Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: your tormentors are coming back
The phrase Musk uses at the end of the tweet above –"Vox Populi, Vox Dei" – translates from Latin as"Voice of the people, voice of God". It's a quote from Machiavelli, which in context is warningMachiavelli thought the voice of the people tends towards insanity. It's like he saw social media coming.
The amnesty comes despite Musk having previously promised to form a content moderation council before making any decision about reinstating accounts.No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.Musk appears to have walked back that decision earlier this week when, in a thread about freedom of speech on Twitter, he weighed in as follows:
A large coalition of political/social activist groups agreed not to try to kill Twitter by starving us of advertising revenue if I agreed to this condition.
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