What better way to re-engage progressives than with a little social-media justice reform, right? Commuting life sentences? Emptying the social-media prisons, as it were? Offering the “illegals
What better way to re-engage progressives than with a little social-media justice reform, right? Commuting life sentences? Emptying the social-media prisons, as it were? Offering the “illegals” amnesty?
Don’t expect a lot of cheering from the Left when Elon Musk makes all of this come to pass next week for most of those locked out of their Twitter accounts. Clemency won’t be plenary, but it will still be broad in scope and scale:
Musk already has set a few limits to his amnesty program, or at least a few specific exceptions. Twitter users tried goading Musk into allowing Alex Jones back on the platform earlier this week, for instance, but Musk refused. The loss of children is too personal to him, Musk explained at the time:
That does not mean that no moderation standards will get applied in the future, however. One week ago, Musk laid out the operational philosophy of Twitter moderation: “Freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.” That has been augmented to a new policy where outright bans would be rare and likely focused on real threats and fraud.
