Jack and the Twitter board

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ukor

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Apr 17 11 Comments

The most vocals are talking about Twitter acquisition saying that it’s an assault of conservatives to control an important social media (barely exaggerating) and that it will result in a lot of harm.

Aside the questionability of this analysis, Jack is now publicly disavowing the Twitter board https://twitter.com/jack/status/1515549577352564740?s=20&t=pl2K02-zstVrZVoM1iPoYw

I’ve read Twitter employees say they are being ‘super stressed’ about the acquisition and now Jack, who is very popular among employees and cannot really be taken for a conservative, is ending up backing the idea that the board is going in the wrong direction.

I’m wondering what are the thoughts of people who are usually thinking in a democrats vs republicans way, how do you solve that?
Also, what do Twitter folks here think about that?

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TOP 11 Comments
  • Truist
    🥜bank

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    🥜bank
    Politics aside, the board has the fiduciary duty towards the investors. Its pure business decision, sell it or get sued
    Apr 17 1
  • If it does end up having a conservative lean then so what? Every other major social media platform in the US leans much farther left.
    Apr 17 2
    • Roku
      ukor

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      ukor
      OP
      My question is: if someone thinks that being opposed to conservatives means you should oppose the acquisition (which is a high percentage of news coverage of that event), how do you explain Jack’s position in your thinking process.

      (btw whether it will lean more conservative is a prediction I’m personably not qualified to argue for or against)
      Apr 17
    • Databricks / Eng
      Zelenskyy

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      Zelenskyy
      You seriously think FB leans left?
      Apr 17
  • Amazon
    lsanchez

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    lsanchez
    Meta is more useless than Twitter
    Apr 17 0
  • VMware
    ahgshaha

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    ahgshaha
    How exactly is he going to enforce 100% free speech? It’s going to be blocked in most countries for inciting violence, conspiracy theory etc. A site operating at such a large scale will need some sort of moderation.
    Apr 17 1
    • Roku
      ukor

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      ukor
      OP
      No one said 100% free speech, he said using the same limits as the law requires. Inciting physical violence is forbidden under the law.

      But that’s not the question.
      Apr 17
  • Wayfair / Eng
    BlueCouch

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    BlueCouch
    I'm a liberal and i think we love open market so much -then it should prevail. A conservative has money to buy Twitter and make it Conservator or something? Go at it! Don't change the rules of the game if just yesterday we were asking the other team to play by them.
    Apr 17 1
    • Wayfair / Eng
      BlueCouch

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      BlueCouch
      With that said - same applies to Twitter itself. Uphold the ToS. Technically Trump wasn't banned coz he was hated by Twitter (sure... Maybe)... He was (technically) banned for violating ToS. Apply it equally.
      Apr 17