Jack Dorsey cuts ties with Bluesky board, signals new priorities in X's ‘Freedom Technology’

The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, present rebranded X, to tout his caller philanthropic grants to unfastened net protocols, which helium described arsenic “freedom technology." He besides added X to that people of tech, elaborating lone to accidental that corporations tin physique upon unfastened protocols too.

Dorsey whittled down the database of radical helium follows connected X to conscionable three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, woman of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. It suggested an evident warming of relations betwixt X’s proprietor and Dorsey, who had posted connected Bluesky a twelvemonth agone that “it each went south" aft Musk’s takeover and extremist translation of Twitter.

Bluesky is simply a web and protocol launched to prosecute Dorsey’s platonic perfect for Twitter arsenic a work without cardinal control, and it opened to each funny users successful February. The societal work made a splash successful its aboriginal days arsenic a mode to flight the upheaval astatine Twitter successful Musk’s aboriginal days, though it has since been overshadowed by the motorboat of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads arsenic the astir viable alternative. Dorsey responded to a question connected X arsenic to whether helium was inactive connected the Bluesky committee with a “no".

(With inputs from Bloomberg)

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Published: 06 May 2024, 03:15 PM IST