{"id":1065099,"date":"2021-11-29T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065099"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:28:37","slug":"twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-our-role-is-not-to-be-bound-by-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-our-role-is-not-to-be-bound-by-the-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal: &#039;Our Role Is Not to Be Bound by the First Amendment&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-our-role-is-not-to-be-bound-by-the-first-amendment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Parag-Agrawal-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">In an interview last year, the incoming CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, made it clear that free speech is not a priority for the company, and that his platform would not be \u201cbound\u201d by the First Amendment. Agrawal said:&nbsp;\u201cThe kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agrawal, formerly Chief Technology Officer of the social media company, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/29\/twitter-stock-jumps-as-jack-dorsey-resigns-as-ceo-replaced-by-cto-parag-agrawal\/\">announced<\/a> as the successor to Jack Dorsey earlier today, following the latter\u2019s decision to step down as CEO.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/11\/18\/1012066\/emtech-stage-twitters-cto-on-misinformation\/\">interview<\/a> with the&nbsp;<em>MIT Technology Review&nbsp;<\/em>last year, Agrawal said that Twitter no longer considered free speech to be an area of focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation,\u201d said Agrawal. \u201cThe kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agrawal said that the priority of the company was \u201cdirecting\u201d people\u2019s attention to tweets that served \u201chealthy\u201d conversations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOne of the changes today that we see is speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scarce commodity today is attention. There\u2019s a lot of content out there. A lot of tweets out there, not all of it gets attention, some subset of it gets attention. And so increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content and that sort of, is, is, a struggle that we\u2019re working through in terms of how we make sure these recommendation systems that we\u2019re building, how we direct people\u2019s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/29\/twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal-why-should-i-distinguish-between-white-people-and-racists\/\">Breitbart News previously reported<\/a>, Agrawal has also repeated statements on race attacking white people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.1256830601093\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Parag Agrawal (@paraga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\/status\/28773976508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists,\u201d tweeted Agrawal in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview last year, the incoming CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, made it clear that free speech is not a priority for the company, and that his platform would &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}