Posted on 04/07/2022 9:00:35 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has admitted he regrets his involvement in creating a centralised internet.
"The days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing," he said in a tweet on Sunday.
"Centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it."
As Affirm CEO and co-founder Max Levchin points out in replying to Dorsey's tweet, the internet "changed from arthouse to blockbuster because it needed to gain an audience and make money".
Dorsey continued saying that "perhaps greater emphasis on protocol first and then interface would have helped".
"I agree there was less technology options around making money tho. It led to advertising dominating," he said.
However, this is not the first time Dorsey has lamented over the current state of the internet. At the end of last year, he dropped a single tweet that said: "You don't own 'web3.' The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It's ultimately a centralized entity with a different label."
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Dorsey currently owns about 2% of Twitter stock; Elon Musk owns about 9.4%. I don’t think the interim CEO should be planning any remodel of the CEO’s office.
I don’t think the interim CEO will be around much longer.
Yeah.... He did it, became a billionaire, helped steal an election and now he “regrets” something?
Get bent and burn in hell, Dorsey.
If you want to be seen as a populist rebel now, Dorsey, fork over your ill gotten gains first.
Gotta admit Dorsey is a lot more clever than Mark Zuckerberg.
Its interesting how only 20 years ago, the notion of the internet was introduced to the world by silicon valley as “free information, open exchange of ideas, vast information at your fingertips, no censorship, etc...”
In many ways - the reality of the built-out internet is quite the opposite. Just look at China for a very good example of the internet as used for extreme totalitarian control and propaganda purposes - parts of which all governments are doing to some degree.
Execution.
“If you want to be seen as a populist rebel now, Dorsey”
....disclose Deep State ties to Twitter—which turned it into a de facto .gov censorship and intimidation subsidiary.
Save it for the Tribunal, you coup-enabling commie hippie. Hopefully there will be a free helicopter ride for you afterwards.
Yup—I used to be a Big Tech fanboy.
They became evil—and I became a Luddite.
Dorsey always looks like he has slobber and bits of food in his beard.
Because of the evil things of which he has approved, he would regret FAR more than what he does now should I be given the authority to show him what regret really is.
Dorsey regrets his actions, as he cries into his huge pile of money. Same as Will Smith.
dear jack,
retrieve a fancy steak knife from the drawer where it lies, and go trip on your bare floor!
i remember doing searches on alta vista and finding regular, personal websites now i do a search and it is all corporate.
Web3 is coming.
The trick I use these days is I do a two part search.
First I search what I am looking for—and get lots of corporate media sites.
They use the same propaganda words over and over in their articles.
I then do the same search adding the minus in front of each of the key words repeated over and over in the propaganda.
This gets a lot of interesting and informative results.
I would not be surprised to hear one day that Dorsey has burned to death after falling asleep while smoking massive amounts of weed and setting himself on fire.
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