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Party officials were directly emailing twitter executives, the executives specifically mentioned the "Biden Team", Ro Khanna wasn't necessarily against censorin

Party officials were directly emailing twitter executives, the executives specifically mentioned the "Biden Team", Ro Khanna wasn't necessarily against censoring the story she was upset that Twitter shut down the Trump admin's press secretary account for dm'ing the NY Post Story and that Republicans on the Hill were rightfully so making a big deal out of that. Blatant, let me repeat in caps, BLATANT partisan censoring was happening at Twitter going so far as election interfering which is illegal in the US. More than one smoking gun here and yes this is a huge story. I doubt we'll hear much out of it on CNN/NBC/CBS/ABC oligopolists.

wincy 4y ago
Just so you know Ro Khanna is a man. Also appears to be the representative for a substantial part of the Valley, like Cupertino and San Jose. https://khanna.house.gov/ https://khanna.house.gov/
ryanbrunner 4y ago
> Party officials were directly emailing twitter executives Thinking that this isn't happening, particularly by parties during an election is massively naive. How Twitter responds to it, and whether there was any undue pressure made by those parties would be a scandal, but "VIP account has a direct line to higher ups" is nothing.
- andrew_ 4y ago
  Nothing said by parent suggests that they think this wasn't happening on the regular, or by other administrations. The shark was jumped here.
freejazz 4y ago
Weird how you say it was blatant partisan censorship but ignore that the Trump administration did the same exact thing while they were actually in the executive branch. It's almost like there is something blatantly partisan here going on, but it's not the "censorship"
- remarkEon 4y ago
  Both of these things are bad, yes? If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of Trump's executive direction, does that not count as some kind of 1A violation?
  - belltaco 4y ago
    >If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? If that's the metric when why isn't Fox News and all the right wing media, and online Republican commenters not in-kind donations?
    - remarkEon 4y ago
      Not sure why you're singling out Fox News and "right wing" media here, but I certainly think it's a problem when major networks coordinate coverage with their preferred candidate. That certainly counts as a "service" to me.
  - freejazz 4y ago
    You should be explaining this to the poster I responded to, not me. But, generally, no. I don't think it's a big deal that anyone emails twitter and then twitter's moderation team looks at a post to see if it violates the rules.
  - toofy 4y ago
    > If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? if this is our metric (and it very well could be) then every industry ever needs to be investigated--i guarantee you religions are massively guilty of this. we don't have to look far at all to see churches loudly preaching for one party right now. i guarantee you we'd find all kinds of instances with politicians from oil rich states. and i guarantee you countless other industries will be as well. im sure elon himself has direct lines to many politicians. honestly i think this is a path we should explore with all monied/influential folks and politicians. lets mitigate quid pro quo with these people.
belltaco 4y ago
>Blatant, let me repeat in caps, BLATANT partisan censoring was happening at Twitter going so far as election interfering which is illegal in the US. That's not illegal election interference in the slightest.

wincy 4y ago

Just so you know Ro Khanna is a man. Also appears to be the representative for a substantial part of the Valley, like Cupertino and San Jose. https://khanna.house.gov/ https://khanna.house.gov/

ryanbrunner 4y ago

> Party officials were directly emailing twitter executives Thinking that this isn't happening, particularly by parties during an election is massively naive. How Twitter responds to it, and whether there was any undue pressure made by those parties would be a scandal, but "VIP account has a direct line to higher ups" is nothing.

andrew_ 4y ago
Nothing said by parent suggests that they think this wasn't happening on the regular, or by other administrations. The shark was jumped here.

freejazz 4y ago

Weird how you say it was blatant partisan censorship but ignore that the Trump administration did the same exact thing while they were actually in the executive branch. It's almost like there is something blatantly partisan here going on, but it's not the "censorship"

remarkEon 4y ago
Both of these things are bad, yes? If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of Trump's executive direction, does that not count as some kind of 1A violation?
- belltaco 4y ago
  >If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? If that's the metric when why isn't Fox News and all the right wing media, and online Republican commenters not in-kind donations?
  - remarkEon 4y ago
    Not sure why you're singling out Fox News and "right wing" media here, but I certainly think it's a problem when major networks coordinate coverage with their preferred candidate. That certainly counts as a "service" to me.
- freejazz 4y ago
  You should be explaining this to the poster I responded to, not me. But, generally, no. I don't think it's a big deal that anyone emails twitter and then twitter's moderation team looks at a post to see if it violates the rules.
- toofy 4y ago
  > If Twitter was doing all of this at the behest of the Biden Campaign, does that not count as some kind of in-kind donation? if this is our metric (and it very well could be) then every industry ever needs to be investigated--i guarantee you religions are massively guilty of this. we don't have to look far at all to see churches loudly preaching for one party right now. i guarantee you we'd find all kinds of instances with politicians from oil rich states. and i guarantee you countless other industries will be as well. im sure elon himself has direct lines to many politicians. honestly i think this is a path we should explore with all monied/influential folks and politicians. lets mitigate quid pro quo with these people.

belltaco 4y ago

>Blatant, let me repeat in caps, BLATANT partisan censoring was happening at Twitter going so far as election interfering which is illegal in the US. That's not illegal election interference in the slightest.