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> Mueller didn't press charges Fun fact: Mueller had no ability to press charges. He made it clear that it was up to Congress, and would only go as far as to s

> Mueller didn't press charges Fun fact: Mueller had no ability to press charges. He made it clear that it was up to Congress, and would only go as far as to say that "we can't say he didn't obstruct justice", but that it was up to Congress to investigate.

anon291 4y ago
Simple question: by explicitly deciding to censor the hunter biden story, did twitter and facebook prevent americans from learning data that may have changed their vote? The Mueller investigation and its results were widely reported on and disseminated by all media, so it's not equivalent at all. Americans can and did make up their mind regarding that issue.
- krapp 4y ago
  Simple answer: probably not. Everything Trumpists were claiming - that the laptop contained evidence of the stolen election, that it contained Biden's child porn stash, evidence he created COVID with Fauci, whatever - was obvious misinformation and character assassination, an attempt to repeat the effect of the DNC leaks with Hillary Clinton in 2016, where just the implications of nefarious dealings and "smoking guns" were enough to suppress Democratic Party turnout, or split the vote. The actual story, such as it was, was and remains the nothingest of nothingburgers, and it's doubtful many people, much less enough people to swing the election in Trump's favor, would have cared. Evidence to this effect can be observed in that, after the fact, it hasn't created a backlash of outrage among Democrats. They do hate Biden for a number of reasons, but not for anything in hindsight related to the laptop. Plus, it's absurd to imply that Twitter and Facebook alone comprised the only sources of information or discussion about the laptop, and that Americans were unaware of the story for it having been censored on those platforms. Despite that, it never actually left public discussion as far as I was aware. The laptop failed to gain traction under its own terms, not because it was suppressed by the government.
  - anon291 4y ago
    You're being disingenuous here, and blinded by your own partisanship. Both this story and the Mueller investigation (and whatever other inquiries into Trump) deserve scrutiny in the public eye. It is not absurd to think that Twitter and Facebook, two massive media companies with well-known connections to the democratic party, are major sources of information and huge multiplying factors in the spread of information about a lot of news. > The laptop failed to gain traction under its own terms, not because it was suppressed by the government. Simply not true, given that the man is under active FBI investigation.

anon291 4y ago

Simple question: by explicitly deciding to censor the hunter biden story, did twitter and facebook prevent americans from learning data that may have changed their vote? The Mueller investigation and its results were widely reported on and disseminated by all media, so it's not equivalent at all. Americans can and did make up their mind regarding that issue.

krapp 4y ago
Simple answer: probably not. Everything Trumpists were claiming - that the laptop contained evidence of the stolen election, that it contained Biden's child porn stash, evidence he created COVID with Fauci, whatever - was obvious misinformation and character assassination, an attempt to repeat the effect of the DNC leaks with Hillary Clinton in 2016, where just the implications of nefarious dealings and "smoking guns" were enough to suppress Democratic Party turnout, or split the vote. The actual story, such as it was, was and remains the nothingest of nothingburgers, and it's doubtful many people, much less enough people to swing the election in Trump's favor, would have cared. Evidence to this effect can be observed in that, after the fact, it hasn't created a backlash of outrage among Democrats. They do hate Biden for a number of reasons, but not for anything in hindsight related to the laptop. Plus, it's absurd to imply that Twitter and Facebook alone comprised the only sources of information or discussion about the laptop, and that Americans were unaware of the story for it having been censored on those platforms. Despite that, it never actually left public discussion as far as I was aware. The laptop failed to gain traction under its own terms, not because it was suppressed by the government.
- anon291 4y ago
  You're being disingenuous here, and blinded by your own partisanship. Both this story and the Mueller investigation (and whatever other inquiries into Trump) deserve scrutiny in the public eye. It is not absurd to think that Twitter and Facebook, two massive media companies with well-known connections to the democratic party, are major sources of information and huge multiplying factors in the spread of information about a lot of news. > The laptop failed to gain traction under its own terms, not because it was suppressed by the government. Simply not true, given that the man is under active FBI investigation.