Fence-Sitting Chicken, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, announced today that it has revamped its user agreement after intensive consultation with an experienced preschool teacher.
I’m sure that Mr. Jones, being the rational and benevolent person that he is, will take this time to re-think his world view and business plan and will emerge from this suspension calling for world peace and love between all peoples of the world.
Or some unhinged screed – you know, whichever!
Dorsey clearly thinks it’s better to retain the ad revenue that Jones drives rather than enforce Twitter’s terms of service.
The rules apply to everyone equally, unless there’s money at stake.
It’s more important to let advertisers reach Jones’ 890.7k followers than prevent a hate monger from inciting violence nationally. Echoes of Moonves…
Alas, the CEO of Twitter is a twit.
Here’s an experiment:
- Create new Twitter account
- Copy and paste Jones’ tweets as though you wrote them (do not retweet him; just say the same things verbatim)
- Have a friend report your account
Hypothesis: even if you have 1000 followers, you get banned. Despite the content of your account being identical to Jones’
I think I just heard that Jack Dorsey is going to be on with Lester Holt tonight. I’ll be interested to hear what he has to say.
Jack Dorsey’s tacit endorsement of Jones is going to drive me away from twatter permanently.
“Any suspension, whether it be a permanent or a temporary one, makes someone think about their actions and their behaviors,”
Nothing short of a complete ban is the right response
Dorsey is afraid if he bans Alex Jones people will start pushing to ban Donald Trump. The Tweeter in Chief is worth a lot of money to Twitter.
Succinct and to the point. 'I agree,
It is horsehit on Jack’s part.
Anyone else would get a permanent ban.
I don’t know but it seems like this was more the court of Public Opinion rather than the standards that finally made them move on this. I’m sure they’re hearing from their backers as to how they don’t want to be part of any Twitter-inspired massacres.
I use twitter, mostly as a political news feed. I rarely post.
But good grief, it’s DNA is not made of the stuff it needs to be made of. The soul of Twitter the company is dark and hollow.
The product itself is profoundly flawed. Little more than the comments section of some online publication. Usenet with prettier skin.
Their whole posture of declaring higher purpose through facilitating human expression and connection is… comical.
For some, Twitter is a place to go bomb out a fart as loud as possible to see if it generates a reaction.
That’s precisely what has destroyed their product, yet they don’t even seem to sense that their product is ruined.
I think in terms of evolution and biology. Humans have evolved ways to detect and deal with misfits like Alec Jones in a natural environment. Imagine how long he’d last if he showed up in your tribe’s village with one of his rage ons? Eventually, he’d be stew in the pot.
Not so in social media.
Especially social media run by derps.
You’ve been very naughty, Alex. Now go sit in the time out chair. That’s right, Alex. I’m very, very cross.
Now if we can just move them along to Turkey Behind Palin we’ll be getting somewhere.
Exact ally what I was going to say