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The Twitter files that document the FBI requesting takedown of posts and accounts, Twitter internally debating the request, refusing the FBI and then suffering
by TOMDM 2y ago
The Twitter files that document the FBI requesting takedown of posts and accounts, Twitter internally debating the request, refusing the FBI and then suffering no consequences?
Those Twitter files?
Meanwhile Trump is suing pollsters for publications he doesn't like; extorting law firms for representation as reparation for them representing clients that sued him, who is deporting lawful permenant residents without due process for speech that is protected.
How can you possibly look at these and think they are in any way equivelant?
- tstrimple 2y agoThe Twitter files are basically the same as the Mueller report at this point. Folks completely ignorant to the topic and who have never read them hold them up as proof that they were right all along. Never mind that if they could actually read and understand the documents, they would realize they show the opposite of what they claim.
- TOMDM 2y agoIt's maddening. I'm glad I left the US.
- harry8 2y ago> refusing the FBI and then suffering no consequences The whole thing was clearly just a partisan smear job in your eyes. Precisely the same reaction as the views of current maga types about the current first am disasters. It's worth revisiting /precisely/ in relation to fighting the current assault. It's worth noting who publicly opposed /both/.
- aweiland 2y agoThe twitter files were well curated by Musk and team to tell a certain story. Is that not the definition of a partisan smear job?
- harry8 2y agoThat is false.
- TOMDM 2y agoNo, comparing the two at this point is an attempt to pretend this insanity is the other side of the same coin. They're simply not. Look at the spectrum. 1. Someone commits a harm (pick any one of the harms I listed from Trump above) 2. Someone attempts a harm and either hasn't succeeded yet or fails 3. Someone threatens a harm against someone. 4. Someone makes a request that implies they could escalate to a threat of harm if they were to be refused. (This is the worst you can reasonably claim the Twitter files as evidence for) That is how far apart these two instances are. If you disagree please be specific because this claim that both sides are equivalent is absurd, especially when people refuse to ground out the example when confronted.
- harry8 2y agoYou don’t stand on principle don’t expect the principle to stand. No it’s them it’s always them…
- TOMDM 2y agoMy democracy for an example
- harry8 2y agoThe government successfully threatens a private company to make then censor. Is that ok? Not for them.
- TOMDM 2y agoBut that's not what happened in the Twitter files. Requests were made, no threats. Some were complied with when Twitter agreed, some were denied. There were no consequences for the refusals. Please, cite a specific threat. A lawsuit, a link, a source, a quote, anything. And if you link the Twitter files themselves, let's make sure we actually run their sources to ground, because what they present them as and what they actually say are two different things.
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