Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund a year ago after the sale of a bastardized heavily-censored Twitter (which degenerated to that sorry state under Dorsey himself) to Elon Musk, who promptly revealed the censorship, removed it along with thousands of obviously superfluous employees, and renamed it “X.”
Vlad Savov for Bloomberg News:
The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. It suggested an apparent warming of relations between X’s owner and Dorsey…
don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.
defend them yourself using freedom technology.(you’re on one)
— jack (@jack) May 4, 2024
Bluesky is a network and protocol launched to pursue Dorsey’s platonic ideal for Twitter as a service without central control…
Dorsey responded to a question on X as to whether he was still on the Bluesky board with a “no.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
Under whose watch did Twitter degenerate into a festival of censorship, working hand-in-hand with government & NGOs to thwart freedom of speech clearly favoring one side of the political spectrum? Oh right, that disaster happened under Jack Dorsey's watch. https://t.co/FsGua0gaW7
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I miss the old days on Twitter when I felt like I had a guardian. I kind of wish Nina Jankowicz would join the ranks as their Disinformation Governance Board Chairman, so I could know what I’m reading is for my own good. Complete free speech is scary.
I voted your comment up hoping it was /s. Please tell me it is????
I was going to finish with, “Complete free speech is scary and I wish Nina was here to hold me.” I like to call her Nanny, btw.
People can’t be trusted with total free speech without some guardrails. Twitter/Bluesky have ruined society not helped it in any fashion.
Thanks Nazi. Please tell us more about what you think is for our own good so we can see more how nazi’s nazi.
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Superlative news!
Hope for the world when a far left executive sees the light and supports three people who are pioneers and freedom fighters for truth and not necessarily from the woke leftist spectrum of politics degrading our institutions.
Certainly, we need more…
Is Jack Dorsey seeing the light or just going into CYA mode to cover his heinous unconstitutional crimes when he ran Twitter?
Yes, Twitter under Jack Dorsey leadership with laser precision targeted CENSORSHIP against conservatives, Republicans, Independents and others. But unfortunately, because of Act 230 protections, he was not prosecuted.
Communications Decency Act of 1996
Section 230 is a section of Title 47 of the United States Code that was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and generally provides IMMUNITY for online computer services [Dorsey’s Twitter] with respect to third-party content generated by its users.
However, with Republican leadership in both houses of Congress and the White House, fingers crossed, that MAY CHANGE…