Activist Deray McKesson says Twitter bought Periscope to help ‘Black Lives Matter’

by SooperMexican

“Black Lives Matter” activist Deray McKesson seems to imply that Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, bought the live-streaming service Periscope in order to help with the BLM protests. He made the comments during an interview with the Texas Tribune Symposium on Race.

Watch below at about the 40:45 minute mark:

Here’s what he said with interviewer Evan Smith:

DERAY: I think what we’ll continue to see is that these tools emerge, y’know, you look at Twitter today, if you remember two years ago, Vibe was it, that was the only way to put video on Twitter. There was no Twitter video, there was no Periscope. It was, we didn’t have any of that.

SMITH: It was like the cotton gin days! But how fast is this stuff moving?

DERAY: It’s incredible, y’know Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter is a friend and we tested Periscope before Twitter bought Periscope, and one of the reasons they bought Periscope was because of the protests, right?

They acknowledged that they needed to get in the space and allow the platform to grow in a way that the world was growing. And we tested Periscope when like 30 people in the world had Periscope.

Wow, must be nice to be friends with the CEO of Twitter and have that kind of say. Meanwhile, conservatives are seeing their accounts be shut down for simply stating right-of-center opinions. Isn’t it somewhat irresponsible for Twitter to be buying up services in order to encourage “Black Lives Matter”? According to the inventors of Periscope, they were inspired by the protests in the Middle East, specifically Turkey:

Beykpour and his co-founder Joe Bernstein came up with the idea for Periscope while traveling abroad in 2013. Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the protests, he couldn’t see them.

“It just occurred to me, there were so many smart phones out there, why wasn’t there a way for me to ask who else was out there what was happening there?” Beykpour explains. 

BUT, we’ve seen that Twitter does the bidding of totalitarian governments at times to shut down their critics – so was Periscope purchased to help Deray and “Black Lives Matter”?

Hmm.

Makes ya wonder.


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