Just one day after far-left activist Jack Dorsey was replaced as the CEO of Twitter by the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal, the platform has banned the sharing of any images or videos of people without their explicit consent. The totalitarian Agrawal stated, “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”
“Feeling safe on Twitter is different for everyone, and our teams are constantly working to understand and address these needs,” reads his statement. “We know our work will never be done, and we will continue to invest in making our product and policies more robust and transparent to continue to earn the trust of the people using our service.”
Monday on FNC’s Fox News Primetime, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) offered his interpretation of the new rule. “I promise you what it won’t mean, and the people whose privacy won’t be protected, are normal Americans who want to express their views, particularly if they have conservative views. I promise that you their privacy won’t be respected. They will still get censored…
“Let’s just remember what Twitter does by the way how they make their money,” he added. “They track us around the web everywhere they — everywhere we go. They collect a dossier on us. They sell our information. They profit off of us. I promise you they are not going to stop doing any of that stuff. And at the end of the day, Pete, here’s the deal: the last thing America needs is another big tech robber baron who doesn’t care anything for free speech, and that’s exactly what Twitter is giving us.”