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The context and text within the emails doesn't match what you just wrote and from what I've seen there were 1000s of deletions -- not only of Hunter Biden's pen

by lhnz 4y ago

The context and text within the emails doesn't match what you just wrote and from what I've seen there were 1000s of deletions -- not only of Hunter Biden's penis as you imply... It makes zero sense to me that this email (https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701482308669440?s=46&t=KYdL5AiudlmhYzDDj3HeLA https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701482308669440?s=46&...) would have anything to do with Hunter Biden's penis. The Twitter employee is clearly talking about feeling unable to not act on a pro-russian tweet even though they hadn't been able to support any action on it using Twitter's own policies. The point is, the US government partially infiltrated Twitter, and then applied regular external pressure on it to applying badly defined policies against their targets.

astrange 4y ago
Btw, I endorse all US influence operations run on any websites and think all of them are awesome. America #1, after all. If you want Twitter to be upset about that one, you may have to get them to move to some non-aligned country. Maybe there’s some kind of Yandex Twitter? In the meantime, it’s probably against TOS insofar as it’s a spambot, but state media like VOA seem okay.
- lhnz 4y ago
  Well, how soon will it be until non-US aligned social media like TikTok is banned in the US anyway? The popular alternatives that you speak of may end up banned. Also I don't understand why non-US citizens should be allowed to have their speech rights crushed by the US government. Many people of different nationalities live in the US and should be free to speak -- they shouldn't be censored by the US government wearing a glove ("US Tech Organisations") but effectively calling the shots.
  - astrange 4y ago
    If TikTok was banned that’d be disappointing. I don’t expect it to be; the plan where Oracle bought it was better. It is a problem that China influences it. I don’t think the EU is capable of making a popular social media site either unfortunately. They don’t have the culture. Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up, like their wolf warrior diplomats and Chen Weihua, which is another good sign for what they’re allowing elsewhere. Maybe that’s just because Chen is so incompetent it’s funny to let him post…
    - seanmcdirmid 4y ago
      > Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up Isn’t Twitter blocked in China? Do wolf warriors not see any hypocrisy in using it?
      - astrange 4y ago
        Why would they do that? It’s normal for Chinese export and domestic businesses to be completely different too - you can get all the Winnie the Pooh merch you want made there. Not being hypocritical isn’t even a universal virtue.
        seanmcdirmid 4y ago
        It’s just extolling the virtues and freedoms of China on a platform that is blocked in China doesn’t really make one look sincere.

by lhnz 4y ago

astrange 4y ago

Btw, I endorse all US influence operations run on any websites and think all of them are awesome. America #1, after all. If you want Twitter to be upset about that one, you may have to get them to move to some non-aligned country. Maybe there’s some kind of Yandex Twitter? In the meantime, it’s probably against TOS insofar as it’s a spambot, but state media like VOA seem okay.

lhnz 4y ago
Well, how soon will it be until non-US aligned social media like TikTok is banned in the US anyway? The popular alternatives that you speak of may end up banned. Also I don't understand why non-US citizens should be allowed to have their speech rights crushed by the US government. Many people of different nationalities live in the US and should be free to speak -- they shouldn't be censored by the US government wearing a glove ("US Tech Organisations") but effectively calling the shots.
- astrange 4y ago
  If TikTok was banned that’d be disappointing. I don’t expect it to be; the plan where Oracle bought it was better. It is a problem that China influences it. I don’t think the EU is capable of making a popular social media site either unfortunately. They don’t have the culture. Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up, like their wolf warrior diplomats and Chen Weihua, which is another good sign for what they’re allowing elsewhere. Maybe that’s just because Chen is so incompetent it’s funny to let him post…
  - seanmcdirmid 4y ago
    > Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up Isn’t Twitter blocked in China? Do wolf warriors not see any hypocrisy in using it?
    - astrange 4y ago
      Why would they do that? It’s normal for Chinese export and domestic businesses to be completely different too - you can get all the Winnie the Pooh merch you want made there. Not being hypocritical isn’t even a universal virtue.
      - seanmcdirmid 4y ago
        It’s just extolling the virtues and freedoms of China on a platform that is blocked in China doesn’t really make one look sincere.