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The one good thing that's come out of Musk's ownership of Twitter is that we now have extensive public evidence that Twitter staff bent over backwards to mainta
by djur 4y ago
The one good thing that's come out of Musk's ownership of Twitter is that we now have extensive public evidence that Twitter staff bent over backwards to maintain objective moderation standards even in the face of unprecedented challenges. The "leftist cabal" theories are thoroughly disproven now. And we see now the kind of actions that an actual ideological cabal would take if they controlled Twitter.
- beaned 4y agoThis seems like gaslighting? My interpretation of the recent files reports were the opposite.
- imwillofficial 4y agoWait what? Not my take on this at all.
- paganel 4y ago> The "leftist cabal" theories are thoroughly disproven now. Just the other day there was a post in here of the FBI getting actively involved in censoring Twitter content, if it had been only the "leftist cabal" involved (btw, there's nothing genuinely "leftist" about those people, but that's another story) things would have been way better.
- djur 4y agoThe FBI passed along reports they received of possible violations of Twitter TOS (something we already knew they did), and the evidence is clear that they did not limit these reports to conservative accounts (something that has been claimed, but which never made sense, considering the FBI's historical Republican lean).
- paganel 4y ago> The FBI passed along reports they received of possible violations of Twitter TOS (something we already knew they did), I.e. censorship. Why the heck does the FBI get involved in the TOS enforcement of some website on the Internet? (if not for controlling the discourse, that is).
- djur 4y agoIt's only censorship if Twitter was being coerced into taking action on the accounts. Conveniently, Taibbi included evidence showing that Twitter made its own independent moderation decisions -- some accounts reported had already been suspended, and others were not acted on after a review.
- paganel 4y ago> It's only censorship if Twitter was being coerced into taking action on the accounts. Self-censorship is how censorship best works. When a 3-letter agency sends you something you get the cue on the spot. But glad that the FBI agents didn't have to physically threaten the former Twitter guys to censor stuff, we're not in the Soviet 1950s anymore.
- nyolfen 4y agothis is hallucinatory, twitter had a dozen former fbi officials on staff and was literally sent lists of tweets to delete by the DNC
- djur 4y agoTaibbi said both campaigns sent in reports of content on Twitter that they claimed violated TOS. The tweets reported by the Biden campaign were clearly in violation of the TOS (they included leaked nude pictures). I don't know what the FBI has to do with any of this, but if Twitter has a lot of ex-FBI people on staff that would seem to be evidence _against_ the "leftist cabal" theory.
- nyolfen 4y agoit has been clear for some time that the US intelligence machine has chosen its side: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-...
- starkd 4y agoMatt Taibbi literally said the exact opposite of this.
- djur 4y agoThe evidence he (and Bari Weiss) presented and his analysis of that evidence were not consistent with each other. Given the choice, I'm going to rely on the primary sources, not the guy who was handpicked to promote a particular agenda.