Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s ban of President Trump in a philosophical Twitter thread that’s his first public statement on the topic.
When Trump incited his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol final week, then continued to tweet potentially ominous messages, Dorsey mentioned the ensuing risk to public safety created an “extraordinary and untenable circumstance” for the company. Having already briefly suspended Trump’s account the day of the Capitol riot, Twitter on Friday banned Trump completely, then smacked down the president’s makes an attempt to tweet utilizing different accounts.
“I don’t rejoice or really feel satisfaction in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter,” Dorsey wrote. However he added: ”I imagine this was the precise resolution for Twitter.”
Dorsey acknowledged that reveals of energy just like the Trump ban may set harmful precedents, even calling them an indication of “failure.” Though not in so many phrases, Dorsey instructed that Twitter wants to seek out methods to keep away from having to make such selections in the first place. In Dorsey-speak, which means Twitter must work harder to “promote wholesome dialog.”
Excessive measures equivalent to banning Trump additionally spotlight the extraordinary power that Twitter and different Massive Tech companies can wield without accountability or recourse, Dorsey wrote.
Whereas Twitter was grappling with the issue of Trump, as an example, Apple, Google and Amazon have been successfully shutting down the right-wing web site Parler by denying it access to app shops and cloud-hosting companies. The businesses charged that Parler wasn’t aggressive sufficient about removing calls to violence, which Parler has denied.
