Posted on 09/13/2021 11:12:52 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed Republican accusations that Twitter violated election laws in October by blocking people from posting links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son Hunter Biden, in a decision that is likely to set a precedent for future cases involving social media sites and federal campaigns.
The F.E.C. determined that Twitter’s actions regarding the Hunter Biden article had been undertaken for a valid commercial reason, not a political purpose, and were thus allowable, according to a document outlining the decision obtained by The New York Times.
The commission’s ruling, which was made last month behind closed doors and is set to become public soon, provides further flexibility to social media giants like Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat to control what is shared on their platforms regarding federal elections.
The suppression of the article about Hunter Biden caused an avalanche of conservative criticism in October and prompted accusations that the tech company was improperly aiding the Biden presidential campaign, including a formal complaint by the Republican National Committee that said Twitter’s actions amounted to an “illegal in-kind contribution” to the campaign.
But the F.E.C. disagreed. The commission said Twitter had “credibly explained” that blocking the article’s distribution was a commercial decision and that the move followed existing policies related to hacked materials, according to the “factual and legal analysis” provided to the parties involved in the complaint.
Twitter actually reversed course within a day of its decision to block distribution of the Hunter Biden article, and its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, has called the initial move a “mistake.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They have Hunter Bidens' laptop with evidence but Twitter (and other platforms) were allowed to block this content from the public during an election.
” in a decision that is likely to set a precedent for future cases involving social media sites and federal campaigns.”
The precedent being that it is okay to block lurid articles that are embarrassing to demonRATs while allowing the same to be posted about conservatives. Yes, that precedent.
Every decision is political.
ALL federal agencies are infested with socialist activists.
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Courts view everything as us versus them, good versus bad.
Everything founding fathers were escaping.
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That’s BS on its face.
There’s LOTS of examples of Twitter allowing “hacked media” to appear on their services when it’s politically expedient.
Like discussing the information from the Parler hacks - never stopped.
But Supreme Court justice chief Roberts said….
1. The materials were not "hacked". The computer repair shop owner was the legal owner of the laptop after it was abandoned by Hunter Biden.
2. Twitter admitted that blocking the article was wrong.
In light of all this, the FEC still ruled that Twitter did nothing wrong?
The FEC are idiots.
“an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son Hunter Biden”
Um, excuse me, new york times?
“distribution was a commercial decision and that the move followed existing policies related to hacked materials,”
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Nothing was “hacked.”
The idiot Hunter turned over ownership his laptops to the company servicing them when he never came back to retrieve them.
Reversed course within a day? That’s not what I recall.
From the upcoming book The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power Hardcover by Ben Schreckinger
FTB-——On November 3, Americans did not just elect Joe Biden: They got a package deal. The tight-knit Biden family—siblings, children, in-laws, and beyond—is coming right along with him. They are sure to play a defining role in his presidency, just as they have in every other one of his endeavors.
Inside, you’ll find these and other stories and revelations about the Biden family, including:
Joe’s childhood, the stunning 1972 Senate upset engineered by his sister Valerie
Joe’s early years in the Senate and his role in the creation of the cozy “Delaware Way” of conducting politics
The Biden brothers’ business escapades, including the ’70s rock club rivalry that pitted Jim Biden against Jill’s first husband and ended in a banking scandal
The Delaware lawman who oversaw an FBI investigation into Joe’s 2007 campaign fundraising and now has Hunter in his sights
Hunter’s surprisingly close friendship with his Fox News antagonist, Tucker Carlson
What Steve Bannon really hoped to accomplish by giving the contents of “the Laptop from Hell” to the New York Post
New evidence that sheds light on the authenticity of Hunter’s alleged computer files
Like the Kennedys before them, the Bidens are a tight-knit, idealistic Irish Catholic clan with good looks, dynastic ambitions, and serious personal problems.
As THE BIDENS reveals, the best way to understand Joe Biden—his values, fears, and motives—is to understand his family: Their Irish (and not-so-Irish) roots, their place in the Delaware pecking order, their dodgy business deals, and their personal struggles and triumphs alike.
“The FEC has dismissed….” Stop right there. WHO did this? We have a right to know the names of the bureaucrats who did this. Their names; their backgrounds; how they got their influential positions. Their party affiliations. We did not vote for these hidden executioners. Exposure to sunlight is the best antiseptic. This is not Nazi Germany…yet.
The FEC are not idiots. They are evil and are getting their way. We make a mistake when we think that the left is stupid.
You think you can rely on anything from this illegitimate government?
Joe Biden has “good looks”? Are you looking at the same stumbling senile fool I am?
The Bidens .... and ALL of that ilk.....are Space-Occupying Lesions of a different pathology ...........more of a malignancy, an abscess on the body politic.
Biden’s a creation of Dumb Delaware Democrats......and massive voter fraud.
Biden’s always been a dolt, on the wrong side of every national security issue and foreign policy stance.
He’s always been known to be a liar, pedophile, plagiarist, thief and on the take........AND heads the Biden Crime Family.
Add in his crackhead son........an “earner” in mob parlance.......now a renowned painter /s.
Then there’s drJill......gag.
GWB speechwriter penned a scathing Op-Ed criticizing Biden for repeatedly invoking son Beau’s death.
‘Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV’...........
Beau Biden was a noncombatant lawyer reservist .......he died 15 years ago of brain cancer after returning home from a one year tour as JAG in Iraq.
Biden himself had six draft deferments for school and marriage during the Vietnam War, he never served.
“blocking the article’s distribution was a commercial decision”
Well that’s the problem isn’t it. His “commercial decision” contributed to the success of the stolen election in 2020.
H/t frank ballenger
I’ll buy the books........ written by self-righteous quacks called psychologists and psychiatrists who said we were in danger if Trump were not removed under the 25th Amendment? .......sage scientific diagnoses made entirely from reading AP and watching CNN and MSNBC........ not ever having interviewed or tested Trump.
Where are they?
undertaken for a valid commercial reason And just what reason was that?
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