'We do not need to be neutral': Twitter *employee* boycotts Twitter until @Jack fixes it

Greg P. | 1:40 PM on August 14, 2018

Are you ready for another “powerful thread” on the evils of Twitter?

Powerful thread https://t.co/iFLjimeFRf

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) August 14, 2018

What makes this one great is that Jared is a Twitter employee:

I’ve been a daily user of @twitter for the last 11 years – long before I started working at Twitter. I won’t be a “monthly active user” during the rest of Q3. I’m deleting the @twitter app from all my devices and signing out of all browsers. @jack, thread ?

— jared. (@jaredgaut) August 14, 2018

I love @twitter, the company and service, but right now we are making the wrong decisions. Everyone at Twitter passionately wants to make the world better.

— jared. (@jaredgaut) August 14, 2018

We want to do it by bringing people together and encouraging constructive, fun, intelligent conversation. We want Twitter to be a megaphone for the voices that need it most.

— jared. (@jaredgaut) August 14, 2018

Many, many people across several orgs have done a great amount of fantastic work towards this. I believe leadership truly have their hearts in the right place and genuinely want Twitter to be a safe place, but right now leadership is failing us.

— jared. (@jaredgaut) August 14, 2018

Now here’s where he tells Twitter leadership to let that liberal flag fly because not suppressing Alex Jones is somehow suppressing voices:

We are not a government. We do not need to be neutral. The feeling that we are making the tough, right call by remaining neutral is wrong. Our inaction is suppressing voices – disabling conversation.

— jared. (@jaredgaut) August 14, 2018