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Jack Dorsey to Musk — “A new platform is needed. It can't be a company.”

Twitter's co-founder texts Musk his vision of a decentralized, open-source protocol funded by a foundation rather than a company.

Dorsey: Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left. Musk: Ok Dorsey: I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can't have an advertising model. Otherwise you have surface area that governments and advertisers will try to influence and control. If it has a centralized entity behind it, it will be attacked. Musk: Super interesting idea