Jack Dorsey is furious that #Bluesky has attracted "very very common" people. He also doesn't like the idea of moderation tools facilitating the banning of racists.
All these tech billionaires are like a version of the movie Big, in which a pre-adolescent boy wakes up in the body of an aging Howard Hughes. Or Colonel Kurtz. Or a sardine.
#JackDorsey
This 2022 manifesto by #JackDorsey is instructive:
"a native internet protocol for social media ~ Jack Dorsey
December 14, 2022 ~ ABN"
"There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.
I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe ... based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:
1) Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2) Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3) Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice."
"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.
This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets)."
Here: https://americanbuddhist.net/2022/12/14/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-jack-dorsey/
@FinchHaven @Richard_Littler @thisismissem
"Twitter, under the leadership of then chief executive Jack Dorsey, willfully ignored or had knowledge of the Saudi government’s campaign to ferret out critics but – because of financial considerations and efforts to keep close ties to the Saudi government, a top investor in the company – provided assistance to the kingdom."
Oh yeah, it was definitely advertising budgets that were the problem.
Richard Littler
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