Dnarever wrote on Dec 5
th, 2022 at 2:33pm:
Frank wrote on Dec 5
th, 2022 at 12:28pm:
The Democrat Party colluded with Twitter to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election.
And with FB, Google, NTY, CNN, NPR etc, etc, etc.
A
nothing burger.
A few facts about that.
1. The trump team also had twitter stories removed in the same way.
2. The Items the Democrats
asked to be removed were items that were in breach of twitter policy and should have been removed anyway, they were basically nude pictured of Hunter.
In short it is a nothing story.
The unique, wholly original voice of duckwittery!! ^^^^^
Glenn Greenwald
The reason these people insist Taibbi's story is trivial is they will not and cannot recognize any scandalous or improper behavior by leading Dem politicians. Ask them to name any. Any critique of leading Dems is automatically, to them, a fraud, a "
nothingburger." They're Dems.
Ecclesiasticus44
Everything you need to know about the people declaring “
nothingburger” on Taibbi is that they say with a straight face “lol
he thinks that 99% of Twitter employee donations going to Democrats is somehow evidence of bias”
Konstantin Kisin
Absolutely fascinating reading the critical replies:
1. They overwhelmingly use the same language "
nothingburger", "PR for billionaire" etc. It's legit NPC territory.
2. They all deliberately misrepresent the issue. It's not about the First Amendment. The question is: does the company which operates the digital public square get to put a thumb on the scales in the middle of an election? I couldn't give a poo about Hunter Biden's drug and sex binges. He seems like a deeply troubled human being that deserves compassion and pity. Doesn't mean he isn't acting like a scumbag but his immorality isn't relevant. The NY Post story credibly alleged financial links between HB and JB in relation to HB's obviously corrupt dealings in Ukraine and China.
Suppressing that story in the run-up to an election was election interference EVEN IF IT WAS FALSE. It is not the job of Twitter to adjudicate the factual accuracy of newspaper stories.
3. If you're one of these NPC types (like ducksit, Mustaphaken, gweggy tujd eg al) conduct a simple thought experiment: imagine that on the eve of the 2024 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the New York Times publishes a story about Donald Trump Jr. being a crackhead, prostitute user and involved in shady dealings in foreign countries with the allegation that Trump Sr is involved. And Elon Musk suppresses it. See it now?
4. They deliberately ignore the obvious and deeply troubling collusion between "former intelligence officers", the mainstream media and Big Tech, whereby "former intelligence officers" brazenly lied that the story was Russian misinformation, the mainstream media pushed their lies and helped Big Tech to justify their unprecedented meddling in the electoral process.
5. They also ignore the consequences. Whether you think the Hunter Biden laptop story should have affected how people voted, we know from subsequent polling (and common sense) that had voters been fully aware of the story some would have made a different voting decision. Pretending this is a "
nothingburger" story about "Hunter Biden's dick pics" isn't persuasive to anyone looking at this objectively. It's in the interests of everyone, left, right, up and down, to roll back the incestuous collusion between government, corporate media and Big Tech. You have to be absolutely blinded by partisanship not to see this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1599412760474894336