic\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an inflection point for Twitter. They can continue down the current path of censorship and erosion of public trust or they can reverse course and protect freedom of expression. Mr. Musk has an impressive record of success, and unlike most Big Tech executives, does not seem afraid of the woke mob. I hope and expect he will change Twitter for the better,\u201d Banks told the Daily Caller before sending the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks sent a letter Wednesday to Elon Musk, who recently became Twitter\u2019s single largest shareholder and now sits on Twitter Inc.\u2019s board of directors, calling on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"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-1422264","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\/1422264","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422264\/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=1422264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}