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A politically charged example would be the Hunter Biden laptop story. Supposedly it was a conspiracy theory too dangerous to even share … when in actuality it

A politically charged example would be the Hunter Biden laptop story. Supposedly it was a conspiracy theory too dangerous to even share … when in actuality it was legitimately his laptop. It was an unprecedented use of censorship that failed spectacularly.

mc32 4y ago
This one is a real oddity-- in some context he said it wasn't his laptop, on the other hand he is suing the the guy for violating his privacy --which is plausible if say someone hacked into his actual laptop and stole his emails and photos and stored them on this laptop... but then people were claiming the emails were fake --and we had like 100 ex-intel saying it was Russian disinfo... and of course they now are backpedaling.
- tehwebguy 4y ago
  Normal people don’t care about the laptop story. They don’t care if he goes to prison or not. It’s not relevant to almost anyone. Then Joe candidly spoke about his fucked up son — everyone cares about that. Eventually we all know or knew someone that can’t seem to get it together, often someone we love. I doubt US presidents are capable of love, that was probably as close as we’ll get. Meanwhile, anyone talking about the story after that starts to look like a monster. Charge the guy, don’t charge him, who cares? I’m sure if there are solid charges a US Attorney will prosecute. There are 94 of them and Biden has only nominated 70, plenty left over from last admin to pursue it if they want (plus the 2 years they’ve had since the election). Normal people don’t care, they are busy trying to survive and a brand new marker would run out of ink before you could draw a line from “president’s quiet failson” back to their life.
  - mc32 4y ago
    If normal people don’t care then why did 100 ex-intel guys bother to write an article claiming it was Russian disinformation at the risk of influencing a national election and ironically then actually influencing said election which they claimed was trying to be influenced by the Russkies?
    - tehwebguy 4y ago
      Probably to become make money and/or become famous?
  - doublepg23 4y ago
    I used this politically inflammatory story because it was an example of the platforms literally censoring news. How is that not relevant to the discussion at hand? I didn’t mention “normal people” or if they should care about it, that’s orthogonal to the topic. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-panel-probes-twitter-block-hunter-biden-story-2023-02-08/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-pan...

mc32 4y ago

This one is a real oddity-- in some context he said it wasn't his laptop, on the other hand he is suing the the guy for violating his privacy --which is plausible if say someone hacked into his actual laptop and stole his emails and photos and stored them on this laptop... but then people were claiming the emails were fake --and we had like 100 ex-intel saying it was Russian disinfo... and of course they now are backpedaling.

tehwebguy 4y ago
Normal people don’t care about the laptop story. They don’t care if he goes to prison or not. It’s not relevant to almost anyone. Then Joe candidly spoke about his fucked up son — everyone cares about that. Eventually we all know or knew someone that can’t seem to get it together, often someone we love. I doubt US presidents are capable of love, that was probably as close as we’ll get. Meanwhile, anyone talking about the story after that starts to look like a monster. Charge the guy, don’t charge him, who cares? I’m sure if there are solid charges a US Attorney will prosecute. There are 94 of them and Biden has only nominated 70, plenty left over from last admin to pursue it if they want (plus the 2 years they’ve had since the election). Normal people don’t care, they are busy trying to survive and a brand new marker would run out of ink before you could draw a line from “president’s quiet failson” back to their life.
- mc32 4y ago
  If normal people don’t care then why did 100 ex-intel guys bother to write an article claiming it was Russian disinformation at the risk of influencing a national election and ironically then actually influencing said election which they claimed was trying to be influenced by the Russkies?
  - tehwebguy 4y ago
    Probably to become make money and/or become famous?
- doublepg23 4y ago
  I used this politically inflammatory story because it was an example of the platforms literally censoring news. How is that not relevant to the discussion at hand? I didn’t mention “normal people” or if they should care about it, that’s orthogonal to the topic. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-panel-probes-twitter-block-hunter-biden-story-2023-02-08/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-pan...