Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Content Critical of President Obama

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)

#payitforward

According to a recent article on BuzzFeed

Twitter's CEO ordered content that was critical of President Obama to be Censored.
“This was another example of trying to woo celebs and show that you can have civilized conversations without the hate even if you’re a high-profile person,” the source said. “But it’s another example of a double standard — we’ll protect our celebrities, while the average user is out there subject to all kinds of horrible things.”

In an exit interview with The Guardian on his last day, he defended Twitter’s commitment to free speech.
All I can say is thank god for Steemit, the only uncensorable social media network.

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@silverbug2000 Thanks man! i appreciate you letting me know. Interesting I'm like 47 out of 50.
Guess I'll have to work on that more.

This is why a platform like Steemit is so damn important! All viability of the Steem cryptocurrency aside, if we are going to maintain any degree of freedom in our lives, we can't surrender to the mainstream social media companies. Their allegiance is to power. Steemit empowers US, and for that reason alone it's worth more than money alone.

That's not gonna be good for Twitter... as if they didn't have enough problems. Google needs to buy them already.