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There are a significant number of tech workers I know that do genuinely believe that companies should leverage their technology to benefit the candidates that t

There are a significant number of tech workers I know that do genuinely believe that companies should leverage their technology to benefit the candidates that they feel would be better for the country, and do things like ban Trump's social media accounts. This is what Bosworth was addressing: > But he maintained that the company should not change its policies on political advertising, saying that doing so in order to avert a victory by Mr. Trump would be a misuse of power, comparing it to a scene from “The Lord of the Rings.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/facebook-andrew-bosworth-memo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/facebook-andre...

Marsymars 7y ago
Banning Trump's social media accounts wouldn't require bias against him, it would simply require him to stop receiving special exemption from platform rules.
- chc 7y ago
  People are downvoting this, but it's just a matter of fact. Jack Dorsey has repeatedly said that the "newsworthiness" of Trump's tweets outweighs the ordinary standards of propriety that get applied to other people's tweets. Somebody asked Jack point blank whether Twitter would take action if Trump made a tweet explicitly asking his followers to murder a journalist, and Jack's response was, "We'd certainly talk about it." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calling-murder-get-trump-banned-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-wont-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calli...)
  - lol2143651 7y ago
    Twitter didn't ban accounts calling for the murder of the Covington kids. There clearly are no standards for you to hide behind.
- gjs278 7y ago
  maybe those rules shouldn’t apply to anyone
- manfredo 7y ago
  Specific individuals aside, the point was to explain that Bosworth was talking about how Facebook shouldn't use it's platforms to benefit the candidates of their preference.

Marsymars 7y ago

Banning Trump's social media accounts wouldn't require bias against him, it would simply require him to stop receiving special exemption from platform rules.

chc 7y ago
People are downvoting this, but it's just a matter of fact. Jack Dorsey has repeatedly said that the "newsworthiness" of Trump's tweets outweighs the ordinary standards of propriety that get applied to other people's tweets. Somebody asked Jack point blank whether Twitter would take action if Trump made a tweet explicitly asking his followers to murder a journalist, and Jack's response was, "We'd certainly talk about it." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calling-murder-get-trump-banned-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-wont-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calli...)
- lol2143651 7y ago
  Twitter didn't ban accounts calling for the murder of the Covington kids. There clearly are no standards for you to hide behind.
gjs278 7y ago
maybe those rules shouldn’t apply to anyone
manfredo 7y ago
Specific individuals aside, the point was to explain that Bosworth was talking about how Facebook shouldn't use it's platforms to benefit the candidates of their preference.