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Official company statement at the time:

"Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump":

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

Jack Dorsey at the time:

"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Trump Ban After Deadly Riot 'the Right Decision'":

https://people.com/politics/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-addresse...

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Changing your mind on complex issues like this is normal I'd say.

People can't change mind?

Sure. I used to respect Jack, now I’ve changed my mind.

So you're pro censorship?

I'm more on the "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" -boat. Actually I though most people here would be, I'm a bit disappointed tbh.

They can it's just typically called hypocrisy.

In America it's called politics

Changing your mind is not hypocrisy. Look it up.

in this case there's no reason to believe he changed his mind

it's much more likely that one of the two views was simply him expressing what he thought was the most politically opportunistic opinion to express at the time

perhaps both

I believe it was Emerson that said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of not selling out"

That is not what hypocrisy means.

Hypocrisy has nothing to do with changing your mind over time. It had to do with taking actions which are consistent with your stated position, and holding yourself up to the same moral and ethical standards to which you hold others.

They can, but the question is whether that's what happened. I think Dorsey was always on the side of free speech in principle. Twitter used to market itself as "the free speech wing of the free speech party". [1]

He probably wasn't in a strong enough position to be able to resist the pressure to silence Trump.

[1]: https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/22/twitter-tony-w...

Especially when the facts turn out to be faked. Only one person died at the riot: a woman protestor who was shot by an African American cop. Only later, one person later died from overdosing on drugs and 3 died of natural causes. If we wait 100 years the casualty list will grow to 100%.

"A bipartisan Senate report found that at least seven people had lost their lives in connection with the Jan. 6 attack."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol...

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