{"id":1765138,"date":"2022-12-06T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765138"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:47:43","slug":"twitters-former-head-of-trust-and-safety-wants-to-cleanse-the-internet-of-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitters-former-head-of-trust-and-safety-wants-to-cleanse-the-internet-of-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s Former Head Of Trust And Safety Wants To Cleanse The Internet Of Dissent"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftwitters-former-head-of-trust-and-safety-wants-to-cleanse-the-internet-of-dissent%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=1765138&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--><p>Late last month, Yoel Roth \u2014 the former head of trust and safety at Twitter \u2014 was a featured panelist at a conference hosted by the Knight Foundation titled \u201cInformed: Conversations On Democracy In The Digital Age.\u201d Roth spent the hour-long <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/776426548?embedded=true&#038;source=vimeo_logo&#038;owner=430486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">panel<\/a> fielding editorialized questions from left-wing tech journalist Kara Swisher in which the two revealed how leftists view Big Tech as little more than a mechanism for further consolidating their grip on institutionalized power.<\/p>\n<p>Roth\u2019s answers provide insight into how he, and likely the majority of his peers in the managerial elite, feel about the intersection of institutional power and the rights of American citizens. Big Tech and Silicon Valley have a well-documented disdain for free speech, and people like Roth seemingly believe they have a moral obligation to perpetuate a censorship regime that overwhelmingly favors leftwing political figures and their preferred cultural trends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion, Roth stated that he advised his old team from Twitter, who he believes are \u201chighly values-driven and have chosen to do the work of internet sanitation,\u201d to think about Musk\u2019s acquisition of the company as \u201cbeing a frog in a pot of boiling water\u201d and to write down their personal \u201climits\u201d that they should use to determine when and if they ought to cease working for Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked what his \u201cred line\u201d was for leaving the company, the former trust and safety lead, who is believed to have been a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/11\/post-censoring-twitter-exec-yoel-roth-among-latest-to-quit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">key figure<\/a> in suppressing the New York Post\u2019s reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and who likened Trump officials to Nazis, said, \u201cI will not lie for [Elon Musk].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Roth indicated that Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cprocedural legitimacy\u201d \u2014 what he described as the structured, disciplined process for making substantive decisions \u2014 was neither democratic nor transparent enough for him to be comfortable remaining at Twitter. Swisher, the panel\u2019s moderator, implied Musk\u2019s corporate leadership style invoked dictatorial tendencies by saying he \u201ctended towards the authoritarian\u201d as opposed to a \u201cconsensus-driven\u201d approach and was encouraged by \u201cenablers\u201d who \u201csay yes all day long and lick him up and down continually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roth was adamant that he wouldn\u2019t \u201clie\u201d for Musk; that crossed a line and violated his moral code. However, one could be excused for not taking Roth\u2019s self-righteous preenings at face value, considering that during his tenure as the head of trust and safety, Twitter was frequently used to disseminate child pornography, send constant violent threats to traditional religious communities, and facilitate transactions by human traffickers, all while allowing the perpetuation of political disinformation that overwhelmingly favored leftists causes.<\/p>\n<p>During the panel, Roth insisted that he was not involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/files\/legal\/murs\/7821\/7821_07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documents<\/a> that have recently become public, known as the \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d indicate that since 2018 he had \u201cweekly meetings\u201d with \u201cfederal law enforcement agencies\u201d who were priming him to be on the lookout for sensitive information implicating people close to 2020 presidential campaigns. It was in these meetings that Roth, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtracey\/status\/1599968679671656450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in his own words<\/a>, \u201clearned \u2026 that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoel Roth and his peers in the managerial elite view free speech as an obstacle to attaining total conformance with their worldview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":1765141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765138","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}