Elon Musk acquired Twitter at USD 44 billion after backing out from the deal. He will further make certain necessary changes to Twitter and its settings. One significant change that he believes needs to be made is to reverse some of the banned accounts from Twitter.
Therefore, Elon Musk on Tuesday commented that he would revive some of the banned accounts, most prominently the account of the former President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Why was Donald Trump’s Twitter account banned?
US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was permanently banned by Twitter. The company said that they have suspended the account due to the risk of incitement of violence following the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021. At first Mr. Trump’s account was banned for 12 hours after he called the people who stormed the US capitol “patriots”. The people were supporters of Joe Biden as the US Congress attempted to certify the victory of Joe Biden.
The rush resulted in 4 deaths of civilians and a police officer. Twitter warned Mr. Trump that they will permanently ban him if he doesn’t follow the platform rules again. Mr. Trump wrote two tweets after being allowed back on Twitter. Those tweets were “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape, or form!!!”
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
Till today, Donald Trump is restricted from social media platforms. Elon Musk said that he found the reason behind Trump’s restriction on social media a very grave mistake and that banning his account would not end or silence the matter that happened.
Twitter explained that Musk said that he feels permanent bans should be “extremely rare” and set aside for “bots, or spam/scam accounts.” However, this won’t indicate that there will be freedom of speech nor will they be allowed to say anything they like.
According to Musk, if anyone posts something illicit or harmful to the world they will face a “time out,” that is, temporary suspension, or have their tweet made invisible. a rare transparent glimpse into how social networks decide what stays and what goes. It’s a big action taken by Twitter that people believe should have been brought in months ago as it’s beneficial to have what is so frequently an inscrutable high-level judgment-making strategy laid out honestly and publicly for all to see.
Musk firmly believed that there might be a mistake. He further added that banning Trump will not solve the problem but will simply intensify it which is morally wrong.
