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Claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election made by our own intelligence community and parroted by Democrats don't even remotely compare to the outright
by babypuncher 6y ago
Claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election made by our own intelligence community and parroted by Democrats don't even remotely compare to the outright lies Trump and his lackeys are peddling about the 2020 election. You didn't see Hilary Clinton refusing to concede. Her only post-election legal action was asking for recounts in the rust belt. California's AG didn't sue Pennsylvania and Wisconsin asking SCOTUS to throw out ballots they disagreed with.
This is just bad whataboutism.
- betwixthewires 6y agoThis is by the textbook definition not "whataboutism." Your argument distils to "saying something that is true and saying something that is false are clearly not the same thing"; you are basing your argument on your own belief that one is true and one is false. What we are getting at here is, regardless of whether either is true or false, they are fundamentally the same types of claims and yet one is amplified and another is banned.
- babypuncher 6y agoI fail to see how "true information should be promoted, false information should be suppressed" is a controversial statement. I'm not talking about opinions here, just cold hard facts. If someone wandered into one of my communities and actively encouraged people to mix bleach and ammonia, and my users were falling for it, you bet your ass that person would get banned for violating my rules, and I would be making sticky posts warning about the dangers of what that user was promoting. The idea that I can't regulate what goes on in my community because "free speech" is absurd. The same goes for Twitter and YouTube.