Posted on 08/08/2019 8:27:36 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
“Jack is thinking about things at a different pace from the rest of us,” says Greg Kidd, who has known Jack Dorsey, now 42, since Dorsey was 19. “Jack’s pace is slower.”
It’s an odd thing to say about one of the only two men in history to have ever simultaneously run two multibillion-dollar companies that he cofounded. But Kidd, who was an angel investor in Dorsey’s first business, Twitter (TWTR), and one of the earliest advisers on the second, Square (SQ), means the remark as high praise.
“Jack’s at a slower pace where he’s noticing things that the rest of us don’t notice,” he explains. “That’s extremely valuable to society. It’s like a Forrest Gump thing.”
Dorsey’s pace of thinking has become an important issue both within his companies and outside of them. Some of those who have worked for him, for instance, complain about how hard it was to compete with companies run by faster moving, ruthlessly aggressive CEOs, like Facebook’s (FB) Mark Zuckerberg or Alphabet’s (GOOG, GOOGL) Larry Page.
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These days, the most urgent complaints about Dorsey’s pace of thinking come from outside his companies. They emanate from people who — especially since the 2016 presidential elections — fear that Twitter has become a threat to Western democracy and culture. It is coarsening and polarizing discourse, they contend, by failing to adequately patrol the platform to combat harassment, hate speech, “dehumanizing speech,” lies, manipulated videos, and political disinformation campaigns — foreign and domestic.
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Twitter has become a sewer.
The Head Twit....................
Praise to a scumbag
I agree that Twitter is a sewer to the extent that one reads the comments or the tweets of twits. However, as a bulletin board that allows for cutting out the gatekeepers (media, corporate, government, self-appointed judges of the quality of discourse...), it is genius and invaluable IMO. It has been a tremendous tool for Pres Trump. The danger, currently materializing, is that under the guise of cleaning it up, we will be left with a filtered and censored Twitter. Speech where someone else, particularly someone working for the government or big business, decides which speech is hateful, harassing, beyond the pale... is not free speech.
Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ
Streamed live on Mar 5, 2019
Jack Dorsey is a computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. Vijaya Gadde serves as the global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety at Twitter. Tim Pool is an independent journalist. His work can currently be found at http://timcast.com
My comment - wherein Tim Pool shows the Twitter leadership to be devious liars with an obvious Leftist political agenda through and through.
MORE free speech
We are a Republic.
Damn, these folks are very close to functionally illiterate.
That is until Twitter itself becomes a gatekeeper.
Doxing info please for this anus....
What a load of shiite puff piece PR on the idiotic “Yahoo”.
Dorsey’s twitter is going to be broken up— the cannot eliminate speech (not even the old newspaper editors could do that— they’d lose sales).
This is not “free” speech— it is HIS platform and he is abusing those on it. Frank, violent inducing comments are left online— by antiFA pals of this “slower thinking” “titan”. He’s going down... and very soon. There are other means.
The move against McConnell’s campaign twitter— because of a posting of violent protestors video which remains elsewhere on twitter.... with out removal there. Well. Beulah the Buzzer says “YO taahm is UP!”
Absolutely
There is GAB.
” The enigmatic CEO who could save — or break — Western democracy”
Don’t think for a second that this, likely keynsian, prog, transnationalist is going to do ANYTHING good for the republic (not a democracy....wish these tools would get that right).
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KYPD
Those scumbags lied so much to Congress that if they were to have lied to Chicoms,Norks or Soviets, their heads would be off or a bullet in them soon after the hearing. The REAL collusion was greatly due to the social media and tech scum who manipulated information and helped Clinton.
Pace? No. Bias? Yes.
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