The people have spoken.\n<\/p>\n
Amnesty begins next week.\n<\/p>\n
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The phrase Musk uses at the end of the tweet above \u2013 “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” \u2013 translates from Latin as “Voice of the people, voice of God”. It’s a quote from Machiavelli, which in context is warning against<\/em> listening to people who say “the voice of the people is the voice of God”.<\/p>\n Machiavelli thought the voice of the people tends towards insanity. It’s like he saw social media coming.<\/p>\n The amnesty comes despite Musk having previously promised to form a content moderation council before making any decision about reinstating accounts.<\/p>\n Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.\n<\/p>\n No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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:<\/p>\n 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.\n<\/p>\n They broke the deal.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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