Alex Jones Reinstated On X, Elon Musk Vows To Risk Prison Defending Lawful Speech
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Alex Jones' account on X was restored five years after he was banned by previous then woke Twitter management. Elon Musk conducted a poll over the weekend that showed 70.1% of 1.9 million respondents favored bringing back the Infowars host.
"Vox Populi, Vox Dei," the X owner wrote Saturday, sharing the Latin saying meaning the voice of the people is the voice of God.
"The people have spoken and so it shall be," Musk wrote early Sunday, before Jones wrote his comeback post few hours later which was a repost of internet personality and entrepreneur Andrew Tate.
When Jones was banned in September 2018, the @RealAlexJones account had more than 900,000 followers on X, and Infowars had about 430,000. Since his first post after reinstatement, the account has accumulated 1.3 million followers and counting. Then-Twitter permanently banned him and his Infowars show, after he shared a video of him confronting far-left CNN blogger Oliver Darcy who was pushing for advertiser boycott and censorship against Jones.
Following his comeback to X, Jones and Musk later on Sunday, participated in X Spaces townhall featuring among other guests, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Tate, businessman Patrick Bet-David, retired Gen. Mike Flynn and Florida Republican congressman Matt Gaetz.
The X owner previously said he would not let Jones back on the platform despite repeated calls to do so. Last year, Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child and tweeted, "I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame." He's referencing Jones' controversial coverage of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six educators.
Musk started off his remarks during Sunday's X Spaces townhall by asking Jones about the controversial shooting coverage. The Infowars host explained that he merely covered other people's conspiracies surrounding the tragic incident. Far-left activists and media outlets including Media Matters, "dug it back up" years later and bamboozled the victims' families into suing him, Jones explained.
In 2022, Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting for spreading lies about the massacre; a trial that critics have denounced as outrageously unfair, and violates the First Amendment rights of the Infowars host.
During Sunday's X Spaces townhall, Musk said he's suing Media Matters and everyone funding the far-left outlet which published a bogus report that led to advertiser boycott of the social media platform.
"Media Matters is an evil propaganda machine," the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said. "I just generally am against evil propaganda machines. We are suing them in every country that they operate. And we will pursue not just the organization, but anyone funding that organization. I want to be clear about that. Anyone funding that organization, we will pursue them. So Media Matters is an evil propaganda machine. They can go to hell. I hope they do."
Responding to questions about how X will handle moderation and censorship requests from governments, agencies and activist groups, Musk said that X hopes to be "as transparent as possible."
"Basically we will see everything that is happening on the system and nothing will be hidden, that is the goal," the X owner said. "We will be as transparent as possible; and frankly if I think a government agency is breaking the law in their demands in the platform I would be prepared to go to prison personally if I think they are the ones breaking the law."
Tate and Musk and the other guests on the X Spaces townhall, also discussed the globalists' -- or the matrix as Tate calls them -- effort to censor and control the masses and population via fascist climate change agenda.
"Earth can easily sustain far more than the current population," Musk said "But they've been told this thing, and they've believed it, and it is false. I'm very pro-environment. Obviously, I might have done more for sustainable energy than maybe any single human."
On his part, Tate said: "We still control the world, and it's down to what we will accept. And it's going to take bravery and love. You need to love the people around you and love the human race and love the place you're from."
"And that's why the system was scared of you, Andrew," Jones chimed in. "Because you were doing an extreme version of it, to shock them out of it, to show them how to have a destiny, how to have desire, how to want to be into the future,".
On a lighter note during their conversation about humanists versus anti-humanists, the Tesla chief asked the X Spaces guests whether they have children. Tate assured the SpaceX chief that he has and joked that he's coming to take Musk's crown. The X owner has 10 children.
Another hilarious moment was captured during the X Spaces townhall, when Ramaswamy can be heard using his bathroom for several minutes.
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