Jack Dorsey has made a thread explaining his company’s decision to ban Trump from the platform. (In my last newsletter, I argued that Twitter should not have been able to ban Trump, a sentiment echoed by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.) Dorsey’s thread is – shall we say – disingenuous. He portrays himself as a principled libertarian believer in internet freedoms, who reluctantly banned a single account in the face of imminent and catastrophic violence. What follows are Dorsey’s tweets, followed by my comments.
Dorsey the disingenuous
Dorsey the disingenuous
Dorsey the disingenuous
Jack Dorsey has made a thread explaining his company’s decision to ban Trump from the platform. (In my last newsletter, I argued that Twitter should not have been able to ban Trump, a sentiment echoed by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.) Dorsey’s thread is – shall we say – disingenuous. He portrays himself as a principled libertarian believer in internet freedoms, who reluctantly banned a single account in the face of imminent and catastrophic violence. What follows are Dorsey’s tweets, followed by my comments.