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> Twitter and the US government collude I see everyone saying this while ignoring the timeline. This happened before the 2020 elections. Biden was not preside

> Twitter and the US government collude I see everyone saying this while ignoring the timeline. This happened before the 2020 elections. Biden was not president back then.

chroma 4y ago
Biden himself wasn't an elected official at the time, but many others were. One of Taibbi's tweets shows an email from the DNC requesting that certain tweets be censored.
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- belltaco 4y ago
  DNC is a private organization.
  - chroma 4y ago
    So if the RNC had a hotline to Twitter that they used to censor stuff so their candidates could win more elections, you'd respond in the same manner? They're a private organization.
    - belltaco 4y ago
      I wouldn't claim it was govt interference like you're doing to support a bogus argument.
    - sanderjd 4y ago
      Taibbi's own claims are that both parties and both campaigns had this "hotline" to Twitter.
    - djur 4y ago
      If people were posting revenge porn of Tiffany Trump on Twitter and RNC staffers contacted Twitter to notify them of the offending tweets, I think that would be commendable.
      - UncleMeat 4y ago
        In fact, there were nudes of Melania Trump shared on social media during the 2016 election. These weren't personal but were instead professional photographs. Everywhere I ever saw them they were taken down very very quickly.
    - andreysolsty 4y ago
      It's in TFA: "10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:"
progrus 4y ago
These actions effectively installed Biden as president. There was a poll where an easily-sufficient percentage of respondents said they would have changed their vote if the laptop story hadn’t been suppressed. Someone can probably find it.
- myko 4y ago
  > These actions effectively installed Biden as president. No, the millions of voters who selected him over trump did that. This hit job using hacked iCloud information to post revenge porn of Hunter Biden was not going to change people's votes, it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. Just another Russian hack job.
- djur 4y ago
  The poll showed that 4 out of 5 people who said they had been following the laptop story (i.e., people who already knew about it despite the "censorship") thought that it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that coverage of the story affected the outcome of the election.
  - acdha 4y ago
    That poll of people who closely follow Republican talking points found that they think that more coverage of Republican talking points would help Republicans win elections. It’s not untrue but it’s not telling you anything you didn’t already know. (Note, for example that the poll numbers you read in the NY Post were based on 437 of the original 1,335 respondents because they literally excluded everyone else to get the numbers they wanted to base this story on.)
- Klonoar 4y ago
  Nobody with any realistic sense of reality gives a single shit about Hunter Biden and whatever the hell he did with his life. People voted Trump out because he utterly gutted our country, even when handed layup after layup. Knock it off with this "Biden was installed" shit, jesus christ.
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imgabe 4y ago
Ah yes, Biden the former vice president and 40 year career politician was a political naïf who had no influence whatsoever because he was not in office at the time. Of course.
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  Biden was a person with considerable influence. But that's not the same as "Twitter and the US government collude." If there is anything most closely matching that phrase, it is the examples of reviews done based on information from the Trump team.

> Twitter and the US government collude I see everyone saying this while ignoring the timeline. This happened before the 2020 elections. Biden was not president back then.

chroma 4y ago

Biden himself wasn't an elected official at the time, but many others were. One of Taibbi's tweets shows an email from the DNC requesting that certain tweets be censored.

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belltaco 4y ago
DNC is a private organization.
- chroma 4y ago
  So if the RNC had a hotline to Twitter that they used to censor stuff so their candidates could win more elections, you'd respond in the same manner? They're a private organization.
  - belltaco 4y ago
    I wouldn't claim it was govt interference like you're doing to support a bogus argument.
  - sanderjd 4y ago
    Taibbi's own claims are that both parties and both campaigns had this "hotline" to Twitter.
  - djur 4y ago
    If people were posting revenge porn of Tiffany Trump on Twitter and RNC staffers contacted Twitter to notify them of the offending tweets, I think that would be commendable.
    - UncleMeat 4y ago
      In fact, there were nudes of Melania Trump shared on social media during the 2016 election. These weren't personal but were instead professional photographs. Everywhere I ever saw them they were taken down very very quickly.
  - andreysolsty 4y ago
    It's in TFA: "10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:"

progrus 4y ago

These actions effectively installed Biden as president. There was a poll where an easily-sufficient percentage of respondents said they would have changed their vote if the laptop story hadn’t been suppressed. Someone can probably find it.

myko 4y ago
> These actions effectively installed Biden as president. No, the millions of voters who selected him over trump did that. This hit job using hacked iCloud information to post revenge porn of Hunter Biden was not going to change people's votes, it had nothing to do with Joe Biden. Just another Russian hack job.
djur 4y ago
The poll showed that 4 out of 5 people who said they had been following the laptop story (i.e., people who already knew about it despite the "censorship") thought that it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that coverage of the story affected the outcome of the election.
- acdha 4y ago
  That poll of people who closely follow Republican talking points found that they think that more coverage of Republican talking points would help Republicans win elections. It’s not untrue but it’s not telling you anything you didn’t already know. (Note, for example that the poll numbers you read in the NY Post were based on 437 of the original 1,335 respondents because they literally excluded everyone else to get the numbers they wanted to base this story on.)
Klonoar 4y ago
Nobody with any realistic sense of reality gives a single shit about Hunter Biden and whatever the hell he did with his life. People voted Trump out because he utterly gutted our country, even when handed layup after layup. Knock it off with this "Biden was installed" shit, jesus christ.
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imgabe 4y ago

Ah yes, Biden the former vice president and 40 year career politician was a political naïf who had no influence whatsoever because he was not in office at the time. Of course.

UncleMeat 4y ago
Biden was a person with considerable influence. But that's not the same as "Twitter and the US government collude." If there is anything most closely matching that phrase, it is the examples of reviews done based on information from the Trump team.