The users of Twitter voted for Elon Musk, the company’s current CEO, to step down from the position after he posted a poll on his social media account late Sunday afternoon. Musk put up the poll after a rather sour policy rollout happened earlier in the day, which forbid users from being able to promote rival social media platforms, a step that led to swift backlash washing over the CEO.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” Musk shared in a tweet. “I will abide by the results of this poll.”
According to the Daily Wire, the poll finished with 17,502,391 accounts sharing their opinion through the poll. A total of 57 percent voted in favor of removing Musk, while another 42.5 percent want to see him stay in control.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” the company revealed in a statement. “Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.”
The heat Musk caught over the change in policy soon transformed into confusion after he said he was reversing course concerning the change.
“Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule,” Musk said in a tweet.
Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
After the horrendously bad rollout of the policy during the thick of the World Cup, Musk posted a tweet saying, “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”
“The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive,” Musk continued. “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”
“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive,” Musk later stated. “There is no successor.”
I think we’re much better off with Musk in the driver’s seat of the company than anyone else. He’s proven to stick to his word of taking action and attempting to flush the awfulness out of the platform so that it can once again serve as the digital town square that it was always destined to become.
If someone else takes over, we’re likely to see things revert back to what they were before the Tesla CEO bought the company. This means shadow bans, censorship of opinions concerning the ideas and issues of the day, plus news stories being suppressed when they are not up to snuff for the liberals attempting to control every facet of the media.
Twitter just got rescued. A return to the dark times could have sinister results. Let’s hope that’s not the direction Musk decides to walk down. At least before he’s had proper time to invest and back an individual for the job who shares his vision and understands why free speech is so critical.
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