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-Land of the Free
Twitter unblocks Trump's account
2022-11-20
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Twitter has unblocked the account of former US President Donald Trump after the majority of participants in a survey conducted by the owner of the social network Elon Musk spoke in favor of it.

The former leadership indefinitely froze the @realDonaldTrump microblog with a blue "tick" indicating authenticity on January 8, 2021 - two days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to derail the congressional approval of Democrat Joe Biden 's presidential election victory .

Trump himself has not yet written anything on the page, which has again become visible along with all the publications, but users are already leaving comments there. In addition, the politician promised that he would not return to Twitter if he was unblocked.

The account of the ex-president of the United States has already gained almost 600 thousand subscribers.

The decision to restore the account was made by Musk after almost 52 percent of the 15 million participants in his poll voted for it.

Posted by:badanov

#23  There are some real nutballs out there.
David_Leavitt
How many Americans will die because @elonmusk brought @realDonaldTrump back onto Twitter?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2022-11-20 16:32  

#22  Just title this pic "The Revenge of the Nerds"...

https://nitter.it/pic/orig/enc/bWVkaWEvRmg2cXR6WVZVQUk1YVl2LmpwZw==
Posted by: Nero   2022-11-20 13:24  

#21  ^^^ #20 Interesting take on Elon Musk’s management approach following the takeover on the thread reader app...

A very astute thread from someone who knows how tech organizations really work.
Posted by: Nero   2022-11-20 13:21  

#20  Interesting take on Elon Musk’s management approach following the takeover on the thread reader app. For some reason this initial tweet of the thread was unavailable on Twitter for a bit, but now it looks like that decision was overruled:



Quote added in case an overenthusiastic drone over there gets uppity again:

Alright, I'm going to explain what Elon Musk is likely doing over there at Twitter. This is not a discussion on whether it's RIGHT OR WRONG; just what's happening.

If I'm wrong, I'm sure he'll pop up and say so.

What Elon is engaged in is something called "Whaling and Culling."
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-11-20 12:56  

#19  #11 When compared to the incontinent dog and monkey rodeo that was the pre Musk Twitter, I'll take the current version.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-11-20 12:44  

#18  Reminds me of the story (not sure if it's true) of Johnny Carson responding to Zsa Zsa Gabor about moving her [cat] from her lap.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-11-20 12:37  

#17  I had one the other day translate "pet the cat" as "masturbate the cat".

Guess that depends on how classy she is.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-11-20 12:29  

#16  CBS paused....36 hours

Bigger flops than the US Soccer Team. They at least went five days of Exciting Gay News! before, 'yeah, but not in Qatar."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-11-20 12:28  

#15  SteveS with a very subtle SOTD
Posted by: Frank G   2022-11-20 12:13  

#14  ^ The truth is the truth because it's true, not because it comes from an "approved outlet."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-11-20 12:05  

#13   Of all the sources, why this one?

We should only use approved news sources like the Daily Mail and GCHQ.
Otherwise, we are in danger of succumbing to wrongthink, or even worse, thinking for ourselves.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-11-20 12:04  

#12  Curtis Yarvin, AKA Mencius Moldbug calls the big leftist enterprise "The Cathedral." Twitter is the baptismal font and Musk is pissing in it.

Bra-vo, says I...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-11-20 11:55  

#11  Happy for Trump or not, this was all a circus with Musk as the ringleader.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-11-20 11:48  

#10  CBS paused....36 hours
Posted by: Frank G   2022-11-20 11:35  

#9  It's the same as moving to Canada in 2016: they're threatening us with the worst outcome they can imagine. They're going to deny us themselves.

Yes, they really think this is a threat and that it would be good if we went out of our way to give them what they want to avoid this outcome.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-11-20 10:54  

#8  The Twit meltdown on twitter is amazing to behold.

People saying they are going to close their account much like they moved from the USA when Trump won in '16.

CBS stated that it would 'pause' their use of twitter... and announced it on... twitter.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-11-20 10:21  

#7  Can't get closer to English than the BBC.

Musk lifts Donald Trump's Twitter ban
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-11-20 07:50  

#6  I am now wondering how many BOTS (Fake Users) Mr. Musk still has to remove?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-11-20 07:00  

#5  We can't get a good news source in English ...

'We' could if you would provide it.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-11-20 06:54  

#4  Now 52 million followers
Posted by: badanov   2022-11-20 06:30  

#3  Trump is up to 25 million followers
Posted by: badanov   2022-11-20 04:36  

#2  I find it interesting that in faraway Russia, in the midst of all its current troubles, they give space to this story about Twitter and former president Trump.

The Times of Israel does, too, adding:

Earlier this month, Musk, who completed the $44 billion takeover of Twitter in late October, declared that the company wouldn’t let anyone who had been kicked off the site return until Twitter had established procedures on how to do so, including forming a “content moderation council.”

On Friday, Musk tweeted that the suspended Twitter accounts for the comedian Kathy Griffin, the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and the conservative Christian news satire website Babylon Bee had been reinstated. He added that a decision on Trump had not yet been made. He also responded “no” when someone on Twitter asked him to reinstate the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account.

In a tweet Friday, the Tesla CEO described the company’s new content policy as “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.”

He explained that a tweet deemed to be “negative” or to include “hate” would be allowed on the site but would be visible only to users who specifically searched for it. Such tweets also would be “demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter,” Musk said.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-11-20 04:26  

#1  Of all the sources, why this one? And in translation? We can't get a good news source in English instead of unsteady auto-translation?

I had one the other day translate "pet the cat" as "masturbate the cat".
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811   2022-11-20 02:39  

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