{"id":460716,"date":"2021-01-14T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=460716"},"modified":"2021-01-14T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T05:32:26","slug":"twitters-dorsey-says-banning-trump-was-right-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/460716\/twitters-dorsey-says-banning-trump-was-right-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s Dorsey says banning Trump was \u2018right decision\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Inc chief executive officer Jack Dorsey said the decision to ban US president Donald Trump was necessary, but raises questions about the power of social-media companies and Twitter\u2019s failure to promote healthy conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the right decision for Twitter. We faced an extraordinary and untenable circumstance, forcing us to focus all of our actions on public safety,\u201d the CEO wrote as part of a series of tweets, his first public comments since Twitter permanently removed Trump\u2019s account on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we\u2019d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jack (@jack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1349510769268850690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, having to ban an account has real and significant ramifications,\u201d Dorsey added. \u201cWhile there are clear and obvious exceptions, I feel a ban is a failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation. And a time for us to reflect on our operations and the environment around us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey expressed concern about the collective power of technology companies to silence someone like Trump in unison. Other companies, including Facebook Inc, Snap Inc and Amazon.com Inc\u2019s Twitch, also suspended the president\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his supporters took their protests to Parler, an alternative social network, until Apple Inc. and Google pulled the service from their app stores and Amazon stopped providing cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey said he did not believe this was coordinated, but added that he hopes the social-media industry will move toward a \u201cdecentralized standard,\u201d citing Bitcoin as an example of a technology that is \u201cnot controlled or influenced by any single individual or entity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we all need to look critically at inconsistencies of our policy and enforcement. Yes, we need to look at how our service might incentivize distraction and harm. Yes, we need more transparency in our moderation operations. All this can\u2019t erode a free and open global internet,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter banned Trump\u2019s personal account two days after a group of the President\u2019s followers stormed the US Capitol building to protest his election loss.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had previously disputed the results on Twitter and expressed love for the violent crowd, a violation of the company\u2019s rules. Twitter warned Trump that another rule violation would lead to a permanent ban.<\/p>\n<p>The company ultimately decided that the President\u2019s subsequent tweets could be interpreted by his followers as a call to continue disputing the election results, so removed his account entirely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/460616\/there-is-huge-demand-for-this-one-high-paying-job-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">There is huge demand for this one high paying job in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter Inc chief executive officer Jack Dorsey said the decision to ban US president Donald Trump was necessary, but raises questions about the power of social-media companies and Twitter\u2019s failure to promote healthy conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":406787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,93],"class_list":["post-460716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460724,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460716\/revisions\/460724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}