Art Life: Socrates and Jack Dorsey's new power
17 January 2012 By Abiodun Giwa
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is more popular now as a censor than he has been as Twitter's regular leader. He has earned an epithet which is directly opposed to his position as an enabler of freedom of expression. However, Dorsey's act of a promise to take censorship beyond the Trump's episode is a reminder of what Socrates said in "Apology" about prominent people.
Many people are wondering about what Dorsey means by his awful promise of making his censorship to go beyond President Trump despite the outcry that greeted Twitter's first act of censoring the New York Post's story and Dorsey's statement that his organization acted wrongly, because he believed that the censorship made many people to begin to search for the censored story more than they would have cared about the story without the censorship.
Dorsey's right about turns would undoubtedly remind lots of Philosophy enthusiasts about Socrates, his love and death for the truth, and his view of prominent people as lacking the wisdom they claim to possess. Socrates admitted that he knew he lacked wisdom and that he failed to understand why the gods described as wise, and to answer the question he asked self-consciously about the god describing him as wise, he embarked on interviewing prominent people to see if there is a man wiser than him to refute what the god had said about him.
According to Plato in Socrates' Apology, Socrates first and interviewed a politician and found the politician unwise. He said Socrates hated the outcome because he was seeking someone wiser than him, but he found an advantage over the politician. In a near conclusion, Plato reported Socrates as saying he was disappointed that he found the men with highest reputation were almost nearly the most unwise in comparison to inferior men whom he found as wiser and better than men of reputation.
Socrates interview took him to the poets and artisans, but found they knew many things in which he was ignorant and were wiser than him, but fell into the same error that poets found themselves for believing they were wiser in all things in which they were not wise. The investigation led to Socrates having many enemies of the worst and most dangerous kind.
Has Dorsey not become like Socrates or the men of reputation who Socrates thought were wise but were not? Before the first censor of the New York Post's story by the Twitter, Dorsey or his organization did not have anyone asking questions about his organizations intention either good or bad, wise or unwise. But such questions have become common because of the censor and one would wonder why Dorsey has continued to mouth an intention to do worse than people are saying he has done with the first and subsequent censors.
Censorship is Dorsey's new found power. He is not alone. But time will tell whether or not the censorship being forced on the social media platform users will constitute an act of wisdom or politically dangerous decision.
Many people are wondering about what Dorsey means by his awful promise of making his censorship to go beyond President Trump despite the outcry that greeted Twitter's first act of censoring the New York Post's story and Dorsey's statement that his organization acted wrongly, because he believed that the censorship made many people to begin to search for the censored story more than they would have cared about the story without the censorship.
Dorsey's right about turns would undoubtedly remind lots of Philosophy enthusiasts about Socrates, his love and death for the truth, and his view of prominent people as lacking the wisdom they claim to possess. Socrates admitted that he knew he lacked wisdom and that he failed to understand why the gods described as wise, and to answer the question he asked self-consciously about the god describing him as wise, he embarked on interviewing prominent people to see if there is a man wiser than him to refute what the god had said about him.
According to Plato in Socrates' Apology, Socrates first and interviewed a politician and found the politician unwise. He said Socrates hated the outcome because he was seeking someone wiser than him, but he found an advantage over the politician. In a near conclusion, Plato reported Socrates as saying he was disappointed that he found the men with highest reputation were almost nearly the most unwise in comparison to inferior men whom he found as wiser and better than men of reputation.
Socrates interview took him to the poets and artisans, but found they knew many things in which he was ignorant and were wiser than him, but fell into the same error that poets found themselves for believing they were wiser in all things in which they were not wise. The investigation led to Socrates having many enemies of the worst and most dangerous kind.
Has Dorsey not become like Socrates or the men of reputation who Socrates thought were wise but were not? Before the first censor of the New York Post's story by the Twitter, Dorsey or his organization did not have anyone asking questions about his organizations intention either good or bad, wise or unwise. But such questions have become common because of the censor and one would wonder why Dorsey has continued to mouth an intention to do worse than people are saying he has done with the first and subsequent censors.
Censorship is Dorsey's new found power. He is not alone. But time will tell whether or not the censorship being forced on the social media platform users will constitute an act of wisdom or politically dangerous decision.
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