Agency or agencies for which nominator feels nominee is best suited:
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Council of Economic Advisers
Organization name(s) and position(s) for which nominator feels nominee is best suited:
Policies which the nominator knows the nominee supports or in which they have expertise:
Jack Dorsey is a technology entrepreneur and is experienced in internet technologies, open source software, social media, blockchain, Bitcoin, decentralized finance, decentralized internet, and decentralized social media. Through his support of the decentralized social media protocol NOSTR, Jack Dorsey is ensuring a future decentralized version of the internet where speech cannot be censored, and the First Amendment rights of every American is protected. Jack Dorsey would be effective in a science and technology role advising the Trump administration on internet/blockchain/Bitcoin policy, as well as in the Council of Economic Advisers.
Nominator's thoughts on what would make this nominee a valuable member of a future Trump Unity Government
1) Is Competent ... 2) Is Honest... 3) Is Respectful ... 4) Has Integrity ... 5) Has Courage ... 6) Has a Proven Record...
Yeah, that’s a big fat NO! Even if he’s changed, he has no business in a leadership role in this country after the way Twitter was run before Elon took over!
This is a huge NO from me too. I will appose this for sure. Jack does not deserve any roll in leadership let along in the government when he clearly is evil or spineless.
Jack is very thoughtful. I worked with him in the early days of Twitter. He’d make excellent contributions and is absolutely the kind of person you’d want on your team thinking about the long term. (You can safely disregard the earlier replies — they only vaguely make sense if you have a superficial understanding of the dynamics at play at pre-Elon Twitter — the reality (as it is with most things) is complicated).
Jack Dorsey is definitely smart, but he also definitely fails at having shown courage. He absolutely caved to censorship pressures at Twitter. I cannot believe he would even be considered.
The correct solution here — one which he has seemed to dedicate much of his time to since Twitter was steamrolled by the previous administration — has been to make technology work in such a way to make censorship structurally impossible (i.e. via genuinely decentralized services). It would be dangerously tenuous to continue to rely on superhuman people to resist the never-ending and constantly adapting pressures to censor these centralized systems.
I think it’s clear from his actions that he is trying to build and uphold actual values — and I think this is a point worth repeating — because it’s easy to mistake someone who may be, right now, applying right-leaning pressure on a left-imbalanced system as having some kind of integrity, but only to find later after the system begins leaning right, that their integrity was a mirage and the pressure continues in the wrong direction. Double edged swords inevitably cut in both directions. It would be nice if folks stopped making those.
I think you make an excellent point about making technology more resistant to censorship- but Jack Dorsey is not the man to do that. In September 2018 he appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and testified that Twitter was not censoring people, and not shadow-banning Republicans. He should have been charged with perjury. On that basis alone he should hold no position within the Administration.
I completely empathize with that position. (I also empathize with being on the receiving end of a boil-the-frog-style censorship apparatus that most folks, at the time, barely knew existed). I’ve leave the “pro” argument at this: perhaps there is value in having someone who was on the receiving end of coercion-that-may-not-have-seemed-as-such and have some insight into root-causing the issue, given that their actions after the fact indicate a genuine desire to solve the problem.
The most interesting thing about this nomination is it just goes to show you that name recognition is worth more than anything
If you’re looking for someone with the technical chops Jack has (if not moreso) but who has some courage to stand up to things when we’re going down a bad path…
I don’t think this is how Jack would get into a position lol, so this isn’t quite a serious nomination… But I do appreciate Jack’s apparent philosophical swing toward morality, and his support for Bobby.
