Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey offers a conflicted response to banning Trump and the “dangerous precedent” it created

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Didi Rankovic

Jan. 14 2021 2:52 pm

Dorsey pays lip service to Twitter's overreach but didn't correct anything.

After his company engaged in a highly controversial act of censorship by banning a US president, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is now talking about the virtues of the open internet and decentralized technology – and worrying that large tech companies might have too much power.

While still defending the unprecedented move to ban President Trump as “the right decision for Twitter” – Dorsey at the same time said he took no pride in the move and expressed his fear that it may set a dangerous precedent. Not to mention the obvious (though he did) – bans prevent conversations, while promoting them has been Twitter’s declarative goal as a platform.

He came up with these contradictory ideas in a series of tweets meant to address and justify Twitter’s role in the wave of censorship that the Silicon Valley engaged in after last week’s Capitol Hill unrest.

The deplatforming of the president was started by Twitter and followed by Facebook and Google, who banned him from YouTube. Dorsey wrote that he thinks they did this because they found Trump’s content to be dangerous, but that their actions are not coordinated.

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I can think of 51 Billion Why Jacky is concerned.

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