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
— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) May 8, 2024
Elon Musk’s Take:
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