Twitter CEO Jack Finally Weighs In to Justify Booting Trump, It Doesn't End Well

Looks like Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is getting that Americans are not happy with his actions.

Twitter booted President Donald Trump, booted many conservative accounts and that virtually every right-leaning account has lost a big chunk of followers decreasing the ability to reach people.

In response, many people fled Twitter to other places like Parler. That caused Twitter’s stock to take a huge dive into the toilet.

Then Big Tech tried to shut down Parler, Twitter’s competition, and almost destroyed them in two days.

All showing the scary power of Big Tech and the power that they wield even over the leader of the free world, more power even than any state. It woke people up and precipitated calls to against the censorship.

So now Jack after several days is now trying to justify his actions and explain himself. Sounds like he may have gotten a command from his board to clean up the mess.

I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

I believe this was the right decision for Twitter. We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on public safety. Offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and what drives our policy and enforcement above all.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us. They limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning. And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

It certainly sets a dangerous precedent. That’s true. But it didn’t stop Jack from inserting himself and stepping over the line of just being a forum. He’s become a publisher when he’s picking speech to approve and choosing sides.

The check and accountability on this power has always been the fact that a service like Twitter is one small part of the larger public conversation happening across the internet. If folks do not agree with our rules and enforcement, they can simply go to another internet service.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

See, that’s the problem, no, they can’t. They tried that, and Jack’s Big Tech buddies then destroyed that place. Parler is now suing in an antitrust action and they’re alleging collusion. Who can blame them? Because it surely looks like that.

This concept was challenged last week when a number of foundational internet tool providers also decided not to host what they found dangerous. I do not believe this was coordinated. More likely: companies came to their own conclusions or were emboldened by the actions of others.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

Sorry, don’t believe you.

This moment in time might call for this dynamic, but over the long term it will be destructive to the noble purpose and ideals of the open internet. A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

It’s not really very different when it’s become almost a monopoly or if there is indeed collusion between all the subsets of Big Tech to shut someone down.

Yes, we all need to look critically at inconsistencies of our policy and enforcement. Yes, we need to look at how our service might incentivize distraction and harm. Yes, we need more transparency in our moderation operations. All this can’t erode a free and open global internet.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

Great. But you’re still inconsistent and you still took out the president of the United States. Even the European leaders and the president of Mexico called you out for that. What’s your explanation for the continued discrimination against folks on the right? If some were booted for “belief in conspiracy” that’s problematic because you’d have to boot 2/3 of the left that have pushed all kinds of conspiracy theories against Trump for four years.

He then oddly pitched Bitcoin. Huh?

The reason I have so much passion for #Bitcoin is largely because of the model it demonstrates: a foundational internet technology that is not controlled or influenced by any single individual or entity. This is what the internet wants to be, and over time, more of it will be.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

This will take time to build. We are in the process of interviewing and hiring folks, looking at both starting a standard from scratch or contributing to something that already exists. No matter the ultimate direction, we will do this work completely through public transparency.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

Thinking not only is it hitting them in the pocketbook, but they know all this has amplified the calls to break up Big Tech and repeal their protections.

I believe the internet and global public conversation is our best and most relevant method of achieving this. I also recognize it does not feel that way today. Everything we learn in this moment will better our effort, and push us to be what we are: one humanity working together.

— jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

Doesn’t that all sound nice? Jack just wants unity and to help the world. I almost might believe it.

Except for the fact that they completely outed themselves when they blocked the Biden scandal story in October and suspended the NY Post, who’s only TOS violation was reporting news they didn’t like. This is pretty much a load of horse hockey.

Others also had a few things to say about Jack’s sanctimonious drivel.

Jack Dorsey lied under oath to Congress about an image of my wife having a gun pointed at her that stayed up on their service for more than a day. https://t.co/7XRH09DETp

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) January 14, 2021

Ben Domenech is married to Meghan McCain.

Jack Dorsey lied under oath about users being able to share a URL that his website had still banned https://t.co/JmJpGmDtwT

— Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) January 14, 2021

Abigail Marone is referencing when Jack claimed the ban on the url for the NY Post story on the Biden scandal had been lifted when in fact it hadn’t been.

Some minced no words.