Jack Dorsey Releases Statement/Reaction To Twitter Files Revelations
Jack Dorsey has written a response to all of the information we’ve learned through Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files. You can find the entire response right here. But here are a couple big takeaways:
- Jack believes that Twitter and other platforms MUST be “resilient to corporate and government control.”
- Jack thinks that the only way content should be removed is by the content AUTHOR, and that the best way to approach content moderation is through “algorithmic CHOICE” which is specifically choice of the USER.
Now, if you’re asking yourself, “Well, if that’s how he feels then WTF has been happening all this time?” I certainly don’t blame you. And he openly admits that what he believes is NOT what’s been practiced. He wrote, “The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves.”
So essentially, he’s taking the blame. But he’s also saying that Twitter policies were right for the “company business at the time” but that they were the “wrong thing for the internet and society.”
He also seems to think there was “no ill intent or hidden agendas” which I would STRONGLY disagree with just based on the history of Yoel Roth’s tweets alone. That guy is an agenda driven NIGHTMARE. But Jack is spot on when he writes this:
“Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.”
Jack wants attacks on his former colleagues to stop:
“The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof. “
You can read his full statement at the link above, along with his “where do we go from here” recommendations.Â
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3 Comments
Exactly right RandomImpulse. I seriously doubt Jack Doresy will be held accountable. It’s horrible what Twitter did in 2020-2021. And I’m glad Elon Musk is cleaning it up.
Jack’s only crime was inaction and I think that was more cause he found himself thrust into a CEO role for a very powerful company and just didn’t have the personality to do that job. My concern is the people under him such as Yoel, Vijaya and his successor who were very clearly ideologically driven and fully had an anti Republican/Trump agenda. They were more than willing to figuratively cut out the tongue of those they disagreed with which should not be permitted on what amounts to a communications platform.
Sorry but without a threat of repercussions then there is nothing to dissuade them or people like them from repeating this or something similar. If anything these people have proven that fear is a powerful motivator as they had half the conversation walking on eggshells not knowing if what they said would cause them to be removed from the platform entirely.