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Erin Conroy Jul 3, 2023

You should stay away from #Bluesky, not actively help Jack Dorsey make his next billion & build his power as an owner of another social media empire.

Dorsey helped fund Musk's takeover to the tune of $1 billion, making him one of Musk's top backers (after Qatar).

He owns part of Twitter.

He & Musk planned Musk's takeover at Twitter. They are collaborators, not competitors.

https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110286207887749108

>Edit to add Dave Troy's piece https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

Erin Conroy (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Dorsey will be happy with one arm of #Bluesky being used by his advisor Ali Alexander to plan the next armed Proud Boys/GOP attack on the Capitol building - and the other arm being used by you to fruitlessly bemoan SCOTUS corruption & the New Jim Crow voting restrictions, & what he & Musk undoubtedly delight, behind closed doors, in referring to as "woke nonsense." The $ & power asymmetry makes this work for the GOP. No content moderation means no pesky Congressional hearings for him & Musk.

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Erin Conroy Jul 3, 2023

This long-term structural issue is prob most important: https://progressives.social/@chargrille/110647446788441301

Jack's "solution" to Nazis using SM to do mob violence against their targets is "algorithm choice" which is intentionally anti-social & favors proliferation & stochastic terrorism.

Mastodon's model "shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination" creating accountability. See https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

Jack re-invented a federating protocol to avoid ActivityPub. So #Bluesky could make a walled garden.

Erin Conroy (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images @[email protected] @[email protected] The other thing I've been trying to focus attention on, is that Jack's "solution" to abusers in social media - "algorithmic choice" - is intentionally anti-social & inherently biased towards increasing hate speech &stochastic terrorism. Mastodon's model "shifts moderation to the source, rather than the destination" creating accountability. See https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html And the reason Jack re-wrote an analog for ActivityPub protocol was so he could capture the audience.

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Erin Conroy

"As violence unfolded at the Capitol on Jan. 6, Jack Dorsey, who was then the chief executive of Twitter, overruled Trust and Safety’s recommendation that Mr. Trump’s account should be banned because of several tweets, including one that attacked Vice President Mike Pence. He was given a 12-hour timeout instead"

-Yoel Roth, former head of Trust & Safety at Twitter (including during the Jan 6 Republican coup)

#BlueSky is a Dorsey project & he owns (controlling?) shares

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=zlR7ggf54bEXHdoO1DGzI8KevoOo2rPOhsVKu3tjA10sn-dFdmoH9bE1wgh_tGblKiZ2nWXboIGYQbJNykEkZilEGiY56LgpmQikuYXBDdlVkYGsT9vMXim6zM-F8J9Uoj9Nu6rM0xKK6NSPScFsqtfuYOEA0y5GeiWUFOUpe-4t4d1I16IsVjQXD9FqGk2zepHqs_wMmzhXTma4TNJWb39D0_-pnUrV_FA1tUtJFXvbJ6PDctR17vg4tVxiTaNQlIEC9BYgqMqXye0gr0c3z4WJkM2qF3C_PovhMf9yaadOzL337mgietDK17ebFO97NwxWzHcnTFULMxLYLUrkgZ4

Opinion | I Was Attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I Believe It Was a Strategy To Change What You See Online.

Yoel Roth argues that his experiences being attacked by Trump and Musk were part of a greater strategy — one that is changing what all of us see online.

The New York Times