{"id":48106,"date":"2022-05-11T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48106"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T16:11:14","slug":"musk-open-to-reversing-ban-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48106","title":{"rendered":"Musk open to reversing ban on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said he&#8217;d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27670062.23116\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNDgzMjE1LW11c2stc2F5cy1oZWQtcmV2ZXJzZS10cnVtcHMtdHdpdHRlci1iYW4vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB1f2e146e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27670062.23116\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNDgzMjE1LW11c2stc2F5cy1oZWQtcmV2ZXJzZS10cnVtcHMtdHdpdHRlci1iYW4vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB1f2e146e&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652311806042000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mEwfLgLiHcoOgrrN8ApW1\">reverse<\/a>\u00a0former President Trump\u2019s ban from Twitter if his acquisition of the platform goes through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a morally bad decision, to be clear, and foolish in the extreme,\u201d said Musk, the CEO of Tesla,\u00a0while speaking at the Financial Times\u2019s \u201cFuture of the Car\u201d event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake,\u201d he added. \u201cIt alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27670062.23116\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9qYWNrL3N0YXR1cy8xNTI0MDk2NTI4NDE5Mjc0NzUzP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB9d85c93c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27670062.23116\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9qYWNrL3N0YXR1cy8xNTI0MDk2NTI4NDE5Mjc0NzUzP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB9d85c93c&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652311806042000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2CC6dlq7WZdVGWVTTHs4OM\">tweeted his support<\/a>\u00a0for ending Trump&#8217;s ban, saying that &#8220;generally permanent bans are a failure&#8230;and don&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter permanently banned Trump shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, saying that the then-president\u2019s posts on the platform could encourage more violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said he&#8217;d\u00a0reverse\u00a0former President Trump\u2019s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48107,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48106\/revisions\/48107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}