Posted on 12/06/2022 10:28:10 AM PST by bitt
The Twitter Files released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
This was a woefully stupid decision. The New York Post’s account was suspended for two weeks for the offense of coming up with a scoop that we are still talking about and that will surely play a large role in upcoming GOP investigations into Biden family corruption.
That’s the kind of thing that newspapers should get awards for; Twitter thought it should get punished for it.
But the Twitter officials caught up in the progressive bubble that caused them to censor first, ask questions later — all in the name of “safety,” of course — weren’t the most blameworthy actors in this episode.
That dishonor belongs to the former intelligence officials who put out a widely cited, deliberately misleading letter suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. It muddied the discussion over the laptop and gave Joe Biden a handy tool to try to deflect the laptop story.
These former officials knew what they were doing, traded on their public service for a tawdry political purpose and have by and large demonstrated no remorse.
Even the former global head of trust and safety at Twitter — who sounds like he just came from a sit-in at a university president’s office demanding the disinvitation of a right-wing speaker from campus — has said the company shouldn’t have suppressed the Hunter Biden story.
Amazingly, the former officials, once entrusted with some of the most sensitive powers and roles in the US government, aren’t as responsible and accountable as a social media functionary from woke central casting. As a sheer matter of public accountability, their disgraceful performance should be one focus of
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I agree. The twitter censors should only get a few years in prison, whereas the Intel community liars should get 50 years to life.
Also keep in mind Twitter uses foreign nationals to censor people. That is 100% foreign involvement in our election.
Damn...
How do we fire entire government agencies. The FBI should be disbanded and started all over again
10% for the broad with the glasses!
OUR GOVERNMENT!
What you will hear in the coming weeks and months is this: The message they signed stated that it had “the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.”
You have to be careful when listening to weasels; they speak with weasel words.
bump
If this is how our 'intelligence' goons act when we can see them - think how the little sh*ts act behind the cover of secrecy. Someone needs to take a long hard look at this and figure out why 'intelligence' feels it's their right to steal power from the American people and destroy OUR right to choose OUR own leaders. Effing American version of the thuggy KGB not trusting Russian voter either.
bttt
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