If anyone knows how important Twitter is to Donald Trump, it's the president.
“Without the tweets, I wouldn't be here,” he told the Financial Times last month.
To which Twitter's co-founder says: Sorry about that, world.
Evan Williams, who still sits on the company's board of directors, recently told The New York Times that he wants to repair the damage he thinks Twitter and the broader Internet have wrought on society in the form of trolls, cyberbullies, live-streamed violence, fake news and — yes — Trump.
“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Williams told the Times. “I was wrong about that.”
“If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry,” he said.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:40PM
Sounds like they're taking a page from Reddit's playbook and deciding that free speech is a problem. To which I say, they can go fuck themselves.
The answer to fake news is not to prevent it being published (which will rapidly snowball into censoring political viewpoints in general you don't like), it's to exercise your brain and not believe every goddamn thing you read!
Doxxing and SWATing are problems that can already be legally handled, but otherwise people are a bunch of whiners quick to label anyone they don't like "trolls."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"