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It is not an impossible problem. You don’t cave to demands of censorship. To do anything else is just shitting on the first amendment. Thats what those assholes did. Jack could have done exactly what Elon is doing. Give the middle finger to CEO’s that want to virtue signal and bend a knee to those demanding others be censored. To the extent nobody was breaking the law by actually calling for violence, not just hurting a few feelings, this is not hard. Jack and his assembled team took a totally partisan approach to censorship. That isn’t even debatable. To say it’s an impossible problem lacks courage. You’re saying it’s impossible to give voice to opposing viewpoints. If the left wants to leave X because they can’t exist without that censorship, that’s fine. They can got to Daddy Zuck to make them feel safe in their delusional world.

rabble 2y ago

Jack didn’t have the wealth to simply buy all of the twitter shares, nor cover all the cost of running the service when advertisers abandoned the platform because they didn’t want their ads running next to controversial content. If he’d banned Trump earlier he would been ousted by a shareholder revolt, if he didn’t ban Trump after January 6th, then the advertisers would have pulled back and caused the company to lose money, which would also have lead shareholders to ousting the board and Jack as CEO.

This has nothing to do with courage or ideological purity. Twitter’s a business with constraints as a publicly traded company with an advertising business model.

What he did do was fund alternatives which wouldn’t have this problem, first Bluesky with twitter funds, and then Nostr with his personal funds.

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Dawlat Moustafa 2y ago

Tricky when a person has to choose and is responsible for others. Twitter had lots of employees depending on the platform. The same advertisers have managed to affect governments’ decisions as a part of the “they”.

Texas Hodlem 2y ago

False, Twitter banning Trump was more cowardice. Yes they were a publicity traded company that chose to censor. You don’t know what would have happened if they hadn’t banned Trump. Maybe the best thing possible for the profitability of the business by having a large portion of the non essential overpaid employees quit. Maybe take on new larger sponsors that want to align with companies standing up for freedom of speech. But when the company was run with partisan ideology at the forefront, they couldn’t even fathom these things. Delusional.

It’s great he’s funding Nostr and the others. No argument there. But X can survive. I expect it will thrive and could have as a public company had they done the right thing.

The constitution exists to protect the people from tyrannical government. That tyranny was on full display during the 2020 election cycle. We now know that truth. Twitter was complicit all the way down.