New Twitter rules, CEO Parag Agrawal signal social media giant still doesn't understand freedom of speech

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned from his post this week and replacement Parag Agrawal was named to the job. Questions immediately circulated over what that would mean for speech on Twitter.

Twitter has been uniquely bad at assessing situations in the past and adding another layer of difficulty is a bad idea. 

In an interview with MIT Technology review last year, Agrawal said, "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 toward 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."