FWIW, Elon tweeted this today:<p>> To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies<p><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586149451348910081" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586149451348910081</a><p>So it's not clear why these supposedly banned groups are now supposedly able to rejoin without consequence?<p>I suppose "not changing the policies" isn't synonymous with "continuing to enforce the stated policies".
Twitter had become a platform not for discourse, but for passing judgment instead of disagreeing. I prefer to ignore peoples judgmentalisms, but unfortunately, they seem to have militated to enforce them.<p>At the risk of being a bit too cheeky, if these users are really that concerned about unregulated opinion, maybe they should build their own platform or buy one of the struggling ones out? They have the advantage that people want to be around them because of their personal qualities, and there's no danger of them losing their bank accounts, or having their ISPs threatened with unrelated litigation, and I hear the fediverse is pretty cool. I would love to read their collective wit on Mastadon.<p>Beyond cheek, it's a good test of the argument. Instead of suffering on twitter, why not just move to a platform that is more welcoming to their judgments?
I know it’s only been a day or so but this is bad only because they are unbanning boring posters and none of the fun ones who got banned.
Sad to see paring back of moderation happen only to groups like this.
No one is forcing us to follow these figures on Twitter or vote for their party.<p>Let the party members say what they like within the law. Debunk if it need be, and let adults decide for themselves what the truth is.<p>If authoritarians try to stop us hearing from a political party, they remove our agency. And we don’t like that.<p>Ever heard of the Streisand Effect?
The solution is to allow people to one-click filter their feeds. If a person does not what to see the word "Trump" or any vulgarity, slurs, anything, they can one-click, or very simply, block those.<p>What has always bothered me about the Twitter censorship war is that the people most angry are the ones wanting to silence speech. I say let speech be free, identify the people, groups, and ideas you don't want, and block it out. Build your own town square.