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Jack Dorsey Leaves Bluesky Board, Calls X ‘Freedom Technology’
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:31 am
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:31 am
Do we need to get this guy a coat?
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Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. It suggested an apparent warming of relations between X’s owner and Dorsey, who had posted on Bluesky a year ago that “it all went south” after Musk’s takeover and radical transformation of Twitter.
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:33 am to blueboy
I give him credit for seemingly seeing the light. Can't be easy for someone with his influence and past success to basically admit he f'd up.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:36 am to SirWinston
He enjoyed the money and attention more than he admits. It caused him to make some poor decisions.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:36 am to blueboy
It is weird seeing how liberals have generally turned on Elon for only supporting free speech. Elon was their eco savior before but now they hate him for not censoring only speech they want. Maybe Dorsey has seen the light but I doubt it. Time will tell.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:38 am to blueboy
I believe he always held those beliefs, but was either powerless or unwilling to stand up against the government and powerful advertisers.
He did not have the money or cache' that Musk does.
He did not have the money or cache' that Musk does.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:53 am to Bjorn Cyborg
I agree with this, as well as some people fearing to be “the first.”
Some people just need someone to go first before they move.
With that being said, we shall see. These people have proven time and time again to be snakes.
Some people just need someone to go first before they move.
With that being said, we shall see. These people have proven time and time again to be snakes.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:54 am to Drizzt
It sure seems that Jack admires Elon for doing what he's done and Jack regrets not taking more of a stand himself, but that's literally just me reading between the lines of his cryptic tweets and wishcasting.
If there is a world in which libertarian tech titans are seeing the light and joining up to save western civ at the dawn of AI, it looks a lot like what we're seeing right now.
If there is a world in which libertarian tech titans are seeing the light and joining up to save western civ at the dawn of AI, it looks a lot like what we're seeing right now.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 11:55 am
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:12 pm to Drizzt
quote:
It is weird seeing how liberals have generally turned on Elon for
Is it though?
Remember when liberals loved Trump?
Always a fan if you walk the line. The second you stray the pit vipers will bounce on you. The left is sick.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:14 pm to blueboy
Jack is an idiot, a giant pussy or both.
He created a wildly popular site, made a frickton of money from it, then rolled over for others to take over what he had created. He's pissed and whined about how he had no real power, but if that was true it happened only because he allowed it to as CEO.
What influence he had to create any real change, he squandered it to focus on yoga meditations and chakra crystals while he let the (other) lunatics run the asylum. Now that Elon has turned it from a ziggurat of leftist conformist dogma into the more open bastion of free expression Jack originally envisioned (and that Jack doesn't have to take any arrows for), Jack is more than willing to ride that bandwagon (from behind safety walls, of course).
He created a wildly popular site, made a frickton of money from it, then rolled over for others to take over what he had created. He's pissed and whined about how he had no real power, but if that was true it happened only because he allowed it to as CEO.
What influence he had to create any real change, he squandered it to focus on yoga meditations and chakra crystals while he let the (other) lunatics run the asylum. Now that Elon has turned it from a ziggurat of leftist conformist dogma into the more open bastion of free expression Jack originally envisioned (and that Jack doesn't have to take any arrows for), Jack is more than willing to ride that bandwagon (from behind safety walls, of course).
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:29 pm to blueboy
Imagine being a young liberal tech guy that makes a start up social media company to post fun & goofy posts about yourself. Now fast forward 10 years, your company has grown tremendously. But you are powerless against an even more extreme liberal board AND you have the intelligence community deeply integrated in your company strong arming you and manipulating the public. At some point Dorsey realized this isn’t at all the reasons why he started a company.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:33 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:
He enjoyed the money and attention more than he admits. It caused him to make some poor decisions.
People truly don’t get how enticing it is to sell your soul to the establishment.
You get
>Puff pieces by historic publication
>Protected from business laws by the government
>Politicians kissing your arse and praising you
>Invited to all the elite parties
>Praised on morning talk shows
When you buck then you get treated as if you’re Hitler in training
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:35 pm to RaoulDuke504
quote:
People truly don’t get how enticing it is to sell your soul to the establishment.
You get
>Puff pieces by historic publication
>Protected from business laws by the government
>Politicians kissing your arse and praising you
>Invited to all the elite parties
>Praised on morning talk shows
Exactly. Being an establishment stooge means you have made it. They'll take care of you very well in the meantime.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:43 pm to Bard
quote:
He created a wildly popular site, made a frickton of money from it, then rolled over for others to take over what he had created. He's pissed and whined about how he had no real power, but if that was true it happened only because he allowed it to as CEO.
After reading everything about the govt intrusions into Twitter, and seeing the weaponization of the DOJ, I highly suspect Dorsey had no controls. I think he was very likely being blackmailed by the corrupt liberal DOJ operatives that they would sink his whole world if he exposed anything.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:48 pm to fwtex
quote:
After reading everything about the govt intrusions into Twitter, and seeing the weaponization of the DOJ, I highly suspect Dorsey had no controls. I think he was very likely being blackmailed by the corrupt liberal DOJ operatives that they would sink his whole world if he exposed anything.
No he’s just a coward who knew he was doing wrong and was scared to stand up and do the right thing
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:49 pm to blueboy
When he first showed a changing political position during and interview in Davos, I was skeptical. But since then he has continued to swing right, let's hope it continues.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:51 pm to SirWinston
quote:
I give him credit for seemingly seeing the light. Can't be easy for someone with his influence and past success to basically admit he f'd up.
Per the All In podcast, a lot of that was the board, which is why he got tired of it and left. They have implied he was not personally for the censorship at the level it was at.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:52 pm to pevetohead
quote:
Imagine being a young liberal tech guy that makes a start up social media company to post fun & goofy posts about yourself. Now fast forward 10 years, your company has grown tremendously. But you are powerless against an even more extreme liberal board AND you have the intelligence community deeply integrated in your company strong arming you and manipulating the public. At some point Dorsey realized this isn’t at all the reasons why he started a company.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:53 pm to blueboy
quote:jesus. thats what we are calling it now since elon lifted the rotted veil of censorship?
radical transformation of Twitter.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:58 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:That goes to show how important the 1st amendment is to freedom. The gov shouldn't be allowed to dictate to social media what and who can post on their sites.
but was either powerless or unwilling to stand up against the government
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:11 pm to SirWinston
quote:
I give him credit for seemingly seeing the light. Can't be easy for someone with his influence and past success to basically admit he f'd up.
He was always an enigma to me.
His mannerisms and what little hid did actually say about himself always made him seem as if he were far more centrist, yet the positions he took often seem to have been diametrically opposite of his perceived inherent philosophy.
Perhaps it was the money and social/peer pressure? He's definitely appearing to have a momentous shift towards aligning with the right side of history and would be a great ally, but time will tell how this all plays out. Certainly his admission to only be followed Elon, Snowden and the wife of Assange, will bring the full weight of the Establishment Uniparty upon him as he has never experienced. We'll see if that strengthens his resolve and he sees it as proof of his newfound belief, or if he folds under the pressure and rejoins the elite minority to avoid persecution.
My personal opinion is that Dorsey would tell them to F/O, but again I guess we'll see. It took Elon a while to break out of the grip of the Establishment and do his own thing, and I don't think there's many people who wouldn't admit Elon is highly intelligent. Nut up and follow suit, @Jack. It's not too late to help bring down the ideology and system you helped create.
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