Twitter won't restore Alex Jones' account, Elon Musk says

[speak easy]

Source: CNN

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones won’t be returning to Twitter and will remain banned from the platform, according to its new owner, Elon Musk.

Musk declared on Friday that Jones’ account will not be restored, in spite of some users’ requests, and spent the weekend defending the decision even as Twitter moved to restore other suspended accounts including that of former President Donald Trump.

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Musk elaborated on his position Sunday evening, citing Bible scripture and his own personal experience with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to explain his opposition to Jones, who has been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat,” Musk tweeted. “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/tech/alex-jones-twitter-ban

[Ocelot II]

1. So you have to be as odious as Alex Jones to get 86'd from Twitter?

[WA-03 Democrat]

2. Don't worry

Elon will have a fair twitter vote and Alex will give him a cut soon.

[riversedge]

6. yes. Bannon rates below Trumpy. I think one is as bad as the other.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Eloon is running scared.

.

Originally, this was going to be a Jeff Ross "Too Soon" bit. Not his words.



.

[durablend]

4. Yeah, he'll change his tune

"To pwn teh libs" and stuff

[yaesu]

5. only because he is a financial liability, Musk would love him to tweet his filth otherwise. nt

[SouthernDem4ever]

29. very true

doesn't want to be named in the lawsuits

[JI7]

7. He is probably worried they could sue him for what Alex Jones

uses his platform for.

[smb]

8. Bible Scripture?

"Thou shalt not approach too near to the world's biggest liability magnet." --Two Corinthians

[AllaN01Bear]

9. but u let the former guy come back who led an inssurection against the us

and that action killed ppl.

[orangecrush]

21. +1

Glad someone else noticed that...

[Grokenstein]

10. This is gonna be...well, not GOOD, but...

Rightwankers on Twitter have been yarping "Alex Jones is the litmus test" at each other for days now.

Have at him, clowns.

[tinrobot]

11. Is Musk becoming the sole arbiter of who gets to be on Twitter?

I agree Jones should remain off of Twitter, but it seems like Musk's reasoning is rather capricious and personal. Bible verses? Personal anectdotes?

It shouldn't be about his personal feelings or beliefs. He should leave the decisions to a neutral board. Like the one he just fired.

[speak easy]

26. yes

100% ownership. His toy.

[Kennah]

12. That's a bridge too far? OK, muskrat.

[jcgoldie]

13. In other words

Elon is the king and its all arbitrary based on how he feels. He draws the line at Alex Jones but Trump lies are A-OK as well as Kanye's antisemitism.

[SouthernDem4ever]

30. Unless the government gets involved

Elon is king of twatter.

[Polybius]

14. Well, I'll take any bit of good news I can get

Musk is right on this one, I too have no sympathy for those that use the death of children for any types of gains.

[chowder66]

15. Unless it happens to him, there is no mercy or consideration for anyone else.

Yet Musk was bullied as a kid so by his own standard he should have no mercy for TFG... but I guess that's a bridge too far since Musk himself became a bully.

[Obvious85]

16. Is sad that the whims of a man-child decide this instead of a business policy

It inspires no confidence

[ToxMarz]

17. He really must have too much time on his hands

to spend it individually reviewing and approving/deny every twitter account. I guess he doesn't actually do much at his other companies except bark at them and insist they be exceptional.

[VGNonly]

18. No Jones

but yes to t-rump and Kanye Twitty...

[RussBLib]

19. Oh, that's where you draw the line?

Totally arbitrary

Fomenting an insurrection isn't over the line, obviously.

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Why not a vote for all the idiots?

[patphil]

22. No political capitol to be acquired there.

You can bet if Muskie saw Alex Jones as someone who could help him down the road, he would have reinstated him.

[YoshidaYui]

23. Jones might be too busy for Twitter

Trying to make money to pay all those families back...

[keithbvadu2]

24. That's what Musk says today.

[JenniferJuniper]

25. Liability

That's the only thing he's worried about.

[JI7]

27. But he isn't Jewish or black or a woman so he is ok letting anti semites, racists, misogynists back

on .

[Shipwack]

28. Well, he did say Kathy Griffin could come back...

... but as far as I know she's the only lefty that got offered a reprieve.

To her credit she is declining the "honor"...

[pfitz59]

31. So Musk has the time to decide individual access?

Will he rule on every single Twit account?