{"id":3064,"date":"2022-05-10T19:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2022-05-11T02:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:19:32","slug":"elon-musk-would-reverse-donald-trumps-permanent-ban-from-twitter-he-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Would Reverse Donald Trump&#8217;s Permanent Ban From Twitter, He Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"rumble\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v11nlo2\/?pub=24ns9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>May 10, 2022 at 03:22PM Elon Musk Would Reverse Donald Trump&#8217;s Permanent Ban From Twitter, He Says<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/TWTR:US\">Twitter Inc.<\/a> was \u201cfoolish in the extreme\u201d in kicking former US President Donald Trump off its service and his permanent ban should be ended, said Elon Musk, the billionaire who has agreed to acquire the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would reverse the permanent ban,\u201d Musk said Tuesday at a Financial Times conference, in response to a question that asked him directly about Trump. \u201cPerma bans just fundamentally undermine trust in Twitter as a town square where everyone can voice their opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Booting the former president off the site \u201cdidn\u2019t end Trump\u2019s voice,\u201d Musk said. \u201cIt will amplify it among the right. This is why it is morally wrong and flat-out stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy opinion, and Jack Dorsey I want to be clear shares this opinion, is that we should not have permanent bans,\u201d Musk said, referring to the Twitter co-founder and former chief executive officer. Dorsey tweeted his agreement, and both men added caveats that illegal behavior or spam wouldn\u2019t be allowed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-26\/elon-musk-s-balancing-act-twitter-tesla-and-the-future-of-free-speech?sref=SCKvL4TY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk Stakes a $44 Billion Claim on the Future of Free Speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk, who reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for roughly $44 billion late last month, has said that he believes the San Francisco-based company has overstepped on policing user speech and wants to push it toward a more free-speech-focused approach.<\/p>\n<p>But Musk also cast a bit of doubt about whether the deal, which would make Twitter a private company, will go through. He\u2019s still in the process of lining up the necessary funding to complete the transaction.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t own Twitter yet, so this is not like a thing that will definitely happen,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat if I don\u2019t own Twitter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has <a title=\"Trump Tells Fox News He\u2019ll Stay Off Twitter Even If Ban Lifted\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-25\/trump-says-he-won-t-return-to-twitter-even-if-musk-buys-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he won\u2019t return to the service even if the ban is lifted. He is backing his own social media company, called Truth Social. A Trump spokesman didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge James Donato last week threw out the former president\u2019s challenge to his permanent ban from Twitter. The San Francisco judge gave Trump\u2019s lawyers a chance to revise the suit and try again, but warned they will have to show that Twitter was acting as a government censor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10, 2022 at 03:22PM Elon Musk Would Reverse Donald Trump&#8217;s Permanent Ban From Twitter,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pete-santilli-post","category-truth-bomb"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=1936%2C1148&ssl=1",1936,1148,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=300%2C178&ssl=1",300,178,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=640%2C379&ssl=1",640,379,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=640%2C379&ssl=1",640,379,true],"rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"rpg_gallery_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=1536%2C911&ssl=1",1536,911,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=1936%2C1148&ssl=1",1936,1148,true],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?resize=1280%2C720&ssl=1",1280,720,true],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=1024%2C607&ssl=1",1024,607,true],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?resize=720%2C380&ssl=1",720,380,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Pete Santilli - Opinion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?cat=213\" rel=\"category\">Truth Bomb<\/a>","tag_info":"Truth Bomb","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-10-at-3.49.35-PM.png?fit=1936%2C1148&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-Nq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}