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Texas Hodlem 2 years ago
It is not an impossible problem. You don’t cave to demands of censorship. To do anything else is just shitting on the first amendment. Thats what those assholes did. Jack could have done exactly what Elon is doing. Give the middle finger to CEO’s that want to virtue signal and bend a knee to those demanding others be censored. To the extent nobody was breaking the law by actually calling for violence, not just hurting a few feelings, this is not hard. Jack and his assembled team took a totally partisan approach to censorship. That isn’t even debatable. To say it’s an impossible problem lacks courage. You’re saying it’s impossible to give voice to opposing viewpoints. If the left wants to leave X because they can’t exist without that censorship, that’s fine. They can got to Daddy Zuck to make them feel safe in their delusional world.

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Jack didn’t have the wealth to simply buy all of the twitter shares, nor cover all the cost of running the service when advertisers abandoned the platform because they didn’t want their ads running next to controversial content. If he’d banned Trump earlier he would been ousted by a shareholder revolt, if he didn’t ban Trump after January 6th, then the advertisers would have pulled back and caused the company to lose money, which would also have lead shareholders to ousting the board and Jack as CEO. This has nothing to do with courage or ideological purity. Twitter’s a business with constraints as a publicly traded company with an advertising business model. What he did do was fund alternatives which wouldn’t have this problem, first Bluesky with twitter funds, and then Nostr with his personal funds.