With internal investigation led by Elon Musk identifying issues related to censorship on Twitter, the platform’s former CEO, Jack Dorsey, has promoted the idea of a “free and open protocol” for social media.
In a post, Dorsey highlighted some possible solutions to the current problems of the Twitter platform. According to the former executive, this includes making it resistant to corporate or government control, giving the right to remove content only to the original author, and implementing moderation through algorithmic choice. This is how he explained it:
“I firmly believe that any content produced by someone for the Internet should be permanent until the original author decides to delete it. It should always be available and accessible. The removal and suspension of content should not be possible.”
Dorsey believes that the Twitter platform under his leadership and the current Twitter do not live up to the three principles he mentioned and blamed himself for not fighting for the platform. He wrote:
“This is solely my fault as I completely stopped lobbying for them when an activist bought our shares in 2020. […][…] I planned my exit at that point knowing that I was no longer the right fit for the company.”
Dorsey also pointed out that the biggest mistake was to focus on creating tools to manage the public conversation instead of creating ones that would allow Twitter users to manage it themselves. “This loaded the company with too much power,” added. With this, the company was also exposed to external pressures, according to the former executive.
In a tweet, Dorsey also I sharedor the GitHub link to a censorship-resistant open protocol currently being built. The project named “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted” It aims to enable the creation of decentralized social networks based on cryptographic keys and signatures.
On October 18, Dorsey also announced news about Bluesky Social, a decentralized social networking project that was founded in 2019. With the platform, there will be no company that can decide what is published. Instead, there will be a marketplace of companies deciding what to “bring to their audiences.”
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