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Correct. He didn't use a legal framework, and did it anyway. They even convinced Twitter to ban retweeting an unfavorable New York Post article that turned out

Correct. He didn't use a legal framework, and did it anyway. They even convinced Twitter to ban retweeting an unfavorable New York Post article that turned out true! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-biden-officials-scream-curse-facebook-rcna187199 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mark-zuckerbe... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-white-house-pressured-facebook-to-censor-some-covid-19-content-during-the-pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20220914/115106/HHRG-117-GO02-20220914-SD012.pdf https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO02/20220914/115106/HHRG... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/14/facebook-twitter-new-york-post-hunter-biden https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/14/facebook-... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54552101 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54552101

Retinal7467 1y ago
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- zahlman 1y ago
  > Not a single one of these articles supports the claim that the Biden administration used the law to make speech illegal in the same manner that trump used the fcc to make speech illegal. TFA doesn't establish that Trump did any such thing, nor even that the FCC did any such thing.
jcranmer 1y ago
Trump's single greatest political achievement is to make everybody forget who was president in 2020.
the_why_of_y 1y ago
Twitter moderated the New York Post story based on their "hacked materials doxxing" policy, then executives immediately realized that the particular circumstances of this story weren't foreseen when the policy was written and within 24 hours changed the policy to allow posting the story. And here we are 5 years later and people still bring it up.

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Correct. He didn't use a legal framework, and did it anyway. They even convinced Twitter to ban retweeting an unfavorable New York Post article that turned out

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Retinal7467 1y ago
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- zahlman 1y ago
  > Not a single one of these articles supports the claim that the Biden administration used the law to make speech illegal in the same manner that trump used the fcc to make speech illegal. TFA doesn't establish that Trump did any such thing, nor even that the FCC did any such thing.
jcranmer 1y ago
Trump's single greatest political achievement is to make everybody forget who was president in 2020.
the_why_of_y 1y ago
Twitter moderated the New York Post story based on their "hacked materials doxxing" policy, then executives immediately realized that the particular circumstances of this story weren't foreseen when the policy was written and within 24 hours changed the policy to allow posting the story. And here we are 5 years later and people still bring it up.