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Twitter Bans Sharing Photos, Videos 'Without Consent' on CEO Parag Agrawal's First Day

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Just one day after Jack Dorsey was replaced as the CEO of Twitter by the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal, the platform has banned the sharing of any images or videos of people without their explicit consent. The far-left company stated:  “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”

Twitter has banned the sharing of photos and videos of people without their consent, stating that: “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”

The company added that it would try to “assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service.”

Twitter previously banned the sharing of certain types of private information without permission, such as a person’s home address, identity documents such as government-issued IDs and social security numbers, financial account information, etc.

But now it has added to this banned list, “NEW: media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted.”
Twitter ended its statement saying:

Feeling safe on Twitter is different for everyone, and our teams are constantly working to understand and address these needs. We know our work will never be done, and we will continue to invest in making our product and policies more robust and transparent to continue to earn the trust of the people using our service.

The move comes just one day after Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of the company and was replaced by the firm’s CTO Parag Agrawal as CEO. Dorsey stated at the time: “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders.”

It appears that the company is ready to move on, in an even more heavy-handed speech limiting and censorship-focused direction.

Read more at Twitter’s official blog here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address [email protected]

Jim Banks Calls to Oppose Funding Bills that Do Not Address Inflation, Border Crisis

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Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said in a statement Monday that Republicans should oppose any funding bill that fails to address President Joe Biden’s crises, such as inflation, open borders, and the soaring debt.

“The border crisis, the inflation crisis, the supply chain crisis and the government debt crisis—each of the crises facing our nation today can be traced back to specific policies pursued by Democrats. We can’t give Biden a green light to continue on this destructive path,” Banks, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), said as the House will likely vote by the end of the week.

The Hoosier conservative contended that voting for a continuing resolution (CR) to extend government funding would only continue to further the Biden agenda.

“Republicans should stand up for working American families and oppose any funding bills that don’t include measures to reverse these man-made crises,” Banks remarked “A vote on the continuing resolution is a vote for the Biden agenda.”

Congress faces increasing government deadlines ahead of the new year.

Biden’s Democrat-led majority must pass a government funding bill, a bill to address the debt ceiling, pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), pass the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better, among other issues.

The must-pass items such as passing a CR before the December 3 deadline and the government funding bill could likely stall momentum for the Build Back Better Act, which passed through the House recently.

House Democrats will likely pass legislation to fund the government through late January, potentially January 21 or 28.

Banks has also slammed the Democrats for passing the Build Back Better Act.

He said in a statement after the November 19 vote, “Republicans should stand up for working American families and oppose any funding bills that don’t include measures to reverse these man-made crises. A vote on the continuing resolution is a vote for the Biden agenda.”

Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.

Hedge fund billionaire warns there's a 30% chance US will be engaged in 'war' in the next 5 years due to political, economic 'vulnerability'

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Renowned hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio — who famously predicted the 2008 financial crisis — is sharing alarming concerns once again about the state of play in the United States. But this time, he says, America is not only in danger of economic hardship, but war.

What did he say?

“No empire lasts forever,” he told Forbes during a recent interview. “Right now, money and credit and how it’s behaving are affecting the financial markets, it’s affecting inflation.”

The news outlet and the investor were discussing his latest book, “The Changing World Order: How and Why Nations Succeed and Fail,” out Nov. 30, when the conversation turned grim. Dalio began warning that the confluence of America’s rising debt and income disparity alongside China’s meteoric rise on the world state may soon put the U.S. in great peril.

“The last time those three things happened was in the 1930 to 1945 period,” Dalio explained. “When they happen together, it’s a very telling story.”

“Dalio believes there’s a 30% chance that the U.S. will enter into a major ‘civil-war-type’ conflict within the next five years,” Forbes reported.

The outlet noted that while other countries are facing similar challenges, America appears “especially vulnerable.”

“It’s very important that we deal with this now,” Dalio remarked. “We can have a type of civil war or international war based on how we are behaving with each other and our financial conditions.”

What else?

Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, reportedly drew the inferences from his newly-developed “health index,” which is featured in his new book. The system “rates around a dozen nations on 18 different factors ranging from debt burdens and economic output to military strength and innovation.”

Though the 18 factors provided a more complete picture, Dalio appears to focus in on the three elements mentioned above when making the dire prediction.

Forbes said Dalio also highlighted the U.S.’s “increased conflict and polarization due to widening wealth gaps.”

Anything else?

The news comes as the U.S. continues to experience the effects of soaring inflation under the Biden administration. In October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the year-over-year rise in the consumer price index had reached its highest level in over 30 years.

In the meantime, the country battles a supply chain crisis and labor shortages. The economic downturn is one reason a majority of Americans believe the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction.

All the while, China appears to be gaining on the U.S. in terms of global wealth and influence. A “national balance sheet” study published this month claimed that China has overtaken the U.S. as the wealthiest nation worldwide.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal: 'Our Role Is Not to Be Bound by the First Amendment'

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In an interview last year, the incoming CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, made it clear that free speech is not a priority for the company, and that his platform would not be “bound” by the First Amendment. Agrawal said: “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.”

Agrawal, formerly Chief Technology Officer of the social media company, was announced as the successor to Jack Dorsey earlier today, following the latter’s decision to step down as CEO.

In an interview with the MIT Technology Review last year, Agrawal said that Twitter no longer considered free speech to be an area of focus.

“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,” said Agrawal. “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.”

Agrawal said that the priority of the company was “directing” people’s attention to tweets that served “healthy” conversations.

“One of the changes today that we see is speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.”

“The scarce commodity today is attention. There’s a lot of content out there. A lot of tweets out there, not all of it gets attention, some subset of it gets attention. And so increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content and that sort of, is, is, a struggle that we’re working through in terms of how we make sure these recommendation systems that we’re building, how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.”

As Breitbart News previously reported, Agrawal has also repeated statements on race attacking white people.

“If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists,” tweeted Agrawal in 2010.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal: 'Why Should I Distinguish Between White People and Racists?'

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Incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who will shortly replace Jack Dorsey as head of the far-left social media company, uncritically repeated a quote in 2010 suggesting that there should be no need to “distinguish between white people and racists.”

“If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists,” tweeted Agrawal, in quotes. It is unclear who he was quoting.

While anti-white racism has become common in many U.S. institutions, including its top corporations, Agrawal made his comment in 2010 — years before the Black Lives Matter movement would arrive to push American corporations even further towards the left on issues of race.

CANNES, FRANCE - JUNE 21: Co-chair / founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey attends the ' #SheInspiresMe: Twitter celebrates female voices & visionaries ' Event at Cannes Lions on June 21, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Francois Durand/Getty Images for Twitter)

CANNES, FRANCE – JUNE 21: Co-chair / founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey attends the ‘ #SheInspiresMe: Twitter celebrates female voices & visionaries ‘ Event at Cannes Lions on June 21, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Francois Durand/Getty Images for Twitter)

Relatively unknown in Silicon Valley until now, Agrawal was announced as Jack Dorsey’s successor shortly after the Twitter co-founder announced he would step down from his role after a six-year stint as its CEO.

Dorsey, who presided over the company’s shift from what his predecessor called “the free speech wing of the free speech party” to a platform that censors conservatives on a regular basis, including the banning of President Trump, has often been denounced by conservatives.

Yet close observers of Twitter’s internal politics, including its former employees, have observed that the real engine of censorship inside the company was not Dorsey himself, but the “trust and safety” department, which sets censorship policies for the company.

The “trust and safety” department became increasingly influential as the media pushed for more social media censorship of conservatives. In 2020, Politico ran a gushing profile of trust and safety global lead Vijaya Gadde, portraying her as the driving force behind the policies that censored Donald Trump.

Agrawal appears to have similar priorities. In an interview with the MIT Technology Review last year, while he was CTO of the company, Agrawal said free speech was no longer a focus for the company.

“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,” said Agrawal.

“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.”

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.