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
I feel required to point out that "human history led to government" is deterministic. Sure, if you look back from present western world, you can see how government came to be. What you don't see is the points where a different choice could be made.
Tribal people such as the Sentinelese are just as much the end result of human history as the the famous Chinese bureaucracy.
That we appreciate government and not subsistence economy doesn't tell anything good about us.
@Richard_Littler along these lines discussing already 20 years ago the cultural differences regarding privacy wrt to dignity and liberty
@Richard_Littler I'm starting to doubt my own reading comprehension. Did he really complain that BlueSky had too many plebs and not enough racists?
I presume he still owns a lot of shares in BlueSky, because that comes across as a pretty strong endorsement.
@rsynnott @Richard_Littler No no Jack, its pronounced *Bouquet*. Yes, I know its spelled *Bucket*. Its French.
This is like the third Keeping Up Appearances reference I've seen in a week, *what is happening?*
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"Common people" demanding content moderation.
Now if that's not a techbro billionaire complaint, I don't know what is
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/
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"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.
Jack Dawsey needs to read more history or even read within his field, even systems engineers understand the concept of "check & balances".
There is no social media platform not being misused to promote anti-democracy public sentiment.
The fact that fascists followed Dawsey from Twitter to Bluesky is the least surprising thing about this statement.
The fact that Dawsey wants apathy, silence, and inaction in the face of this malign influence campaign is also unsurprising.
Jack Dorsey is a Nazi. 100% Nazi.
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Fuck Jack Dorsey.
Not literally.
@Richard_Littler They are not yet repeating the same mistakes. They are (possibly) trying to attract back all the people who fecked off when Xitter went to the dark side. *Then* they'll enshittify it back to where it was and those people will leave again. Probably. I may be proved wrong.
And I'm intrigued about the sardines... Are sardines bad? They certainly taste good. On toast, with tomato, and some herbs, maybe.
I think he should have read what @nilaypatel said:
"The essential truth of every social network is that the product is content moderation"
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
I've been curious how BlueSky would turn out because Dorsey is a Nazi, but one of the first hires was Paul Frazee. I can't find the posts now, but I think Frazee talked a lot about content moderation in P2P social networks.
@Richard_Littler this is one of those things where I know I’m reading it out of context, but I also know for 99% certain that there’s no context that could possibly justify it.
But honestly I feel that’s mostly bc it’s 100% unjustifiable to call people “common”, I mean seriously? How can it go downhill from there? Oh saying “well we started banning white supremacists bc people asked for that and I think that’s where we went wrong last time” uhhhh
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