| LurkerJ said: In Stunning Admission, Jack Dorsey Acknowledges Twitter's "Left-Leaning" Bias Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted to CNN's Brian Stelter on Saturday what has been obvious for some time; Twitter employees have "more left-leaning" bias. And while that's not exactly a shocker, Dorsey waxed eloquent about the company's responsibilities, suggesting they operate in a neutral manner and not "according to political ideology or viewpoints." "We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is...is more left-leaning," said Dorsey.
And recall in July 2016 that gay conservative Milo Yiannapoulos was permanently banned from Twitter for calling Ghost Busters reboot star Leslie Jones "barely literate," and tweeting "If at first you don't succeed (because your work is terrible), play the victim." Jones complained, and *poof* - Milo was banished forever from the platform. Ghostbusters, meanwhile, lost $70 million and has a user-review score of 26% on Metacritic. Peter Fonda, meanwhile, suggested in June that Barron Trump, the 12-year-old son of the President, be placed "in a cage with pedophiles" during a national conversation about separating migrant children from their families (which Obama did, a lot). Fonda got to issue a "just kidding, sorry" apology while keeping his (verified) account. |
[edit: Deleted objection to thread title that in retrospect was overly nitpicky.]
Milo Yiannopolis made a career out of throwing rhetorical hand grenades. He was literally a professional provocateur. I will agree that Twitter claiming to have banned him for any one specific hand grenade is more or less bullshit. But the bottom line is that any act of contrition on his part was a completely transparent lie and he was 100% guaranteed to keep acting badly. Maybe Peter Fonda is cut from the same cloth and therefore equally deserving of a ban—I don't know anything about the guy—but if not that makes the different decisions justified to me. If Fonda says something just as bad two months later, and again after that, then he can be banned too.
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