One tweet by the brand new Indian Twitter CEO offers away the truth that Twitter’s agenda stays unchanged

On Monday, controversial Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey known as it quits from the social media agency that he co-founded. Dorsey gave up his place to Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer, Parag Agrawal. The transfer is efficient instantly, although Dorsey will keep on the board of the social media firm till his time period expires in 2022. In an announcement, Dorsey stated, “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders. My trust in Parag as Twitter’s CEO is deep. His work over the past 10 years has been transformational. I’m deeply grateful for his skill, heart, and soul. It’s his time to lead.”But Parag Agrawal forgot deleting tweets from 10 years in the past, and the identical have come again to hang-out the newly anointed CEO. In a tweet which has gone tremendous viral after information of Agrawal taking on as CEO broke, the IIT-Bombay graduate stated in 2010, “If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.” So, folks at the moment are accusing Agrawal of being a racist, other than an Islamist sympathiser.”If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists.”— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) October 26, 2010Twitter has a fairly flagrant historical past of censoring free speech, particularly of conservatives, who’re most pronounced of their opposition to Islamists. The censorship and suspension of right-wing influencers and even people by Twitter wants no introduction. Meanwhile, Islamists and left-leaning anarchists are given an extended rope by Twitter to maintain on publishing no matter nonsense they deem match. This has led to folks figuring out Twitter as an organisation that has a hidden agenda, which, as Parag Agrawal’s tweet suggests, will not be about to alter anytime quickly, regardless of him being a Hindu from India.Parag Agrawal appears to have defended himself again then, by saying the road was not of his personal making, however was used throughout a gig by a Muslim comic named Asif Mandvi.@Joylita I used to be quoting Asif Mandvi from The Daily Show. The article you’re studying appears too deep for my present psychological state.— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) October 26, 2010Other tweets have additionally caught the eye of web customers, and Parag Agrawal has gone on a tweet-deletion spree for the reason that announcement of him changing into CEO was made.More proof of the incoming Twitter CEO’s political bias. Parag Agrawal donated to the ACLU so it may sue the previous president. pic.twitter.com/6wldBTMA8O— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 29, 2021Parag Agrawal has additionally raised many eyebrows for his feedback on free speech and the primary modification. In an interview about ‘misinformation’ with MIT Technology Review final yr, Agrawal stated “Our 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. The kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”#ParagAgrawal, Our new #Twitter Indian CEO 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/BD6UjWx876— Vaan (@SavageLeeCoop) November 29, 2021There’s A Hell lot of a stuff to be deleted..😁 pic.twitter.com/Y5lSQ038y4— Jr.Dixit ࿗ 🇮🇳 || Your Rihansh (@jrdx_24) November 29, 2021During the current Durga Puja violence towards Hindus in Bangladesh, Twitter had shut down the accounts of ISKCONBangladesh (@iskconbdh) and BangladeshHinduUnity Council (@unitycouncilbd). These handles have been one of many few influential handles which uncovered the on-ground brutality confronted by Hindus in Bangladesh.Also learn: Twitter silences Bangladeshi Hindu voices as Islamists rape and killAs reported by the TFI, Durga Puja, the largest Hindu competition to be celebrated in Bangladesh, got here to an abrupt and violent finish on October 13, when Islamists’ mobs ravaged the Hindu pandals and mandaps, desecrating the vigrahas and creating chaos by killing 4 folks and leaving lots of injured.While Twitter presents itself as an advocate of free speech, promoter of non-violence, and non-political organisation in ideas, in actuality, it acts precisely reverse to what it represents itself to be. The reality is it reveres in political interventionism, and silences the voices of those that it doesn’t like. While the Taliban, one of the derided terrorist organisations on the planet has an lively Twitter account, Donald Trump, former president of the USA has been banned from Twitter. One hoped that with an India CEO on the helm of affairs, issues would take a flip for the higher, however that actually doesn’t appear to be a chance now.