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> The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obv
by freejazz 4y ago
> The only real revelation here seems to be that there existed some internal debate whether or not blocking the story was a good idea, which seems...kind of obvious?
You'd think it'd be obvious but so many people seem to be convinced that Twitter was the seat of wokeness and the moderation team sat on the throne. That there was a debate totally contradicts the characterization Matt is running for.
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoI don’t really see a debate. I see an email listing tweets from “the Biden team” and a response that it’s been taken care of. Must be very cool to be running for president and have a team with a direct censorship line to one of the biggest news proliferation websites in the world. Just lost a few tweets and BAM!
- calgarymicro 4y agoThe tweets in question were naked images of Hunter Biden, which were against Twitter's TOS and would be illegal to circulate in California anyway under the state's revenge porn law. You can literally put the links into archive.org and see for yourself if you want. Taibbi's thread also makes clear that Trump's team had access to the same 'direct censorship line', and that some of their requests were honored too.
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