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Andrew Dalton
Andrew Dalton
2 years ago

I think the real bad news for free speech is that Jack Dorsey is a defender of free speech.
I used to fear for free speech, now I just pity it.

Galeti Tavas
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
Reply to  Andrew Dalton

The 4 horsemen, Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates.

$10,000,000 to Ibram X? Pretty much to out to wreck the west and cause division and wreck the education system then.

Zuckerberg ‘Donated’ $419,000,000 to buy Biden his stolen place.

Gates spends hundreds of Millions to get the Pharma/Medical Industries he owns all the Lobbyists needed to make him more multi billions wile making the world creepier every day.

Look into Bezos’s eyes – there is nothing human there…. a very frighting thing – my guess is the 4 all went to some Mississippi Delta Crossroads at midnght and did a Robert Johnson deal.

Andrew Dalton
Andrew Dalton
2 years ago
Reply to  Galeti Tavas

I dunno. If I was a crossroads devil, I’d run a mile rather than doing a deal with one of them four.

Art C
Art C
2 years ago

Free speech indeed! Dorsey is in fact a total misfit period! All he ever wanted to do was make a fast buck. He proved to be hopelessly out of his depth when decisions (and courage) were needed in the key areas of publishing, censorship and liberty. With his limited intellect he was easily influenced (his mega-donation to the neo-fascist Kendi proves that) and he has spent the last few years kowtowing to the little commissars who run the Democratic Party & control Big Tech. Dorsey’s legacy is a digital sewer where public discourse has been brought to a new low and shadow-banning and arbitrary censorship are commonplace. An entire generation has spent a large part of their lives marinading in this excrement. If any single entity can be held directly responsible for the polarisation we have today it is Twitter.
By the way, an “alternative platform” is no longer possible. Parler proved that. The big boys are here to stay. Welcome to digital tyranny: you can have any colour as long as it’s black!

Norman Powers
Norman Powers
2 years ago

Realistically you probably can’t run anything defending free speech in San Francisco now, at least not if you plan to hire lots and lots of employees and pay them with ad money, as tech firms usually end up doing.
We’ll see how Substack evolves. They’re doing well at the moment and don’t depend on ad revenues. But they’re based in San Francisco too, so have to recruit from an employee base so left wing the city has decriminalized theft.

Art C
Art C
2 years ago
Reply to  Norman Powers

SubStack are also hosted (at least partially) on Amazon Web Services. That’s just one flick of a switch away from cancellation!.

Douglas Proudfoot
Douglas Proudfoot
2 years ago

A government spokesperson announced today that the Ministry of Truth has been reorganized and privatized.  It’s now known as CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Google, Twitter and Facebook.  Even the woke agree that censorship is more efficiently performed by private companies.  Usually rieliable sources say that most WSJ news reporters and comment “monitoring team” members are former employees of the Ministry of Truth.

Censorship by Twitter, Facebook and Google isn’t any less offensive because it comes from private companies. It’s still censorship along party lines. Twitter cooperated with all other major news and social media to block the New York Post story of Hunter Biden’s laptop for 3 weeks, only relenting after the election was over. The censorship arguably changed the election outcome, covering up Biden family corruption.

The article argues that My Lord Dorsey was less bad than his successor will be. That ain’t saying much, since My Lord Dorsey, like My Lords Zuckerberg and Pichal, are really extremely awful. They view themselves as the arbiters of truth. Not for them is the saying, “Vox populi, vox Dei.” They all think they know better, and act on it every day.