{"id":18784,"date":"2022-11-25T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/your-tormentors-will-return-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T05:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T05:53:00","slug":"your-tormentors-will-return-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/your-tormentors-will-return-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Your tormentors will return \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided to allow suspended accounts back onto the micro-blogging service.<\/p>\n

Musk used the same process for this decision as he did when restoring access to a Florida Man who once held high elected office in the US \u2013 an utterly unscientific and easy to manipulate poll of Twitter users.<\/p>\n

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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

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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

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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

Twitter’s definition<\/a> of abusive behavior includes:<\/p>\n