Jack is Jack Dorsey,
Twitter CEO. He lists “a few reasons” for the decision following this initial
post, which you can find by clicking
here. The “discussion” degenerates from there (fair warning).
“[T]he
decision illustrates a sharp symbolic rift between Dorsey and one of his peers,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who on
Wednesday stood by his company’s controversial policy that essentially allows
politicians to lie in ads. . . . ‘In a democracy, I
don’t think it’s right for private companies to censor politicians or the
news,’ Zuckerberg said.”
See “Twitter to ban all political ads amid 2020 election uproar,” The Washington Post, Oct. 30, 2019.
• Editorial Comment: Wait. Politicians lie?
WORDmeister PS: Thank you, concerned
WORDsters, for your queries about fire and powerlessness. Yes, PG&E has
restored our electricity (for now). We were never in any jeopardy of fire here
in Humboldt, but the wildfires continue to our south, where 1 million people
are reported without electrical power. On Oct. 29, PBS’s Frontline aired Fire
in Paradise, almost a year after a PG&E-sparked inferno wiped out the
town of Paradise, CA, near Chico. Coming in the midst of PG&E’s recent attempts to
“manage” fire danger by shutting down the grid, it’s timely. And chilling. Recommended.
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