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Here is Jack Dorsey's commentary thread: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
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I don't agree with every call Twitter makes, but I find Dorsey to be by far the most interesting public figure in the social media game. His two JRE interviews[0][1] and his Tales from the Crypto interview[2] are all worth checking out, IMO. He seems to think Twitter should use a blockchain in the future, and that small social circles should have a system for internally moderating content without needing it to be oka…
So Toyota can buy ads to promote their gas burning cars, but I can't buy ads to encourage people to stop burning up the environment.
Only profit-seekers can buy mindshare.
This whole debate is absurd. Trump rose to the White House on $1B worth of unpaid media exposure by being an outrageous personality. How is that better for democracy than paid ads?
So given that there are bots they can't detect, should they just ban all political speech to prevent any bots from abusing their platform?
The vocal minority would never let this happen as they would take it as being silenced for their views.
This makes sense.. though I'm not sure it will do much in practice to improve political discourse. The combination of politicians having twitter accounts and twitter's content recommendation engine promoting politician's tweets make me think the perceived effect to the end user (twitter showing people messages from politicians or their supporters) will remain more or less the same. But because twitter isn't taking mo…
It will remove the direct influence on who the ad gets sent to at least, a tweet will spread organically to a much wider audience than a targeted ad so messages cannot be as micro-targeted.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So does that mean some group like the American Cancer Society can't advertise?
Sounds like the American Cancer Society can advocate for itself but not for candidates or policies. Fine: Donate to fight cancer Not fine: Donate to Candidate X to support cancer research
Here is Jack Dorsey's commentary thread: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952
If only there was a way to communicate more than a couple sentences at the time over the internet. Someone should make that!