Jack Dorsey Pandered to Right-Wingers, They Still Came After Him

Trump Won’t Be Happy Until Twitter Allows Him to Lie At Will

Manny Otiko
4 min readMay 29, 2020
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (JD Lasica/Flickr)

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There is a certain amount of schadenfreude (taking pleasure in other’s suffering) at watching the tweeter-in-chief threaten to go after Twitter. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has bent over backward for right-wingers.

Unfortunately, he listened to the lies about tech companies having a liberal bias and has avoided cracking down on right-wing commenters. Unfortunately, this has led to an increased crackdown on anyone who’s not conservative.

I have personal experience with this. After junior Karen Tomi Lahren released another brain fart, I tweeted at her that she was “acting like a bimbo.” What I meant by the comment was that she was smarter than that and pretending to be dumb.

Within an hour, I received a message from Twitter saying they were censoring my post, and if I repeated the behavior, my…

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Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.