‘Welcome Back’ Trends as Twitter Restores James O’Keefe and Dozens of Other Banned Accounts
It’s a whole new era on Twitter, thanks to Elon Musk.
On Friday, Twitter restored dozens of accounts which were banned in recent years in a sign of how different things have become on the site under the leadership of Elon Musk.
This is not entirely unexpected. Musk promised to do this a few weeks ago.
CNN reported on November 25th:
Elon Musk says he will begin restoring previously banned Twitter accounts next week
Elon Musk said Thursday that he will begin restoring most previously banned accounts on Twitter starting next week, in his most wide-reaching move yet to undo the social media platform’s policy of permanently suspending users who repeatedly violated its rules.
“The people have spoken,” Musk tweeted on Thursday. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.”
The announcement comes after Musk on Wednesday polled his followers about whether to offer “general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.”
The poll, which closed around 12:45 pm ET on Thursday, finished with 72.4% voting in favor of the proposition and 27.6% voting against. The poll garnered more than 3 million votes on Twitter.
Musk was good to his word. Here are some of the accounts that were just reactivated.
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas.
I’M BACK ON TWITTER LIKE I NEVER LEFT #VERITAS pic.twitter.com/Mq5Kxygi3v
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 16, 2022
Mike Lindell of MyPillow.
I'm back!! Thank you @elonmusk and by the way MELT DOWN THE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES AND TURN THEM INTO PRISON BARS!
— Mike Lindell (@realMikeLindell) December 16, 2022
Conservative journalist Emerald Robinson.
I held the line. I never bent the knee. And now I’m back. Thanks to everyone who supported me the last twelve months.
All glory to God.
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) December 17, 2022
Lawyer and conservative activist Rogan O’Handley.
BREAKING: I’m finally BACK on Twitter
I was suspended 22 months ago after the California Gov’t sent emails to Twitter requesting that I be censored for “election misinformation” – see attached excerpt from my lawsuit
I will *never* stop fighting for our 1st Amendment rights!! pic.twitter.com/FBa5ajx3vn
— Rogan O’Handley 🇺🇸 (@DC_Draino) December 16, 2022
Conservative blogger Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit and Pamela Geller.
Thank you! Welcome back! https://t.co/fbeB8ZTw05
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) December 16, 2022
Pastor Greg Locke.
PRAISE THE LORD!! My Twitter is restored. 🔥🔥🔥
— Pastor Greg Locke (@pastorlocke) December 17, 2022
Dr. Robert W. Malone.
I'm back…
Welcome to Fifth Gen (Information) Warfare
The battleground is consensus of the swarm and your own mind.
Please share my substack from today.https://t.co/P3ajzoiUbm— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) December 13, 2022
Dr. Peter A. McCullough.
Alot happened while in Twitter exile. Most important was the US Senate Panel on Dec 7, 2022, where experts testified on the flawed design of LNP-mRNA, injuries, disabilities, and death. Here was the punchline. Send this to mandaters! @SenRonJohnson https://t.co/JFPawqIS5x
— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ (@P_McCulloughMD) December 13, 2022
Daniel Horowitz of the Blaze.
Well folks, it looks like I'm back. I want to apologize for the misinformation. For too long, I was underestimating the magnitude of injury from the COVID gene juice. I won't make that mistake again. Thank you @elonmusk for free speech, the right to dissent, and reasoned logic.
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) December 16, 2022
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Kirsch.
I'm back. But because I was permanently banned twice, I never got my original followers back (they only restored my followers I accumulated between the two bans). Please follow, like, and retweet so we can help get the truth out! Thank you Elon! pic.twitter.com/kv5BmVTJat
— Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) December 16, 2022
Writer Matt Couch.
Thank You @elonmusk and all of those who've fought to get my account reinstated!!
Love Y'all!
Let's dance Twitter! pic.twitter.com/lr2OYvtgUO
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) December 16, 2022
Writer Kanekoa.
I'm back!! Just down 60k followers and @yoyoel flagged my @SubstackInc homepage as malware lol.
Any other independent journalists being censored? How do I remove my substack from this blacklist? @elonmuskhttps://t.co/TS3PuaZeNR pic.twitter.com/SKmw2Ukzxk
— Kanekoa (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 16, 2022
Conservative activist Mindy Robinson.
Guess who’s back on Twitter!
Comment below if I used to follow you so I can follow you back on here, it only showed 33 followers as of this morning instead of the 200k+ there was for whatever reason. pic.twitter.com/9WRvvUDBqG
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) December 16, 2022
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Comments
Elon has dark forces remaining
I’m currently banned and told to remove “A jab’ll do ya #diedsuddenly” because it’s harrassing an individual snowflake
Not happeneing
Oh my. How does The Whining Wad bitch about the suspended Doxxers, without bringing attention to the perma-banned wrongthinkers also coming back?
Set the way the story is framed, and you win before it starts. The Whining Wad — or rather their handlers and word crafters — have worked this way forever.
They’d have done better to keep the lying Hoft brothers out.
You do understand that you don’t have to read anything they post right?
GateWayPundit is a major problem for the right, and Milhouse is correct to point it out.
Milhouse and I disagree all the time sometimes ferociously (just ask him) he is dead right however to point out the GatewayPundit and others are extreme liabilities for us and we need to start building up an immunity for ourselves against them.
What is the specific issue with the Gateway Pundit? I have my own opinions, but I’m curious about this position.
BECAUSE THEY JUST ARE!! To people like Danny they hate TGWP because they aren’t afraid to just come out and tell people how corrupted Democrats are. They also hate TGWP because they are unabashed Trump supporters and THAT is the absolute worst crime actual conservatives can commit, supporting an actual conservative President who actually achieved amazing things in spite of the shit show staged against him through his term.
They are liars and fake news that’s what.
They would do better to not ban people because of personal dislike: an opinion I am sad to see that you do not apparently share.
I’ll bite. What are their specific lies?
Off the top of my head
1. They claimed PA got back more ballots than they sent out in 2020 (an extremely blatant lie they created it by replacing the numbers PA sent out during the general election with that sent out during the primary).
2. They claimed Trump lawsuits got kicked out without a hearing (an even worst lie and one that like the first actually stuck; I have quoted from JUDICIAL DECISIONS written by those judges AFTER HEARING THE CASE over a hundred times here).
3. They richly deserve to be bankrupt for this alone but they personally targeted people who worked at Dominion.
4. Claimed Republican Party claimed voter fraud in Florida 2016 (it did no such thing making that one a lie the Republican Party has never claimed fraud in the 2016 Florida election that GatewayPundit claim was for clicks)
5. Claimed the Georgia Secretary of State had a brother named Ron who worked for a Chinese tech company
6. For purposes of this not being a hundred points long will just say 2020
Fake news harms our side because once you are caught in some lies you destroy your credibility at everything else.
Someone you have lied to and claimed that PA got back more ballots than it sent out will not believe anything else from you.
They are willing to tell deliberate lies to you to make you believe what they want you to believe. That alone makes them a liability.
Well, that’s certainly disappointing. They seem to bring some statistical expertise to the table that is sorely lacking elsewhere. It’s unfortunate if they can’t be trusted.
The one valuable thing they did for me back in 2020 was reveal the existence of the Edison data feeds for election returns on the New York Times site. I was able to download all the JSON data for several states and perform some analysis. To say that there were anomalies would be a gross understatement. Perhaps their reputation was one of the reasons why that line of inquiry didn’t seem to get pursued by anyone else I could find.
This, for example. There haven’t been enough data experts out there to explain things like this from the Pennsylvania returns:
{
“vote_shares”: {
“bidenj”: 0.664,
“trumpd”: 0.312
},
“votes”: 1325632,
“eevp”: 19,
“eevp_source”: “edison”,
“timestamp”: “2020-11-04T02:21:59Z”
}, {
“vote_shares”: {
“bidenj”: 0.627,
“trumpd”: 0.363
},
“votes”: 739443,
“eevp”: 19,
“eevp_source”: “edison”,
“timestamp”: “2020-11-04T02:22:45Z”
}
So people should only be permitted to tweet if you approve of what they say?
Let everyone on. Hold everyone accountable for common sense violations; child exploitation, revenge porn, location doxing, doxing of residence location, calls for violence against a specific person or group and coordination of violent criminal action under US law. Let the Twitter user universe police ‘misinformation’ by adding tags. Beyond those basic things let the marketplace rule. Users can read, follow or block things as they wish. My two cents.
Politically verboten speech is politically congruent (“=”) to stalking. Musk is outing the progressive liberal (i.e. monotonically divergent) and their anarchist bedmates.
From a previous L.I. post: “FBI flagged even satire tweets: “The takeaway: what most people think of as the “deep state” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) NGOs.””
I’ve seen the bluebird cage and the damage done. The literal fascist psy-op of choaked info and shaped narrative helped to steal the 2020 election.
This ongoing bluebird poop fest is merely ‘back to muh normal’ distraction Elon is allowed to perform in order to placate the normies. Meanwhile, all the degenerate marxist meat puppets in JoeBama World continue burn down the country.
But now they are doing it with a little light shining on them.