Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO of Twitter, the social media site, and alarm bells are going off that his replacement will take the right wing-hating website farther into Orwellian territory.
Dorsey, an odd-ball billionaire who co-founded the site in 2006, announced Monday he was departing because the company was “ready to move on” from one of its founders and move forward under new leadership and fresh ideas.
Parag Agrawal, a board member and former chief technology officer, was announced as the new CEO of the social media giant effective immediately.
Just hours after Agrawal was announced as the new leader, however, Twitter alarmed already-wary critics by announcing it was banning “the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent.”
That new privacy rule was, first of all, viewed by many as a non-coincidence after Dorsey’s departure a day earlier. Secondly, right-leaning Twitter users concluded the new policy is an effort by the left-leaning corporation to censor non-progressive content.
Bret Weinstein, a podcaster with 602,000 followers on Twitter, wrote the “private media” policy was “beautifully constructed to allow Twitter to protect its friends and punish/hobble others with selective enforcement all while pretending to be impartial and interested in the ‘safety’ of the community.”
Human Events editor Jack Posobiec, who has 1.5 million Twitter followers, reacted to the announcement with an example of what he says the new policy means. “Under Twitter’s new ‘private media’ regulations,” he wrote, “we wouldn’t have been allowed to post screenshots of Darrel Brooks’ Facebook posts.”
Brooks is the SUV driver who allegedly plowed over and killed six Christmas parade participants last week. Authorities have not given a motive for his attack but Brooks stated in Facebook posts that white people deserved to get hurt for their racism.
Reacting to Dorsey’s departure, Bill D’Agostino of Media Research Center says Twitter’s role as an online platform for debate and discussion is symbolic of the culture we are living in.
“We’re sort of at a weird place in America right now, where both sides seem to agree that there’s a big problem with social media,” he observes. “Half of us would characterize it as there’s too much censorship and the other half seems to believe that the problem is there’s not enough.”
Regarding the sudden leadership of Agrawal as CEO, D’Agostino points out Twitter’s new top boss has dismissed the idea the social media site has a role to play defending free speech. In fact, he has said Twitter should play a far different role.
“Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment,” Agrawal told Technology Review in 2020, “but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation.”
According to Twitter’s track record, however, the left-wing version of “healthy” discussion is policing posts for criticism of the COVID-19 vaccine and punishing users who claim election fraud robbed Donald Trump of a second term.
“A lot of people on the Right seem to be under some absurd illusion that the next person wasn’t going to be awful,” D’Agostino warns, “but newsflash: There’s no shortage of awful liberals ready to lead America’s institutions off a cliff.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Politics is a blood sport. If you can’t take the heat or the sight of your own blood, just only your opponents, you have no business engaging in politics in any form and should stay at home in the closet with guys like Joe Biden who to this day has told so many lies, been told so many lies and distorted so many truths he actually believes he was honestly elected. You want to keep the Twits honest, then get someone or some media of the same stature to compete, where truth, even when ugly, rules over party-controlled propaganda. Had such a force arisen in Germany in the 1930s, Hitler would never have come to power, and Putin would be lost a notice somewhere in the obituaries. Today it’s “Lie to me once shame on you, lie to me twice or a hundred times, shame on me,” The problem is there is no place to go to speak totally freely for fear of offending some mindless minority. Given a choice people always gravitate toward the truth, even in the face of it exposing your own weaknesses. Absent truth only grows more weakness and eventually becomes your own undoing. Enter Twitter whose decline will only accelerate under the new guy whose unhealthy political correctness will prove fatal in the end.
That’s how it USED to be… I am not so sure that applies to today’s world.
Oh, joy….. well, there’s a reason why it’s called “TWIT-ter”…
“Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy conversation.” That quite says all one needs to know. Without the First Amendment there can be no healthy conversation because all points of view are not represented no matter how far afield they may sound. Without open discourse there is no conversation only a one-sided presentation of the ‘facts’ as one side sees them.
Especially since to leftists, ONLY THEIR View point is ever valid.. ALl others need to get shut down.