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25 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
My tips for a former President who wants to start a social network! You’re welcome, Donald! First, naming: Avoid MeinSpace and InstaGraft, for obvious reasons nytimes.com/2021/03/25/opi…
Also learn to love Section 230 and your fellow tech moguls. Yes, even Jeff Bezos. Hug it out.
Also, you should think about having a fresh kombucha station at HQ.
Enragement equals engagement. You didn’t start the fire — well, maybe you did — but you definitely need to keep stoking it.
Instigation and perfidy, in fact, make the perfect formula for a modern-day social network, so you are already well on your way, given your skill set.
Thomas Edison said that “genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” I might rephrase that for your entry into tech by saying, genius is 1 percent instigation and 99 percent perfidy.

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9 Feb
1/Or maybe @cwarzel you don’t want to paint a rich VC’s fence by giving up your attention & analysis gratis. Reminds me of when Facebook was bugging everyone to do FB Live. Alls I could reply was: What is the actual benefit to anyone BUT FB?
2/It is certainly good for those who need or want to make a splash or as a place for new voices to emerge. The real benefit of the service to users imho is in the non-famous-for-SV groups that are creative and additive to life and work in some way.
3/The panoply of achingly dull “interviews” w/famed dudes is fine. Being in the same room, even virtual, is exciting, like being near a celeb at a cocktail party & you don’t care that a lot of it is retread remarks/PR. But it’ll get tired like those endless SV VC parties did.
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4 Feb
Just for an actual fact check, I just listened to the entire video ⁦AOC did on Instagram about this and she does not say insurrectionists were in the halls of her particular office area. She said she did not know what was going on in the chaos & was scared about where to go. Image
She def sounds and describes herself as someone who did not know what was going on and was nervous about the worst possibilities, which seems a pretty normal response to me given the level of hatred aimed at her. She was scary because it was scary and a moment of zero good info.
AOC clearly says “all these crazy thoughts go through your head.” It seems like a perfectly normal response to a surreal & potentially dangerous situation. So not exactly clear why Rep. Mace needs to dunk, other than to score her own points, since she had also expressed fear. Sad
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10 Jan
As usual @LindseyGrahamSC is a dumb as a box of hammers about Section 230 & how important it is to regulate tech in a smart way. If it is stripped — his word, but mine — it will mean anyone even slightly controversial will be taken off the platforms to protect from lawsuits.
If he really understood the law & the First Amendment, he’d know that these are actually private spaces and not public squares & can dump people off and 230 has zip to do with that. Sounds like a socialist, since he wants private enterprise to be told what to do by government.
The tech industry, which is not a monolith, needs regulation, for sure, but it needs to be done with smarts and needs to treat each issue differently with a different solutions. Antitrust, fines, new laws, current regs applied. These tweets are nonsense, twitchy and reductive
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9 Jan
What @parscale is advocating for here is, well, socialism versus private enterprise. I love me some capitalism! But Twitter is not a highly regulated public utility. Nor Google. Nor Apple. Nor Facebook. Nor Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit. Come on Sway like I asked & we can discuss!
Btw you DO get cut off from even the electric company when you break the rules. Like say, incite a mob to attack the Capitol. That’s bad, don’t you agree?
Another: say someone rants in a restaurant (a seeming public space but not), they would get zero chances to come back. But one guy gets unlimited rants. After a while as the rants get crazier, they put a sign over his head. Then when his rant incites violence, he gets tossed.
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9 Jan
Son, i know it’s hard for you to grok since you obvi missed the Bill of Rights class, but none of the social media sites are public forums for your generation or oldsters like me. The very first one is called the First Amendment (see how easy the founders made it — civics is fun)
It says CONGRESS — that’s you now kid! — shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Facebook can, Twitter can, they all can, because — and here’s the twist — they have First Amendment rights to not host jerks like Trump who break their rules.
You cannot make a “New Town Square” law or add Twitter to the First Amendment no matter how many times you watched the how a bill becomes a law Schoolyard Rock episode to prep for your new job and think you can.
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8 Jan
He can publish it online @SubstackInc. He can tweet the whole thing. He can read it out loud on the corner of 14th and U Streets NW. He can definitely get another publisher. This is not Orwellian — it is called consequences and lots of people’s books are dumped for much less.
You live with the consequences of fist pumping at people who then attack the Capitol as a mob. You essentially been Romneyed.
Lastly @HawleyMO send it to me and I would be happy to read it as I was looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this topic. You used to actually be surprisingly thoughtful on tech reform until your whole jam became about, well, clicks and the twitchy demands of naked ambition
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