It’s the second major moderation decision he’s made since taking over after unbanning former President Donald Trump.
The decision to reverse years of moderation work at Twitter effectively trashes Musk’s original promise: to create a diverse council that would help adjudicate serious moderation decisions. Musk then backed out of the idea by blaming “political/social activist groups” for breaking an alleged “deal” — a claim nobody has verified.
The poll was a blowout, with 72.4% of respondents voting “yes” toward unbanning accounts, from a pool of slightly more than 3 million votes. It’s not clearvoted; Musk spent a long time trying to get out of buying Twitter based on claims that the service was filled with bots and inauthentic accounts. It’s still not clear which accounts will be allowed back. Musk said accounts that have “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam” would not be coming back. But breaking the law is an extremely high bar for moderation since most people don’t break the law by simply being awful people.
Elon Musk began his Twitter reign by declaring that “comedy is legal.” Now it seems like almost anything goes.
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