This article appears to be misguided apologia or maybe gaslighting. There are some incontrovertible elements to the original story which are more relevant than

This article appears to be misguided apologia or maybe gaslighting. There are some incontrovertible elements to the original story which are more relevant than this attempt to reframe legitimate concerns about the treatment of the story into baseless conspiracy theory. It was news, and Twitter and several others tried to make it into NotNews in a very obvious play. This is what #twitterfiles corroborate. Efforts to downplay or dismiss concerns about this incident are misguided at best and more likely inimical. Since so many folks are trying downplay, muddy, or otherwise shoo this information away with dubious premises, I suspect it’s well beyond misguided. Furthermore the journalists involved in #twitterfiles reported that a very obviously compromised Twitter insider, James Baker, attempted to influence or conceal information from the information release and could not provide an acceptable explanation for his actions, leading to his immediate termination. Baker, a former FBI/DOJ employee, left the government after he was associated with a FISA warrant obtained under false pretenses, said warrant allowing eavesdropping/wiretapping/information collection on presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign. Here are some incontrovertible elements, some of which probably deserve further investigation: 1) NY Post, a legitimate news org, was suspended from twitter for posting a link to the story published on their own website. The story was also on the cover of the printed newspaper. 2) Twitter suspended White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, for posting a link to the NY Post story. Twitter required her to delete the post to be re-instated. 3) Twitter suppressed references to the story and suspended other users. 4) Twitter falsely equated the story with dissemination of fraudulently obtained hacking materials; Even this article makes a point of the dubious potential of such a policy. The internal documents released show some discussion of internal controversy over the application of the policy in this case. 5) The information in the NY Post story was subsequently corroborated; 6) The FBI/DOJ was discovered to be in possession of the laptop and data prior to the news story and attempted to “poison the well” regarding disclosures by warning such materials would be “Russia hacking”. Note the FBI/DOJ are government agencies, hence the odor of censorship. 7) Twitter/Facebook etc attempted to impede the dissemination and discussion of critical news material to the upcoming election. This is cited by the article! This whole affair is annoyingly Orwellian and dystopian. Obviously certain highly compensated tech insiders were blind to the consequences of their blue-pill indulgences. The backlash could conceivably kill off the ecosystem; Musk appears to be doing his job to prevent Twitter future from being compromised by Twitter past.