Jack Dorsey discusses three principles Twitter should adhere to! Announces plans to create a social media network protocol.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey today outlined three principles he believes social media should adhere to, but admits that Twitter has never been able to meet them at any point. In order to achieve these standards, he has decided to create a free and open-source protocol for social media and fund relevant engineering teams with cash and equity.

Social Media Three Principles

Jack stated in his latest article "A Native Internet Protocol for Social Media" that as a co-founder and former leader of Twitter, he believes that social media should adhere to the following three principles:

1. Social media must be flexible in the face of corporate or governmental control:

Although governments may use various means, including media, to control public discourse, allowing governments to control would lead to excessive centralization. People must have tools to resist such behavior, and these tools should ultimately be controlled by the people themselves.

2. Only the original authors can delete the content they create:

Content created by anyone on the internet should be permanent unless the original author decides to delete it. At the same time, others should not be able to delete or restrict content, as this would make illegal activities, learning, and law enforcement more complicated. The internet is moving towards a world of free and unlimited storage, focusing all real value on how to discover and view content.

3. Review is best implemented through algorithmic selection:

It is too difficult to conduct content review globally through centralized systems, and it can only be achieved through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized, the better. However, this should not be built or controlled by governments or companies; people should be able to establish and choose algorithms that best suit their standards.

However, due to past mistakes, he believes that neither the Twitter of the past nor the present meets these principles.

"My biggest mistake was continuing to invest in tools to manage public conversations rather than developing tools for people to easily manage their use of Twitter." Jack Dorsey said.

Granting too much power to Twitter has brought burdens and external pressures. After banning former U.S. President Trump from using Twitter, Jack fully realizes that Twitter has become too powerful.

Social Media Open Protocol Project

To achieve the above three principles, Jack has decided to develop a free and open-source protocol for social media. This protocol is not owned by any corporate group and is released in a wiki-style to demonstrate transparency.

However, this project is unrelated to the "decentralized Twitter" but rather an urgent push for core technical standards to make social media an integral part of the internet.

"I believe this is crucial for the future of Twitter and the ability for public conversations to truly serve the people, which will help hold governments and companies accountable, and hopefully make everything more interesting and detailed again." Jack Dorsey said.

To accelerate the progress of open-source networks and protocols, Jack will provide cash and equity funding to engineering teams working on social media and private messaging protocols, Bitcoin, and pure internet operating systems. The encrypted messaging software Signal is the first team to receive funding, receiving $1 million annually.