The Santa Clara County district attorney on Monday announced his office will be leaving Twitter, saying the move was part of 'a moral obligation' to combat hate speech.
The Santa Clara County district attorney on Monday announced his office will be leaving Twitter, saying the move was part of "a moral obligation" to combat hate speech.
"I hope there are others particularly DA's offices that will consider quitting Twitter for the same reasons I have," said Rosen. "That is not a principled stand. That is complicity," Rosen said, adding, "That is what many Germans did in the 1930s and what many South Africans did in the 1980s. It is what Elon Musk is doing in the 2020s."
Musk said his decision to grant amnesty followed a poll in which he asked Twitter users to vote on the plan to allow the reinstatement of suspended accounts that have not "broken the law or engaged in egregious spam." 72% of those who took part in the survey said yes. "I feel it's important for people to exercise their freedom of speech. This is an example of actual freedom of speech," said Alan Marling, who organized the projection protest.Rosen on Monday said his office will turn to other avenues such as Facebook and the office's official website to inform the public.
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