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November 29, 2021, 02:46 PM
CoolRich59
He is an odd one.
Maybe he’s leaving so he can more time exploring his essence with white quartz crystals.
_____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell
November 29, 2021, 02:56 PM
Ripley
Screen shot of Crowder discussing Parag Agrawal, Dorsey's replacement, tweet from 2010 --
Listening to Crowder this morning and this guy (new CEO) may be crazier and more radical that the bearded nutcase now.
November 29, 2021, 03:08 PM
PASig
[sarc on]Let's hope the new CEO can do as good a job of censoring and shadow banning us conservatives as the old one did...[/sarc off]
November 29, 2021, 03:09 PM
Jimbo Jones
From his wikipedia page
"Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation … focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."
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Originally posted by smschulz: Listening to Crowder this morning and this guy (new CEO) may be crazier and more radical that the bearded nutcase now.
--------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves.
November 29, 2021, 05:34 PM
sdy
A common theme now. Continually growing in volume and scope.
BLM, CRT, antifa, Twitter, universities, major corporations, the Democrat Party - white people are racists.
These are dangerous times.
November 29, 2021, 06:35 PM
Graniteguy
And the same tools will continue to use Twitter despite this.
And if all white people are racists - why are there so many of them working in Washington?
November 30, 2021, 08:43 AM
BamaJeepster
In case you are wondering "What does this mean?"
It means Twitter, by policy, will now selectively censor videos - this is being done to prevent people from posting videos of rioters, looters and other criminals who could be identified by law enforcement.
BLM and ANTIFA go to great lengths to hide their identity. This policy is being enacted specifically to shut down people like Andy Ngo who expose them.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
November 30, 2021, 09:00 AM
Rick Lee
I just can't get excited about this. Never been on Twitter and I've never heard a friend say I ought to sign up. Never used Square. Twitter can do whatever they want. They're not the gov't. They don't owe anyone anything other than a good return to their shareholders. I really wish they had no non-publisher protections, but that's due to Congress's spinelessness. I don't think anything that happens with Twitter will affect my life in any way.
November 30, 2021, 09:12 AM
bigwagon
I was an enthusiastic user of Twitter for many years, but I deleted my account after they banned Trump, not necessarily because I needed to read his tweets every day, but because I wouldn't support a company with so much inherent bias and lack of commitment to the free flow of ideas. If Twitter disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't notice or care.
November 30, 2021, 09:23 AM
Il Cattivo
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Originally posted by Rick Lee: I just can't get excited about this. Never been on Twitter and I've never heard a friend say I ought to sign up...I don't think anything that happens with Twitter will affect my life in any way.
It ain't about you, and it ain't about the people on the other side. It's about the ones in the middle.
November 30, 2021, 09:24 AM
ensigmatic
I deleted my Twitter account long before they banned President Trump. I saw the direction it was clearly headed. I refused to be a party to it.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
November 30, 2021, 10:09 AM
PASig
I never joined and never will, and you know why?
Twitter seems to be the FASTEST way to get yourself fired these days. People with 30 and 40 year careers are finding themselves out of a job after posting ONE unapproved or incorrect tweet. Hell, even RE-TWEETING something that someone else said that is not politically approved will get you the boot from your job.
NOPE
November 30, 2021, 10:13 AM
BBMW
Maybe he's ditching he money losing waste of time startup (Twitter), for the one that actually makes money (Square.) He's probably better off now.
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Originally posted by CoolRich59: He is an odd one.
Maybe he’s leaving so he can more time exploring his essence with white quartz crystals.
November 30, 2021, 10:40 AM
corsair
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Originally posted by BBMW: Maybe he's ditching he money losing waste of time startup (Twitter), for the one that actually makes money (Square.) He's probably better off now.
Dorsey knows, in the not too distant future, the heat on social media will be so great that the .gov will move to have each company either broken up (like Ma'Bell) or, the landscape will become highly regulated.
He's got more money than he knows what to do with it, I've heard his participation at board meetings (to include his chair at Disney) over the last several years has been nominal; leaving now he can put distance in his involvement when the investigations comes. Meanwhile, like other crazy wealthy people, he's got other irons in the fire...
November 30, 2021, 10:54 AM
bigdeal
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Originally posted by BBMW: Maybe he's ditching he money losing waste of time startup (Twitter), for the one that actually makes money (Square.) He's probably better off now.
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Originally posted by CoolRich59: He is an odd one.
Maybe he’s leaving so he can more time exploring his essence with white quartz crystals.
Uh, have you looked at Squares financials lately? I don't think he's doing much there either.
Let's not forget it was only a year or so ago that Twitter's board tried to force Dorsey out. And Wall Street has made it abundantly clear they like Twitter without Dorsey a whole lot more than with him. As Crowder noted, nothing is going to change there. If anything, it may even get worse.
----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter
November 30, 2021, 11:10 AM
sigcrazy7
If I were ever in the position to found something and be fast rich, Steve Wozniak would be my model. Get enough money and get out to pursue life. Trump once said that anything you make past $30M is just ego. I agree, and would use that money to buy my freedom to do whatever I want. Perhaps this Dorsey douche is doing the same.
Wozniak is worth somewhere around $100M, while Jobs was worth $10B when he died. I'd bet that Wozniak lived a more fulfilling life than Jobs, at least by my standards of happiness and freedom.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus
November 30, 2021, 12:27 PM
PASig
What the hell? This woke new "The First Amendment doesn't apply to us" CEO is already making big changes. How would they even enforce this? Well we know how they will; by enforcing it for conservatives and allowing leftists to do whatever the hell they want as usual:
From a Twitter thread:
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Hahahahaha how the fuck can this even be enforced? Memes that feature people or any image you take that has people in the background could be taken down.
This is like 90% of images and videos that get posted on twitter.
Disclose.tv @disclosetv · 4h JUST IN - Twitter bans sharing images or videos of private individuals without their consent, just one day after former CTO Parag Agrawal was named CEO.
They're vastly better than Twitter. A basic stock quote is showing $1 EPS for share vs a loss of Twitter. Looking in more detail, the last full quarter was bad. Before that was okay.
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Originally posted by bigdeal:
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Originally posted by BBMW: Maybe he's ditching he money losing waste of time startup (Twitter), for the one that actually makes money (Square.) He's probably better off now.
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Originally posted by CoolRich59: He is an odd one.
Maybe he’s leaving so he can more time exploring his essence with white quartz crystals.
Uh, have you looked at Squares financials lately? I don't think he's doing much there either.
Let's not forget it was only a year or so ago that Twitter's board tried to force Dorsey out. And Wall Street has made it abundantly clear they like Twitter without Dorsey a whole lot more than with him. As Crowder noted, nothing is going to change there. If anything, it may even get worse.