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Elon Musk condemns Twitter censorship of NY Post’s Hunter laptop story: ‘Obviously incredibly inappropriate’

ClaraD said:
the big guy might be God for all you know.
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If the media would have held a few peoples feet to the fire like they do when it's a story about, say, an Ivanka Trump clothing line, instead of going overboard to NOT cover it, maybe we'd know?
 
WillyPete said:
So when a couple wants a cake and the cake chef has pet peeve against them, it's fine for them to arbitrarily deny service.

But when a private corporate posts and enforces their own rules in a (debatably) arbitrary manner, that's a big problem?

Is it a big guy/little guy thing, or do people honestly not see that it's Twitter's platform to do with as they please within the law, and they have no legal obligation to cater to their wishes?
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When the "private corporate" has 77 million user's, plus it's viewers, favors one political party, during an election that was decided by 7 million votes, yeah, it's a "big problem".
 
mrdeltoid said:
When the "private corporate" has 77 million user's, plus it's viewers, favors one political party, during an election that was decided by 7 million votes, yeah, it's a "big problem".
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Bingo

That Twitter lawyer was on Joe Rogans podcast and she just came across so bad…The fact she practiced censorship of a major news story is telling in itself.
 
mrdeltoid said:
When the "private corporate" has 77 million user's, plus it's viewers, favors one political party, during an election that was decided by 7 million votes, yeah, it's a "big problem".
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Ok, so it is a size thing, and suppressing the rights of some corporations is your solution.

We've had "too big to fail", and now here's "too big to have rights."
 
WillyPete said:
Ok, so it is a size thing, and suppressing the rights of some corporations is your solution.

We've had "too big to fail", and now here's "too big to have rights."
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No, it's a, if you get government protection, you can't suppress opposition to said government "thing". How does a citizen buying twitter "suppressing their rights, anyway?? :confused:
 
Schism said:
If Hunter is indicted, the media's collusion to suppress evidence should be considered a conspiracy.

People go to prison every day for covering up the crimes of friends, partners, and associates.
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Even if it happened, somebody not telling you whats going on is not suppressing evidence. Sorry, but you dont have either the right or the need to know everything you're curious about.
 
mrdeltoid said:
No, it's a, if you get government protection, you can't suppress opposition to said government "thing". How does a citizen buying twitter "suppressing their rights, anyway?? :confused:
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If that's spelled out in the protections you reference, then I'd sure like to see that.

The rest is soup.
 
American said:
www.foxnews.com

Elon Musk condemns Twitter censorship of NY Post’s Hunter laptop story: ‘Obviously incredibly inappropriate’

New Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted that censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden story was "inappropriate" and received a wave of support from conservatives on Twitter.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com

Nahhh, no election interference here. Let the leftwing hypocrisy, lying and deflection begin...
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If/when Elon takes over he's allowed to let CT sites like the NYPost spread as much disinformation and conspiracy theories as they like. If Elon wants Twitter to be stupid, that's his prerogative.
 
Cardinal said:
If/when Elon takes over he's allowed to let CT sites like the NYPost spread as much disinformation and conspiracy theories as they like. If Elon wants Twitter to be stupid, that's his prerogative.
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You mean as much as the ministry of truth will allow.
 
The Left seems to be going out of their minds now that Twitter wants Free Speech, and is not running cover for the left as they did....
 

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Jack Fabulous said:
If the media would have held a few peoples feet to the fire like they do when it's a story about, say, an Ivanka Trump clothing line, instead of going overboard to NOT cover it, maybe we'd know?
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Does the NY Post have such shitty viewership that they need twitter to get a story read?
 
trouble13 said:
You mean as much as the ministry of truth will allow.
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If that’s what you consider Twitter under Elon’s rule to be, so be it.
 
NoMoreDems-Reps said:
The Left seems to be going out of their minds now that Twitter wants Free Speech, and is not running cover for the left as they did....
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No the left doesn't seem like that. That's just your hyper-partisanship beaking off nonsense.
As usual.
 
trouble13 said:
We now have a ministry of truth to regulate people like Musk
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I repeat, what the hell are you talking about? Do you even know?
 
Grand Mal said:
I repeat, what the hell are you talking about? Do you even know?
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What are you not understanding? Are you unaware that Beta Joe has formed a ministry of truth to serve him as fact checkers
 
trouble13 said:
What are you not understanding? Are you unaware that Beta Joe has formed a ministry of truth to serve him as fact checkers
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Minstry of truth? Do you understand that reference?
 
BlueTex said:
Does the NY Post have such shitty viewership that they need twitter to get a story read?
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Twitter would have helped.

Facebook, Instagram, Google, Yahoo, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Reuters, NYT, Washington Post, LA Times, virtually EVER SINGLE "NEWS" OUTLET other than Fox... probably would have helped more. This story was deliberately and strategically contained to "right wing outlets only".

Utterly. ****ing. Shameless.
 
Schism said:
Actually it depends on the state, which is besides the point. From a moral perspective, it was dishonest for the media to not just bury a story, but to come out with a story that the evidence is "disinformation" or "Russian propaganda". Further, it has been shown in polls that Biden voters would have not voted for Biden had they known the truth.

Supposedly Democrats claim the higher moral ground, while in practice they support and defend lying for political advantage.
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I note you are moving the goal posts from "legal obligation" to "moral perspective". But that's fine, we can talk about the moral perspective. The fact is that there has STILL not been anything concrete related to the Hunter Biden laptop. You have a few cherry-picked emails vaguely implying... something. No actual evidence of government corruption, no indictments. And no chain of custody so everyone and their mother has had an opportunity to tamper with it. It's actually kind of funny because the scraps that Giuliani and Co have decided to release are probably the absolute worst they could find.

And that's today. At the time, you had a blind computer repair guy who claimed he found all sorts of obvious criminal shit (I think I remember child porn being mentioned) on a laptop, turned it over to the FBI, and was ignored. In the middle of an election, coming from trash like the New York Post, it's an obviously fabricated smear job. If the FBI had the laptop and ignored it, that's also a pretty good sign to reputable news. The decision makers at major media companies had plenty of good reasons to ignore and bury the "story". There is no moral dilemma here. You disagree? Well tough shit. Start your own media company if you want your opinions on these sorts of things to matter.

It's a case of the "boy who cried wolf". Trumpers have been spewing endless conspiracy theories since the birther fiasco. People eventually learn to stop listening to the nonsense.
 
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