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The Twitter files (Matt Taibbi's installments

Integrityrespec said:
And where is the verification of that claim?
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We are discussing Matt Taibbi's Twitter Files. It's #10 in that installment, and is as verified as anything else in his tweets that are the subject of this thread.
ttwtt78640 said:
I have no idea what was in (Tweet?) “#22”.
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Is it too much to expect someone to have read a few tweets in a thread about those tweets? If you don't know, it's pretty easy to check.
ttwtt78640 said:
I’m not sure what your point is. Is it OK for Twitter to censor discussion of topic X so long as they do so only on Twitter?
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Yes, Twitter can "censor" what it wants, and it really doesn't even have to have a reason. It's that whole 1A, freedom thing that has the right wingers all confused. Just think of DP - like that. If your post gets taken down, or you get booted, what's your recourse? Oh, yeah, nothing!
 
ttwtt78640 said:
See post #343.
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Where you continue to kick to new goal posts after you abandoned the old ones without comment or defense? 🤪

Matt Taibbi, Tweet #22 in the series you haven't even bothered to read, apparently.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem..."

Are you dismissing the lack of evidence as evidence of corruption, because we all know know the FBI is corrupt so knows not to create the evidence we need to establish a link, thus proving the conspiracy and corruptness of the FBI!!
 
RaleBulgarian said:
Nonsensical assumption.

That user content isn’t flagged/censored/deleted by a platform operator only means the content does not violate platform rules.

Nothing more.
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Or it's one of 500 million Tweets THAT DAY that didn't come to the attention of any moderator and didn't get flagged in the automatic/AI algorithms.
 
JasperL said:
Yes, Twitter can "censor" what it wants, and it really doesn't even have to have a reason. It's that whole 1A, freedom thing that has the right wingers all confused. Just think of DP - like that. If your post gets taken down, or you get booted, what's your recourse? Oh, yeah, nothing!
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OK, then that’s not even pretending that Twitter should be an open (non-politically biased) platform. In that case what difference (to you) would it make if they censored based on outside requests and refused to disclose who made those requests? Your position boils down to a mind over matter situation: if you don’t mind then it doesn’t matter. HAND
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK, then that’s not even pretending that Twitter should be an open (non-politically biased) platform. In that case what difference (to you) would it make if they censored based on outside requests and refused to disclose who made those requests? Your position boils down to a mind over matter situation: if you don’t mind then it doesn’t matter. HAND
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You keep jumping the shark. Must get tiresome simply whipping right past everything to WHATEVER.

It appears you just don't care how transparent it is because it is literally every single post. Trump's shamelessness has really taken root.
 
JasperL said:
Where you continue to kick to new goal posts after you abandoned the old ones without comment or defense? 🤪

Matt Taibbi, Tweet #22 in the series you haven't even bothered to read, apparently.

22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem..."

Are you dismissing the lack of evidence as evidence of corruption, because we all know know the FBI is corrupt so knows not to create the evidence we need to establish a link, thus proving the conspiracy and corruptness of the FBI!!
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OK, current government agents warn Twitter and Facebook of a ‘coming soon’ (election related?) foreign misinformation operation and (completely coincidentally?) 51 former government agents say that the Hunter Biden laptop has the earmarks of a foreign misinformation operation. I wonder how anyone could imagine that was anything other than pure coincidence?
 
redbeer said:
You seem confused or misinformed. Remember it was people from the Biden campaign and the DNC who contacted Twitter and TOLD them who to censor and ban.....this did not generate within the company itself, but from leftist sources outside the company.
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Ok so where is the evidence that they were compelled or legally bound?
 
eohrnberger said:
And just imagine. This is presidential election immediately after the 2016 presidential, where we saw:
  • We have seen a Democrat political campaign demanding and financing a fabricated hoax against a political opposition presidential campaign, which the political propaganda media took great joys in flogging on for years without evidence
  • We have seen a Democrat president briefed of these plans and either ignored that planned hoax and certainly didn't prevent that hoax
  • We have seen an obviously corrupt federal bureaucracy which furthered that same hoax at every turn (how many times were the FISA warrants extended?)
  • We have seen the premier federal criminal investigation agency extend the life of this hoax and its investigation beyond the internal conclusions that there wasn't anything there
We have seen all this sum up into damaging the institution of the presidency and damaging that president in particular, a legally and legitimately elected president mind you (what happened to transition of power?), on simply political motives

The above actions pose a far greater and real and present threat to US Democracy than anything Democrats / Liberals / Progressives / Leftists are claiming in their political propaganda gaslighting with their political propagandist media accomplices.

Do Democrats always politically compete by using the most dirtiest, most underhanded, and most damaging to the nation and the US Democratic Republic, tricks imaginable?
They've established a track record of doing so for at least 8 years, and probably more which hasn't come to light.

Which dirtiest and most underhanded political tricks will the Democrats sink to in the next presidential election? Are these really the people anyone would want to give political power to?
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Very well stated! (y)
 
ttwtt78640 said:
What platform rules did discussing the Hunter Biden laptop violate?
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The New York Post, two weeks before the ‘20 presidential election, ran a story based on information obtained from a duplicate hard drive provided by Rudy Giuliani, after being made aware of the laptop’s existence/owner by Steve Bannon.

“the shop owner says, he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello.

Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.”
nypost.com

Exclusive | Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad

Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine in…
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The contents of the copied hard drive had not been verified by any qualified computer expert.

The FBI asked Twitter to watch for “hack-and-leak operations’’ by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden.

Given the fact that the content of the copied hard drive had not been verified, that it was given to the NY Post by Rudy Giuliani, and that the ‘20 presidential election was just weeks away, Twitter abso-****ing-lately did the right thing by voluntarily censoring user content related to the purported contents.

It is beyond ridiculous that anyone would actually argue that Twitter should’ve allowed it’s users to broadcast the unverified, potentially devastating to a presidential candidate’s campaign, contents.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK, current government agents warn Twitter and Facebook of a ‘coming soon’ (election related?) foreign misinformation operation and (completely coincidentally?) 51 former government agents say that the Hunter Biden laptop has the earmarks of a foreign misinformation operation. I wonder how anyone could imagine that was anything other than pure coincidence?
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You don't even try to address my points.... It's whack a mole.

But here's what I don't get. The Trump government warns Twitter and it's a problem for Joe Biden, private citizen, if the Trump government somehow encourages Twitter to take down Hunter's laptop story, that wasn't censored by Joe Biden, private citizen, but the Trump government? How does that work exactly?

ttwtt78640 said:
None. They were willing participants with what they saw as a good excuse to help get Biden elected.
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See, you still do not get it. If they were "willing participants" to help get Biden elected, they were exercising a right protected by the 1A to be biased. I don't know why that won't sink in with you guys.

Is it a PR problem, or something the Trump campaign didn't like because their "October Surprise" didn't work? Maybe.... Be as mad as you want about it.
 
tacomancer said:
Which is possible but they were a private entity in that scenario.
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OK, if the reverse was done (i.e. Twitter or DP started censoring posts and banning users critical of republicants) would you be fine with that?
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK, if the reverse was done (i.e. Twitter or DP started censoring posts and banning users critical of republicants) would you be fine with that?
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I probably would get bored and leave.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
OK, if the reverse was done (i.e. Twitter or DP started censoring posts and banning users critical of republicants) would you be fine with that?
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You're describing Parler and Truth Social, are you not?
 
tacomancer said:
Ok so where is the evidence that they were compelled or legally bound?
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It's what liberals do.....they were happy to comply with their wishes to help Biden get elected, so they censored stories, posts, and banned people that could be seen as detrimental towards Biden. The contacts were numerous and the censorship went unabated for some time.....the liberals were happy. Now, it's all about probable deniability, lol.
 
redbeer said:
It's what liberals do.....they were happy to comply with their wishes to help Biden get elected, so they censored stories, posts, and banned people that could be seen as detrimental towards Biden. The contacts were numerous and the censorship went unabated for some time.....the liberals were happy. Now, it's all about probable deniability, lol.
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It is quite possible that this is what the employees of twitter preferred.
 
tacomancer said:
It is quite possible that this is what the employees of twitter preferred.
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So, they censored true stories, blocked true posts, and banned innocent people.......wow, what a great political party.
 
redbeer said:
So, they censored true stories, blocked true posts, and banned innocent people.......wow, what a great political party.
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It remains to be seen if they are true. Right now it’s just rumors and speculation that hasn’t really gone anywhere in the 3 or so years it’s been investigated.
 
tacomancer said:
It remains to be seen if they are true. Right now it’s just rumors and speculation that hasn’t really gone anywhere in the 3 or so years it’s been investigated.
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And you are STILL denying, lol.....these are truly lowlife pos', who used their position for political gain through improper, unethical ways.....all those who used Twitter in such a manner shouldn't be within 500 miles of elected office. Prison would do them justice.
 
redbeer said:
And you are STILL denying, lol.....these are truly lowlife pos', who used their position for political gain through improper, unethical ways.....all those who used Twitter in such a manner shouldn't be within 500 miles of elected office. Prison would do them justice.
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You seem upset about this.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, and they’re upset about losing that political power and are seeking ways to get it back.
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If you mean liberals, (as this seems to fit the narrative), then I’m not even worried about it. The GOP isn’t attracting young voters and their median age keeps increasing.
 
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