{"id":1747188,"date":"2022-11-21T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747188"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:48:49","slug":"trump-and-other-victims-of-twitters-anti-free-speech-rampage-restored-under-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-other-victims-of-twitters-anti-free-speech-rampage-restored-under-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump And Other Victims Of Twitter\u2019s Anti-Free Speech Rampage Restored Under Musk"},"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%2Ftrump-and-other-victims-of-twitters-anti-free-speech-rampage-restored-under-musk%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=1747188&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>Mere weeks after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk moved forward with restoring some of the platform\u2019s wrongfully shunned and censored users, including former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Musk previously pledged to end the Big Tech company\u2019s suppression of speech. Now, he is beginning to follow through on that promise by restoring users such as The Babylon Bee, which was locked out of its account for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/the-babylon-bees-twitter-resistance-is-a-lesson-in-taking-on-tech-tyrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refusing to delete<\/a> a\u00a0tweet poking fun at the leftist media\u2019s elevation of biological men as \u201cwomen of the year,\u201d Jordan Peterson, Project Veritas, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/16\/big-tech-is-furious-andrew-tate-is-exposing-the-great-reset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew Tate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/21\/kanye-west-returns-to-twitter-after-restrictions-for-antisemitic-posts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kanye West<\/a>, James Lindsay, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the only Member of Congress the unelected big tech oligarchs permanently banned. On January 2, 2022, they violated my freedom of speech and ability to campaign &#038; fundraise crying \u2018covid misinformation.\u2019 My account is back,\u201d Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1594757528491016206?s=20&#038;t=QQiEcUPesyACB1fcc8QcCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> from her previously locked account on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Even leftist Kathy Griffin, who was suspended from Twitter for impersonating Musk, was given her account back. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what criteria Twitter is using to unlock or reinstate previously suspended accounts. Especially since Musk said Twitter\u2019s new freedom of speech policy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1593673339826212864?s=20&#038;t=QQiEcUPesyACB1fcc8QcCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still ensures<\/a> \u201cNegative\/hate tweets will be max deboosted &#038; demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter,\u201d and Musk has vowed to disallow users such as Alex Jones back on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that Musk\u2019s decision to reinstate Trump, specifically, was not his alone. Instead of relying on the input of a \u201ccontent moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints\u201d to determine \u201cmajor content decisions or account reinstatements,\u201d as he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/29\/an-open-application-to-serve-on-twitters-content-moderation-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previously pledged to do<\/a>, Musk put the fate of Trump\u2019s Twitter in users\u2019 hands via a digital poll.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 15,085,458 users who voted in the poll over the weekend, 51.8 percent said Twitter should restore Trump\u2019s account, while 48.2 percent voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,\u201d Musk wrote on Saturday. \u201cVox Populi, Vox Dei.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After months of censoring Trump\u2019s tweets, including barring users from interacting with the president\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1346928882595885058\">vide<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1346928882595885058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">o<\/a>\u00a0calling for peace on January 6, Twitter permanently banned the president two days after the Capitol riot. The Big Tech company orchestrated the takedown <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/08\/twitter-just-nuked-the-account-of-the-worlds-biggest-critic-of-big-tech-and-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under the guise <\/a>that the president\u2019s tweets could pose a \u201crisk of further incitement of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s treatment of Trump was not isolated. For years, the Big Tech company used its power to silence Democrats\u2019 political enemies and suppress information contrary to the corrupt corporate media\u2019s narrative. <\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell, however, whether Musk will follow through on letting other users, such as my colleague John Daniel Davidson, shamed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/twitter-locked-my-account-for-telling-the-truth-about-rachel-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for the sin of stating the truth about the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health\u00a0Rachel Levine<\/a>\u2019s biology, back on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p> Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who were previously unfairly banned by Twitter are being allowed back on the platform with Musk at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1747191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747188","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}