Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO of Twitter, the social media site, and alarm bells are going off that his replacement will take the right wing-hating website farther into Orwellian territory.
Dorsey, an odd-ball billionaire who co-founded the site in 2006, announced Monday he was departing because the company was “ready to move on” from one of its founders and move forward under new leadership and fresh ideas.
Parag Agrawal, a board member and former chief technology officer, was announced as the new CEO of the social media giant effective immediately.
Just hours after Agrawal was announced as the new leader, however, Twitter alarmed already-wary critics by announcing it was banning “the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent.”That new privacy rule was, first of all, viewed by many as a non-coincidence after Dorsey’s departure a day earlier. Secondly, right-leaning Twitter users concluded […]
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