Posted on 08/18/2018 4:56:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he "fully admit[s]" Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives are discriminated against on the social media platform.
In an interview that aired Saturday on CNN, Dorsey said his company has a responsibility to be open about its political viewpoints, but to operate without bias when applying content policies to users.
"We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is...is more left-leaning," Dorsey says.
"But the real question behind the question is, are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints? And we are not. Period," he added.
Dorsey went on to insist that his company only polices behavior on the platform, not content.
Dorsey's remarks follow criticism from the right over supposed "shadow-banning" of conservatives users. The platform and Dorsey have also faced questions over the decision not to remove far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the platform, despite other social media platforms choosing to do so.
The Twitter CEO said in an interview with The Hill this week that Jones was banned after he received complaints that Jones's content was inciting violence.
We were getting a number of reports around the tweet and the Periscope that the content was inciting violence, which is against our terms of service, and we took action, Dorsey said.
The InfoWars host received a week-long ban from the platform, but has been removed from other services including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Dorsey is expected to testify next month before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the issue of Russian election interference, and faces a possible subpoena from the House Energy and Commerce Committee over allegations of discrimination against conservatives on the platform.
We were getting a number of reports
I think Dorsey is hearing from shareholders and fighting for his job.
Which gives me an idea. Stop using all of these services and I mean hard. Tell everybody repeatedly to do this(like I do with cutting cable tv). Put together a mutual fund that invests in just these MFing censors then hold sway over their policies. Keep it front and center.
So we’ve got Fox News,talk radio and the NY Post...the Maoists own *everything* else!
LOL!
Yes, I note the heavy sarcasm. I am all for free markets, but clearly that ship has sailed regarding Facebook and Google (with their YouTube subsidiary), that are just too entrenched with their large user base. I am no fan of Government interference - but Facebook, Google, Twitter are crying out for Anti-Monopoly litigation.
I would like to hear one LEFTY who has been banned.
Look at the left hand not at the right.
Everything after that is illusion/misdirection...IMO
If liar Dorsey is actually interesting in policing hateful content, why doesn’t he start with “Minister” Farakkan’s twitter feed which has the following pinned tweet:
“Thoroughly and completely unmasking the Satanic Jew and the Synagogue of Satan.
Full Video: https://youtu.be/OTGBgIeaStc “
https://twitter.com/LouisFarrakhan
Twitter has a liberal bias? Who knew?
the RINOS SOP is to cower under their desks. They do not like sticking their necks out because they only care about feathering their nests.
I agree - the RINOs are just Democrats who run as Republicans in Conservative districts.
Well, they all lie that they are objective.
Kind of like antifa saying they are peaceful while they are beating someone with a stick.
Problem for us is conservatives are more individualists. We don’t get our feelers hurt and run out and mass spam complaints aimed at getting opposing content removed.
Hate to say it but sometimes I wish we would.
Now that is where most of the problems lie. In this upside down America where right is wrong and left is right, these assholes could not even come close to defining "lawful" in their twisted minds.
This is about that very subject.
I like the “left-leaning”. Yeah, “leaning”.
The liberals never stop lying. They never stop lying.
Remember, getting out of denial is one of the first stages of recovery.
REVOKE TWITTER PATENTS
Pull all Twitter software Patents.
Twitter is the Enemy of the People
and cannot own Patents.
Should be soon if they keep doing what they're doing. They just shut down my account. Didn't like that I countered a liberal fascist who thought attacking conservatives was OK, with the point that I thought we should shoot illegals at the border. Apparently, they don't like protecting ones' country. Bunch of SOBs.
I think I'll play the multiple name game with them.
twitter will go the way of myspace one day. let them get rid of all non leftwing snowflakes and it can remain one big circle jerk. they have no real power.
as far as youtube, well they’re dumb as hell because they have a paid for subsription streaming service call youtube red.
NOBODY CONSERVATIVE SHOULD EVEN THINK ABOUT BUYING INTO THIS. SAME WITH SPOTIFY.
Screw them.
I hope that one of the congressional committees asks him to “prove” that anything Alex Jones has said had (in a documented manner), incited violence.
I don’t follow Jones and won’t. Think he’s more wacko than truth-seeker but after looking at some of the Twits on Twitter that leftists have written, I’m sure that hundreds of them would be banned from it under Dorsey’s own rules if he was honest enough to follow them.
But then he’s “limousine Marxist” so honesty is not his strong point.
Free Speech or even paid for speak is under attack by the Marxist/liberal/progressive/socialist/Democrat Left (all the same when you look at what they say and do) and like Pastor Niemoller said many decades ago, when they came for me, there was nobody left to help me.
The new fascism of the Left is “RED FASCISM”, an amalgamation of Hitler’s “Big Lie” and Lenin/Stalin’s “Iron Fist”.
Never call them liberal again. Play the “Alinsky Game”. Target them, study them, label them, ridicule them, never let them have a minute’s peace.
Two can play this game and it’s about time that we got into the ball game with oversized verbal bats and in-depth knowledge, seasoned by a stinging, cutting, and really penetrating sense of humor.
Just call us “The Good Humor People of Freedom” and stick it to the bastards.
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