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Random Thoughts About Jack Dorsey and Twitter. What if’s

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What if Jack Dorsey had been the only anchor upholding the cryptocurrency movement on Twitter? Most of us know that Jack Dorsey has been a proponent of Bitcoin and decentralization for the longest time with several projects involving Bitcoin, also, most of us know how Twitter can be with centralization, censorship and deplatforming.

With the exit of Jack Dorsey from Twitter, it seems to me that the only leash holding the rascally behavior of how Twitter treats users has just been taken off and controversial accounts including cryptocurrency accounts and projects might begin to take a huge hit as it happens on Facebook. Splinterlands was once banned for no reason till the community had to intervene and got it unbanned.

It’s quite unclear why Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO, but it’s not far fetched to think it’s because his interests are increasingly becoming contrasting to that of Twitter as a centralized platform and business.

This is something I’ve always thought about, how does someone who claim to be so in tune with decentralization, freedom, ownership, self sovereignty feel so comfortable in a world that censors and deplatforms people, in a platform that revels in control and monetizes users data. So IMO, in retrospect this move was inevitable.

The real concern is who’s going to take over from Jack. Twitter is too big of a tool to fall into the hands of a corrupt CEO or a type that revels in control.

As bad as it may sound, it’s actually not as bad as it looks, we have a solution, one we’ve been prepping for years for. Hive has been in the shadows waiting for times like this, in retrospect, this sort of situation was inevitable, it’s part of the bane that comes with centralization.

In the worst case of a draconian attempt to crack down on crypto, imagine how disastrous it’ll be when the accounts of your favorite crypto projects on Twitter are banned with their hundreds of threads explaining and analyzing their projects. This is something too risky to play with.

While this may not be the case now, the window is open and it takes one or two letters from SEC or Govt to make whoever controls the helms of affairs of Twitter to bend. It is my sincere wish that project owners begin to wake up and realize the weak links in Web 2.0 and move over to Hive where content cannot be censored or deplatformed.

But let’s assume this whole episode is not all gloom and doom and Twitters direction is geared towards embracing crypto, then crypto might have just gotten the biggest marketing tool ever and we are here for it.

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