Jack Dorsey breaks his silence on Twitter's decision to ban Trump after Capitol riots

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• Jack Dorsey broke his silence Wednesday on Twitter's decision to permanently ban President Donald Trump.
• Dorsey called it "the right decision for Twitter" amid "an extraordinary and untenable" circumstances, but said a ban was a "failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation" and that could set a "dangerous" precedent.
• In the series of tweets, Dorsey also advocated for more open and decentralized approaches to developing social media standards, citing Bitcoin as an example of a technology "not controlled or influenced by any single individual."
• Twitter, Facebook, and Snap indefinitely banned Trump after he incited rioters at the US Capitol last week, while Apple, Google, and Amazon all cut ties with far-right social media upstart Parler, reigniting debates over the balance between speech and public safety.
• Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday for "incitement of insurrection," related to last week's Capitol riots.
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