Republicans and conservatives who’ve been suspended from Twitter for referring to transgender individuals by their biological sex say they hope and expect that they will be allowed to return once billionaire Elon Musk takes control of the platform.
Musk, who bought Twitter earlier this week, promised to make significant changes to the platform, with a focus on free speech, and dangled the possibility of bringing back controversial users who have been banned.
The rule is one of several aspects of Twitter's governance that conservatives have said reveals bias. Conservatives have also faulted Twitter for suppressing the news regarding Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election and for deplatforming conservatives, such as former President Donald Trump, prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, among others.
Twitter temporarily locked Banks's account, saying he would regain access if he deleted the tweet about Levine. Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri had her Twitter account suspended in February for violating the platform’s rules against hateful conduct because of a tweet in which she contended that “women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” referring to a college swimmer who is trans.
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