Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter ban on Donald Trump

[speak easy]

Source: Washington Post

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk said he would reverse Twitter’s ban on former president Donald Trump.

Musk, the Tesla CEO who is soon to own Twitter, said it was a mistake for the website to ban the former president.

“I think it was a morally bad decision to be clear and foolish in the extreme,” he said at a Future of the Car event hosted by the Financial Times.

He added: "I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake … It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/10/musk-talk-twitter/

[pwb]

1. Twitter is circling the drain

and will go down fast with this prick heading it. Good I say.

[ificandream]

4. Great description.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Yup.

[groundloop]

27. I disagree. Twitter will once again give MAGATs everywhere access to their fearless leader.....

who will take full advantage of the free publicity every chance he gets. Lies will be spread just like they were before, with the same resulting chaos.

[pwb]

28. I guess if you still read twitter but

Lots of people will leave. Already are. IMO.

[PSPS]

40. Won't matter. The MSM will stick around, salivating for every utterance for the next front page

As soon as trump gets back on twitter, it will suck all the oxygen out of the media to cover serious issues. We will all become virtual twitter users because it will re-plastered everywhere. That's what musk wants. He wants to be the all-powerful conduit trump relies on to foment the next insurrection.

[Achilleaze]

32. The irrelevancy of the draft-dodging Republican casino hustler grows daily

There just aren't that many people willing to stoop low enough to support him as the ongoing role model for Republican family values.

[Botany]

2. Well then nobody should ever buy anything from Musk ever.

Trump is the biggest crook in our history, a Russian agent, and he spreads lies, hate, and bigotry
and we saw what giving him a platform caused.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Who is surprised by this?

I doubt that Truth Social will be here for that long

[TlalocW]

5. There's a line of thought

That if Trump did return to Twitter, that would be torpedoing Truth Social (even more than what it is now), and his investors could sue him.

TlalocW

[rurallib]

41. so they get in a long line suing Trump

who probably has no money for them to get. Can't imagine that would bother Trump.

[ificandream]

7. Wonder what will become of Devin the Cow then? Trump's valet, maybe? :)

[NQAS]

21. He'll continue to be his fluffer.

Even if the partners and family of these vile creatures share their diseased world view, I do wonder how they can stand by them. If I had disgraced myself as much as these fascists do, my wife would call it quits.

[AZLD4Candidate]

20. I'm shocked. . .shocked I tell you. Well, not that shocked. More like obvious

He and Mark Burnett came here to pillage and make money while flipping the bird to Americans.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Banning Trump was a good moral decision as well as a sound business decision

Polluting a site with the populace from flag waving caravans who bully and threaten is no way to run a business.

[Cha]

29. And, tffg Broke the Rules.. that's

what was "Foolish to eh Extreme".

That's Why he was Banned.

💙💛

[Lonestarblue]

8. With Trump back on Twitter, the media will abandon any effort to report real news.

They’ll go back to breathlessly reporting Trump’s every insane tweet. Our media already does a poor job, as in most people know nothing about the things the Biden administration has a accomplished and how the infrastructure package has already made improvements or how farmers are better off under the Biden administration. The effects and coat of climate warming are rarely reported. I must be old because I miss the days of media doing its job. The media reports from Vietnam helped to end that war because they showed the bloody ravages of war. Today we get bothsidesnism that results in pablum.

[JudyM]

42. This. Lazy-assed clickbait will reign again.

[kimbutgar]

9. The day the deal is complete I will delete my Twitter account and no longer click on links

[RevBrotherThomas]

17. Me too...

I am fairly regular on twitter despite a small following. If this trump returns to mainstream social media (and let's face it, he'll be able to resist that as effectively as he will resist running for president again), I think I will simply shut everything off.

[groundloop]

31. I just deleted mine, I won't miss it a bit.

[patphil]

10. Morally bad decision?

The guy advocated the overthrow of the government and sent his mob to the Capitol to get the job done.
The morally bad decision is the one Musk is planning to do.
Apparently he is willing to allow anyone to say anything on Twitter.
I wonder if there is any situation where someone would get banned for what they say on Twitter?
Suppose someone called for the death of Elon Musk; not that I'm advocating it, but the people storming the Capitol were chanting 'Hang Mike Pence".
Is that free speech? Is shouting "fire" in a crowded theater free speech?
There are limits to free speech, and Trump's advocacy of overthrow of the government to keep him in power went way past those limits.
That's why he got a lifetime ban.

I don't believe "free speech" is Musk's motive; that's pure BS.

[RussBLib]

25. by whose morals?

I'm afraid the term "morally bad decision" means quite different things to different people.

I hear Musk eventually wants to do an IPO for Twitter, after he takes it private and miraculously saves and enhances the company.

Could be just another money-making ploy.

[ananda]

11. Then I consider it a morally bad decision to stay on Twitter.

Easypeasy solution to a bad business.

[stonecutter357]

12. I deleted my Twitter account weeks ago !

[Chellee]

13. He's just mad that no one's talking about him anymore.

Everyone switched to the Supreme Court and abortion, and his response is, "Oh yeah?!? Well, I'll.. I'll put Trump back on Twitter! Bet you want to talk about me now."

What a petulant child.

[2live is 2fly]

44. You hit the nail dead square on the head.

So tired of this one-size-fits-all reasoning that starts to sound like its based on some kind of BS business principal; profit above all else? Makes ya wish that we could somehow shake some sense into these ppl (rwnj) all while screaming into their ear; "THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANAGING A BUSINESS AND ADMINISTERING A GOVERNMENT!!! THEY ARE SIMPLY NOT THE SAME. The same concept, techniques running one very possibly could ruin the other!

[cilla4progress]

14. Reinforcement for quitting Twitter when this first released

a couple weeks ago (Musk buying/trying to buy).

I have gotten much of my life back - and am going to better news sources.

HOWEVER: I am a Starlink customer. Got it a year or so ago. Didn't know about Musk. No other comparable options in my rural narrow valley. If there were I would go for it.

[Joinfortmill]

15. This dude may be smart but he's also nuts.

[Grokenstein]

34. He gets off on the chaos.

He sees the world as a cage of apes. Every so often he throws a snake into the cage to savor the shrieking, shit-flinging panic as the apes attack each other (cf. the SC "leak," dim donnie).

The sad part is, presence in the cage is completely voluntary. The door's wide open.

[underpants]

18. Well the Trumpers will go running to buy Tesla's now

[Magoo48]

24. Since generally Americans don't let convictions interfere with their conveniences,

one must only look to our efforts, individually and governmentally, with climate crisis; Tesla sales are probably safe.

[dawg]

19. Trump repeatedly violated the site's terms of service ...

but I guess rules shouldn't apply to some of us.

[Escurumbele]

22. That is OK, but because he wants to protect free expression, we all have to give it to trump all the

way...call him what he is, a fool, a looser, an ignorant, and everything else...because its free expression Musk wants he won't be able to take them off, they will have to accept all the insults the man-child gets. Same with Musk.

Fill up his twitter account with everything they deserve...

[yaesu]

23. I've heard that tRump would violate TRUTH Social contractual obligations if he posted on twitter

as the deep pocket investors were promised he would only post there since he was the main reason for their 100's of millions investments

[DinahMoeHum]

26. Rick Wilson has this to say on the matter. . .

. . .essentially, Musk is trolling us. don't take the bait, but if Trump is let loose, this is what WE should do.

Link to tweet

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1524085641381924866.html

. . .you have to fight the fight you're in, not the one you want to be in.

He's coming back. So what? You gonna run from the bully?

Or are you going to use it to show the world how utterly bugfuck drooling insane he is?

Or use it to make "moderate" Republicans in swing seats own every iota of his madness and shitty behavior?

Or to remind folks the GOP has no ideology by idolatry to Tangerine Baal?

6/ Look, no one *wants* him around but if he's going to be here, make it hell for him.

Oh, and one more thing:

Link to tweet

by the way...there's ZERO chance Twitter become unmoderated.
Z-E-R-O.
Google and Apple get a vote, and sorry, but without the app stores, Elon would be breaching his fiduciary duty to the company.

[Grokenstein]

36. THANK you.

Rick understands.

[Cha]

37. I like RW's fighting spirit..

Rt TY!

💙💛

[JohnSJ]

46. He is taking the company private, and if the deal goes forward, he can do whatever he wants

[jmowreader]

30. You know what would happen

Day 1: Tesla CEO Elon Musk closes deal to buy Twitter.

Day 2: Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk rescinds bans on Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Lindell, Alex Jones, Roger Smith, Milo Yiannopoulis, Martin Shkreli, Jacob Wohl, Lin Wood, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, James O'Keefe, David Duke and Tia Tequila.

Day 3: Fourteen million liberals cancel their reservations for Tesla cars. Some of the cars cancelled were on trucks en route to their purchasers.

Day 4: Tesla customer service representatives unsuccessfully attempt to talk many of the cancelees into buying the cars anyway. "Yeah, we know our boss is a fuckhead but this is a really good car, and Mr. Musk is going to personally fire me if I can't talk you into accepting the car." The representatives are informed that companies run by adults are hiring.

Day 5: Tesla board holds emergency meeting to discuss how to correct Tesla's sudden downturn. The board's preferred solution, to put Mr. Musk in a gunny sack with 500 pounds of rocks and a mountain lion and drop it in the nearest river, is decided against due to the lack of availability of mountain lions and Musk is simply fired.

[hamsterjill]

33. It was his purpose in buying it.

Come on, Elon. It was obvious.

Two assholes covering for one another.

[BlueIdaho]

35. One set of rules for the corrupt elite

A different set of rules for ordinary folks. Pretty predictable for Elon.

[LudwigPastorius]

38. All the pieces seem to be in place for a fascist takeover.

Folks out there better have their passports in order, a bug out bag, and some cash on hand.

I know I'm going to be prepared.

[IronLionZion]

39. Trump is too good for Twitter. He has Douche Social or whatever it's called

As if Twitter wasn't overtly lenient to letting him break the rules. There were repeater accounts that simply shared everything he posted just to prove that Twitter would ban them but not Trump.

[DallasNE]

43. Musk Obviously Is Lacking In Morals

If he thinks it was a morally bad decision and foolish in the extreme to ban Trump. I guess money rots the brain.

[wildman76]

45. I think his decision will end Twitter faster

[Lulu KC]

47. Bye-bye Twitter

It was fun.

[The Wizard]

48. Trump and bankruptcy

perfect together. Musk is banking on Trump humpers to keep Twitter afloat. Maybe he miscalculated. Time will tell.

[robertpaulsen]

49. Aspiring autocrat defends deposed autocrat

That's the real morality at play here.