Twitter Sucks Because We Suck. Don’t Blame @Jack: New at Reason

A lot of criticism of Twitter takes the form of public tweets aimed at Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey (@jack). Those tweets have heated up in recent years because Twitter is President Donald Trump’s second-favorite tool for reaching has base. (Perpetual campaign rallies ranks number one, because of all the cheering.) These days, many of the complaints charge that Dorsey and his company aren’t doing enough “conversational health work” to make Twitter an inclusive public forum for divergent opinions that also reduces or prevents “abusive” speech.

The hard fact is, no matter how much Dorsey commits himself to making Twitter a safe space for debate, conversation, and entertainment, he’s always going to be criticized for not doing enough, writes Mike Godwin in his latest piece at Reason.

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