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> I feel like the really interesting part of "The Twitter Files" isn't the arbitrary moderation decisions made (we sort of knew what they were thru their implem
by AlexandrB 4y ago
> I feel like the really interesting part of "The Twitter Files" isn't the arbitrary moderation decisions made (we sort of knew what they were thru their implementation and it's hard for moderation to be "not arbitrary" whether you agree with the decisions or not) but the involvement of US government representatives in it.
I haven't followed parts 2 & 3 of the Twitter files. But the irony here is that the government officials involved in part 1 were the Trump administration. Biden was not yet elected and should be considered a private citizen.
- Jiro 4y agoThis is one of the ways in which the deep state matters. "The Trump Administration" can be opposed to actual-Trump.
- djur 4y agoThe FBI helped him get elected in 2016 and was headed by his own appointee. If it was acting against his interests in 2020 that's an extraordinary failure in leadership.
- Eisenstein 4y agoIt must be nice to have an escape-hatch to use whenever something doesn't line up with how you feel it should.
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- LMYahooTFY 4y agoPerhaps legally this is how it would work (IANAL), but given what's played out during elections I think that subjecting a candidate to the criteria of a public official in this regard has merit.