Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder and CEO of Square, attends the Bitcoin 2021 Convention cryptocurrency conference at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida on June 4, 2021 Marco Bello/AFP/Getty Images
Jack Dorsey said, “The centralization of enterprise discovery and identity has really hurt the internet.”
The Twitter founder, who stepped down as CEO in November, said he partly blamed himself.
Dorsey has previously supported efforts to decentralize the internet.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said Saturday he partly blames himself for the state of the internet today.
“The days of Usenet, IRC, the Web…even email (with PGP)…were amazing,” said Dorsey in a tweet, which refers to certain online communication systems that date back to the early days of the Internet. “Enterprise centralization of discovery and identity has really hurt the internet.”
“I realize that I’m partly to blame, and I regret it,” Dorsey continued.
Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter in 2006 and served as CEO until stepping down in November, has previously advocated for internet decentralization.
After Twitter banned former President Donald Trump from the platform for violating its rules, Dorsey called He felt the action “set a precedent that I find dangerous: the power that an individual or corporation has over any part of the global public conversation.”
While Dorsey was still CEO, Twitter funded Bluesky, a decentralized social media system that he said would enable more conversations. The system, which will take years to develop, aims to put the power back in the hands of users and allow the creation of many different social networks.
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