Starting next week, many of the suspended accounts on Twitter are going to get a second chance.
On Nov. 23, Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll asking, "Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?"
In total, over 3.1 million people responded and the majority of them (72.4%) answered "Yes." So yesterday, Musk tweeted that "The people have spoken" and announced an amnesty for suspended accounts, which begins next week. He ended the tweet by quoting the Latin phrase "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" which translates to mean "the voice of the people is the voice of God."
It was pointed out in a response tweet that this Latin phrase actually has an alternate context. Scholar Alcuin of York, who lived from 735 to 804, used it negatively to state, "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."
Whichever context you prefer, it seems Twitter is going to offer a second chance and see what happens. However, we don't have any details yet on how the amnesty will work, with Musk's latest tweet at the time of writing changing the subject to "What do you think of the culture war?" along with the tag "Need advice."