And back to Elon Musk for a moment... He's gone and pulled another Pontius Pilate move by running a poll WRT a general amnesty for banned accounts, showing that 1) he still won't own his decisions and 2) he still hasn't got a clue what his current favourite Latin phrase means.
The people have spoken.
Amnesty begins next week.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
7:58 pm · 24 Nov 2022
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595869526469533701When you read the original quote* from which "
Vox populi, vox dei" has been plucked, it's actually warning about people like Musk:
"
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." translates as:
"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. "
Given the likelihood of bot accounts being used to get the "right" result, the more appropriate Latin should be (with a nod to William T. Sherman) "
Vox falsorum hominum, vox humbug."
![demon :demon:](/forum/Smileys/classic/Evil.gif)
*
From a letter the scholar Alcuin of York wrote to Charlemagne in 798.