Jack Dorsey the deranged weirdo who allegedly runs Twitter, put out a series of posts explaining why banning the President of the United States was 100 percent necessary. He basically claimed that banning Trump along with tens of thousands of other pro-Trump accounts was needed to limit violence. The last straw being the fun party at the Capitol Building that resulted in a stolen podium.
AP:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s ban of President Donald Trump in a philosophical Twitter thread that is his first public statement on the subject.
When Trump incited his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol last week, then continued to tweet potentially ominous messages, Dorsey said the resulting risk to public safety created an “extraordinary and untenable circumstance” for the company. Having already briefly suspended Trump’s account the day of the Capitol riot, Twitter on Friday banned Trump entirely, then smacked down the president’s attempts to tweet using other accounts.
“I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter,“ Dorsey wrote. But he added: ”I believe this was the right decision for Twitter.”
Dorsey acknowledged that shows of strength like the Trump ban could set dangerous precedents, even calling them a sign of “failure.” Although not in so many words, Dorsey suggested that Twitter needs to find ways to avoid having to make such decisions in the first place. Exactly how that would work isn’t clear, although it could range from earlier and more effective moderation to a fundamental restructuring of social networks.
In Dorsey-speak, that means Twitter needs to work harder to “promote healthy conversation.”
Extreme measures such as banning Trump also highlight the extraordinary power that Twitter and other Big Tech companies can wield without accountability or recourse, Dorsey wrote.
While Twitter was grappling with the problem of Trump, for instance, Apple, Google and Amazon were effectively shutting down the right-wing site Parler by denying it access to app stores and cloud-hosting services. The companies charged that Parler wasn’t aggressive enough about removing calls to violence, which Parler has denied.
Dorsey declined to criticize his Big Tech counterparts directly, even noting that “this moment in time might call for this dynamic.” Over the long term, however, he suggested that aggressive and domineering behavior could threaten the “noble purpose and ideals” of the open internet by entrenching the power of a few organizations over a commons that should be accessible to everyone.
He further added that if people did not like what he did, that people were welcome to use another service. This after Dorsey put out a tweet gloating about Parler, one of their main competitors, being forced offline after large Silicon Valley firms colluded against them. So it isn’t like people really can go to an alternative service with Parler being offline and Gab being barely usable at the moment.
Simply put, this fool is living on another planet. Limiting people’s ability to speak and express their grievances only increases the possibility of violence. You can’t tell half if not more of the country that their views are not welcome in the digital public square and not expect some major problems. Especially with the economic and societal situation we have that has been the result of all these lunatic virus lockdowns. People are on the brink of going crazy and limiting their speech will only drive more people over the edge.
Over the past several years, assholes like Dorsey have banned people from the digital public square simply for having opinions that they dislike. Questioning the election fraud and the coronavirus hoax has been enough to get people banned from all the different big social media sites.
I remember when these sites first started arbitrarily banning people for their opinions. I knew when they started doing this that they were dooming themselves into an unwinnable position. You can’t claim that you run a free and open platform while simultaneously acting as the thought police.
The good news is that the backlash is here and it isn’t going to be good for people like Dorsey.
