Letter form Timothy Klausutis to Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO

[mobeau69]

Last edited Tue May 26, 2020, 08:32 AM - Edit history (1)

These conspiracy theorists, including most recently the President of the United States, continue to spread their bile and misinformation on your platform disparaging the memory of my wife and our marriage.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6968-jack-dorsey-letter/ffaa205b1364518c15b3/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

[samnsara]

1. i cant get it to open but I just heard it..wow

..twitter IS the swamp!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Here's another link to the letter:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6968-jack-dorsey-letter/ffaa205b1364518c15b3/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

And here's an op-ed from the NYT:

Mr. Klausutis deserves an answer from Mr. Dorsey, who has the unenviable task of sorting out what is perhaps unsortable, which is to say, the ugly heart of Twitter’s most famous customer. While sources close to the company said executives had been trying to figure out what to do over the weekend, the company has at this writing been silent about this latest controversy involving Mr. Trump’s appalling and rule-breaking Twitter habit.

This episode is not unlike other infamous stories floating around social media, like the inhumane speculation about the death of a Democratic National Committee staffer, Seth Rich, or the ocean of nasty misinformation about the murders of the children of Sandy Hook Elementary that got Alex Jones deservedly thrown off several platforms.

But this mess is perhaps the high tide of that endless spew of toxic bile because it is being relentlessly amped up by the leader of the free world.

Tweeting misinformation is not new for Mr. Trump, who uses the service as his political cudgel to govern, campaign, wage petty digital wars and, more recently, peddle dangerous medical advice about Covid-19. All of this Twitter has allowed, because it has deemed even the most inane of the president’s utterances as “newsworthy.”

The rest at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/trump-scarborough-twitter.html

[mobeau69]

3. Thanks TVO.

I updated the link to the letter in my post.

[gratuitous]

4. "The high tide of . . . toxic bile"

No, just another depressing milestone marker as that tide rises and rises with no end in sight. Because rich people like Jack Dorsey get richer off the endless spew, because rich people like Les Moonves get richer off the toxic bile. In fleeting moments of unguarded candor, they will concede that what's making them richer isn't good for the nation or our society, but the money's just too good to stand up to it. Then comes the Luke 12:20 moment, and it's too late.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. It's here too, for those who can't access the NYT:

HumanCapitalStockHat Retweeted

This letter is very powerful:

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

6. I am very sorry for this man &'s family. But after seeing the filth go after Sandy Hook families

I don't hold out much hope that any of these social media "titans" will do the right thing.

Karma is coming, assholes!