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Dorsey Agrees With Musk On Trump’s Twitter Ban

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said he backs Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s
plan to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account on the
platform, calling the move to ban Trump a “business decision” and a
“failure.”

Musk suggested on Tuesday he would overturn Trump’s suspension from
Twitter if his takeover bid for the social media platform ends in
success.

Twitter banned Trump from the platform following the Jan. 6 Capitol
breach, claiming his posts violated a glorification of violence
policy.

Speaking at a Future of the Car event hosted by the Financial Times on
May 10, Musk addressed Trump’s Twitter ban, saying he thinks “it was a
morally bad decision to be clear and foolish in the extreme.”

Dorsey backed Musk’s remarks, saying in a series of posts on Twitter
that the decision to permanently suspend Trump from the platform was a
mistake.

“I do agree. There are exceptions (CSE, illegal behaviour, spam or
network manipulation, etc), but generally permanent bans are a failure
of ours and don’t work, which I wrote about here after the event (and
called for a resilient social media protocol),” Dorsey said in a post
responding to a user who said Musk believes Dorsey agrees with him
that “there shouldn’t be permanent bans on individual Twitter users.”

Dorsey said in a follow-up post that banning Trump was a misguided
“business decision.”

“It was a business decision, it shouldn’t have been. and we should
always revisit our decisions and evolve as necessary. I stated in that
thread and still believe that permanent bans of individuals are
directionally wrong,” Dorsey wrote in the post.

Musk has offered to buy Twitter for around $43 billion, saying he
wants to actualize the company’s “extraordinary potential” to become a
true platform for free speech.
‘Time-Outs’ Rather Than Bans

Musk has earlier expressed reluctance about permanent bans of users
from Twitter, preferring instead temporary “time-outs.”

“I’m not saying that I have all the answers here,” Musk said at a
recent TED talk in Vancouver, Canada. “But I do think that we want to
be just very reluctant to delete things, just be very cautious with
permanent bans. Time-outs I think are better than permanent bans.”

Musk was asked point-blank during the Future of the Car event about
allowing Trump back on the social media platform.

“So I guess the answer is … I would reverse the perma-ban” on Trump’s
account, Musk said, cautioning that he “[doesn’t] own Twitter yet.”

“Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for
accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts,” Musk added.

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

Musk went on to argue that permanent bans undermine trust in Twitter.

“If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either
deleted or made invisible, and a suspension—a temporary suspension—is
appropriate, but not a permanent ban.”

In terms of adjusting Twitter’s moderation policies, Musk said earlier
he’d want to err on the side of free speech.

“If in doubt, let the speech, let it exist,” Musk said. “If it’s a
gray area, I would say let the tweet exist. But obviously in a case
where there’s perhaps a lot of controversy, that you would not want to
necessarily promote that tweet.”

“A good sign as to whether there’s free speech is, is someone you
don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like,” Musk said. “And
if that is the case, then we have free speech.”

Trump, for his part, has welcomed the prospect of Musk taking over
Twitter but the former president said he would not return to the
platform and would instead stay on Truth Social.