After purchasing twitter, Elon Musk to lift ban on Trump

Elon Musk has said he would lift Twitter’s ban on former US president Donald Trump when the his deal with the global messaging platform is successful.

Musk on Tuesday May 10, 2022 at a Financial Times conference said “I would reverse the permanent ban.

Recall that the world richest man recently completed one of the biggest acquisitions of 2022, after buying Twitter for $44 billion.

It should be noted that the deal is yet to be finalised as it awaits backing of shareholders and regulators.

According to Musk, he opined that the ban on twitter is tantamount to denying of ones freedom of expression which is a fundamental human right.

He said: “I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump.

“I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country, and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice,” he said.

Trump was booted from Twitter and other online platforms after supporters fired up by his tweets alleging election fraud attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a deadly and failed bid to stop Joe Biden from being certified as the victor in the US presidential election.

Musk said he and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey are of similar mind in that permanent bands should be rare, reserved for accounts that are spam, scams or run by software “bots.”

That doesn’t mean that somebody gets to say whatever they want to say,” Musk said.

“If they say something that is illegal or otherwise just destructive to the world, then there should be a perhaps a timeout, a temporary suspension, or that particular tweet should be made invisible or have very limited attraction.”

Musk was adamant, though, that he feels permanent bans are a “morally bad decision” that undermine trust in Twitter as an online town square where everyone cane be heard.

He noted that Trump has stated publicly that he would not come back to Twitter if permitted, opting instead to stick with his own social network, which has failed to gain traction.