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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defends Trump ban, but admits company's power sets 'dangerous' precedent
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Posted on 01/13/2021 5:43:48 PM PST by janetjanet998

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey spoke out Wednesday about his company's decision last week to ban President Trump from its platform. "I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump, or how we got here," Dorsey began a lengthy Twitter thread. "After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct? TWITTER CALLS FOR 'OPEN INTERNET,' 'ACCESS TO INFORMATION' DURING ELECTION... IN UGANDA "I believe this was the right decision for Twitter," Dorsey continued. "We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on public safety. Offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and what drives our policy and enforcement above all. "That said, having to ban an account has real and significant ramifications. While there are clear and obvious exceptions, I feel a ban is a failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation. And a time for us to reflect on our operations and the environment around us," the CEO went on.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; jackdorsey; trump; twitter
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To: janetjanet998

This homeless looking creep is the CEO of Twatter? He looks like he wouldn't even know how to open a can of soup.

21 posted on 01/13/2021 5:59:52 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: janetjanet998

Can one of you clever Freepers please post photos of Jack Dorsey and Rasputin side-by-side?


22 posted on 01/13/2021 6:00:46 PM PST by ryderann
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To: janetjanet998

I no like him..


23 posted on 01/13/2021 6:00:56 PM PST by glimmerman70
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To: janetjanet998

24 posted on 01/13/2021 6:04:08 PM PST by Bobalu (When I die I want to be buried in Chicago so I can stay active in politics)
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To: janetjanet998

Twitter deserves a fate worse than the one Fox News is experiencing.


25 posted on 01/13/2021 6:10:17 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Secret Agent Man
Guess how many times they will ever ban or suspend any democrat.

Forget that. Twitter has even suspended tyrants like Nicholas Maduro. Trump to this imbecile is worse than Maduro.

26 posted on 01/13/2021 6:12:18 PM PST by Kazan
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To: janetjanet998

Probably should be scared for his life.


27 posted on 01/13/2021 6:12:55 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: janetjanet998

His stock and net worth has taken a beating.


28 posted on 01/13/2021 6:16:37 PM PST by libh8er
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To: janetjanet998
We are in a tough situation in regard to the censorship of speech in this country, even if we could shoot a ray of "reasonableness" at the insane politicians...it is difficult to know what a good policy would be.

Here are the basic facts as far as I see it.

A) We do not want to communication platforms to be responsible for speech on them.

B) It is very desirable for communication platforms to take precautions to stop things like child pornography and terrorist plots etc.

C) The edge of what is desirable to prohibit is subjective, and those that have the power to prohibit some kinds of things can abuse it to political ends and other nefarious purposes.

D) The trend to prohibit more than they should for bad purposes grows and grows the more used to prohibiting the platform gets and the more comfortable they are going from just bias maybe not on purpose. To bias where they should know better but are not honest with themselves, to institutional extreme bias and now even propaganda.

E) Platforms like twitter that are so monopolistic in their space have way too much power, and abuse it way too much such that it is morally and practically imperative it be stopped.

F) Having the government control what gets prohibited itself may be no better. It may be worse.

So it is a pretty terrible place we are in. The only way out I see is that if we do not have monopolies. A monopoly on communication whether by a small number of companies or by a government agency is just asking for a propagandized public.

We absolutely seem to need a combined public space where platforms are combined in an ecosystem controlled by a wide range of people with different views...or we are screwed.

29 posted on 01/13/2021 6:16:51 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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30 posted on 01/13/2021 6:17:55 PM PST by libh8er
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To: isthisnickcool

Your late. It’s going down. Good riddance


31 posted on 01/13/2021 6:19:52 PM PST by wgmalabama (I will post less and thinking more from here on out. If this is Gods judgment, then so let it be. )
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To: janetjanet998

Twitter is a self-evidently childish waste of time, and it always has been. The people who run it lose their power to make you unhappy when you close your account and refuse to look at it again.


32 posted on 01/13/2021 6:20:21 PM PST by Iowa Slim
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To: janetjanet998
"I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump, or how we got here," Dorsey began

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE

33 posted on 01/13/2021 6:21:26 PM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: janetjanet998
I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump

I think he is lying. He definitely celebrates it.

34 posted on 01/13/2021 6:21:41 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: janetjanet998

Blah blah blah, contrived words, choke on a 9mm prik.


35 posted on 01/13/2021 6:29:36 PM PST by DAC21
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To: janetjanet998

Politicians in Europe are very upset. What i hear is that they are working on legislatures to reign on the oligarchs.
I heard that e.g. somebody could be banned from the internet only by court decision. Breaking up the oligarch. Etc. Etc.
First time it looks like maybe the the European politicians could save us from our neomaxist oligarchs.


36 posted on 01/13/2021 6:30:27 PM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: Mark17

I dropped Twitter but went to read the comments...spicy!


37 posted on 01/13/2021 6:30:45 PM PST by hercuroc
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To: janetjanet998

Twitter is done look for more countries to do what Uganda did and simply block their service before elections


38 posted on 01/13/2021 6:30:48 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: janetjanet998

So you all realize that what he is saying is they he is to be feared. He understands that it’s frightening to do what they did, while defending doing it. His message needs to be clearly under.

He is threatening all of us.


39 posted on 01/13/2021 6:31:30 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: libh8er

He answers to a board. The major shareholders all investment companies don’t like their investments going down.


40 posted on 01/13/2021 6:34:59 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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