It's "Twitter Freedom Friday!"

[IrezumiKiss]

https://i.imgur.com/ko2wnCD.png

https://twitter.com/x/status/1604689329691004931

https://twitter.com/x/status/1604690053015314432

Tomorrow might be interesting.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Interesting perspectives on Twitter from one of the most liberal members of Congress.

https://www.thefp.com/p/ro-khanna-on-twitter-free-speech

On why he reached out to Twitter in October 2020 about Twitter’s decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story:

I was candidly concerned that they were censoring a newspaper. I just couldn't believe that they were actually telling the New York Post that they couldn't print an article.

On the importance of the Twitter Files:

Here’s why I think the “nothingburger” argument is compounding the problem. Let’s stipulate that 60% of the country may not care about the Twitter Files. But if 40% of the country thinks they don’t have a fair shake on a modern platform, don’t you think you should listen?

On the media blackout on the Twitter Files story:

I think it’s a mistake. But I think there is this fear in the media to say, well, are we buying into a conservative story?

On Twitter banning Donald Trump:

To be honest, I really struggled with this. World leaders need to be treated consistently. You can’t just ban Donald Trump, but not ban other autocratic leaders who have threatened violence or led to hate against targeted groups. What concerns me in the Twitter Files is whether the pattern of tweets inciting violence was documented in a consistent way, as opposed to someone just saying, ‘Well, let's suspend Donald Trump because he's conservative and he's been impeached twice.’ I would think that there would be evidence that he had incited violence enough to have warranted a suspension. But that doesn't seem to be the way Twitter made this decision.

 

[phrodeau]

they were actually telling the New York Post that they couldn't print an article.

That did not happen.

 

[schism666]

To be honest, I really struggled with this.

you struggle with the recipe for ice.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

you struggle with the recipe for ice.

Very true. My culinary abilities are indeed limited, however those words were from Representative Khanna, not me.

 

[HisArpy]

Not even you believe that.

Apparently you know more about what I believe than I do.

I now haz the sads for me over it, you meany.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Interesting perspectives on Twitter from one of the most liberal members of Congress.

https://www.thefp.com/p/ro-khanna-on-twitter-free-speech

On why he reached out to Twitter in October 2020 about Twitter’s decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story:

I was candidly concerned that they were censoring a newspaper. I just couldn't believe that they were actually telling the New York Post that they couldn't print an article.

On the importance of the Twitter Files:

Here’s why I think the “nothingburger” argument is compounding the problem. Let’s stipulate that 60% of the country may not care about the Twitter Files. But if 40% of the country thinks they don’t have a fair shake on a modern platform, don’t you think you should listen?

On the media blackout on the Twitter Files story:

I think it’s a mistake. But I think there is this fear in the media to say, well, are we buying into a conservative story?

On Twitter banning Donald Trump:

To be honest, I really struggled with this. World leaders need to be treated consistently. You can’t just ban Donald Trump, but not ban other autocratic leaders who have threatened violence or led to hate against targeted groups. What concerns me in the Twitter Files is whether the pattern of tweets inciting violence was documented in a consistent way, as opposed to someone just saying, ‘Well, let's suspend Donald Trump because he's conservative and he's been impeached twice.’ I would think that there would be evidence that he had incited violence enough to have warranted a suspension. But that doesn't seem to be the way Twitter made this decision.

If 40% of people said the Earth was flat, would you listen to them?

 

[DeluxAuto]

If 40% of people said the Earth was flat, would you listen to them?

If 40% were comprised of Trump and Musk, yes. Yes he would.

 

[Lazaran]

That did not happen.

I could swear I read multiple articles about “Hunter’s laptop” from The NY Pist and other similarly “unbiased” online rags.

And I’m pretty sure Fox “news” ran with the story as well.

All that ^ despite the absence of a proper vetting from the FBI.

Although, to be fair, the owner of the computer repair shop HAD made an official determination on the contents of “Hunter’s laptop” so…….

BabyBoobs

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1604506901722460160

https://twitter.com/x/status/1604819479170629634

https://i.imgur.com/9Yb1wnx.png

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

I could swear I read multiple articles about “Hunter’s laptop” from The NY Pist and other similarly “unbiased” online rags.

And I’m pretty sure Fox “news” ran with the story as well.

All that ^ despite the absence of a proper vetting from the FBI.

Although, to be fair, the owner of the computer repair shop HAD made an official determination on the contents of “Hunter’s laptop” so…….

BabyBoobs

I presume your comment is in reference to what Congressman Khanna said. Twitter and other social media companies made great efforts to suppress a newspaper story that was potentially damaging to Biden and most major media outlets ignored it. The FBI had possession of Hunter’s laptop for about a year before the Post story broke. The narrative that the laptop contained “Russian disinformation” that was initially floated has been debunked.

 

[phrodeau]

Twitter and other social media companies made great efforts to suppress a newspaper story that was potentially damaging to Biden and most major media outlets ignored it.

Nothing was suppressed. No press freedom was infringed. Outlets and platforms simply didn’t want that rag littering their doorsteps.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Nothing was suppressed. No press freedom was infringed. Outlets and platforms simply didn’t want that rag littering their doorsteps.

Twitter absolutely suppressed it. The prevented users from sharing it. Dorsey even admitted it and said it was a mistake. I did not say majore media outlets suppressed it. I said they ignored it. It was long after the election that they bothered to validate the content. Certainly the FBI knew the content authentic and was not a hack. They took possession of the laptop in December of 2019.

 

[Lazaran]

BabyBoobs cites someone and pretends like that doesn’t confer shared ownership of the statement to BabyBoobs.

BabyBoobs

Citing someone to support a narrative or an argument opens the person doing the citing to rebuttal and ridicule,

BabyBoobs

BabyBoobs is wrong in suggesting through the Rho Khanna opinion, that “they were actually telling the NY Post that they couldn’t print an article.” - they being Twitter.

BabyBoobs

And as far as the FBI is concerned, the NY Pist did “print an article” before the FBI had concluded its vetting of the laptop. Questioning the timing of the NY Pist article and subsequent embellishments by corrupt actors, and not amplifying the story, was a legitimate and reasonable response from Twitter, reputable news organizations, the FBI, former intelligence officials, and supporters of President Biden.

BabyBoobs

 

[schism666]

power hungry billionaire fascists have had a rough december.

 

[spacekowboy]

$44B could have been spent to help cure world hunger or finance scholarships for research and development. It was more important to be a troll on the internet.

 

[phrodeau]

Twitter absolutely suppressed it.

Only on Twitter.

The prevented users from sharing it.

Only on Twitter.

 

[Rotadom]

It's getting even more pathetic .

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[Chobham]

I wonder who Musk will name as the new CEO? remember his tweet, "Be careful what you ask for"? Peter Thiel maybe?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I wonder who Musk will name as the new CEO? remember his tweet, "Be careful what you ask for"? Peter Thiel maybe?

Whoever he picks can’t do a worse job than Musk.

 

[JohnEBbad]

Still looks and smells like Democrat/Liberal butt-hurt in here...

What's so hard about just finding a new platform in which ti isolate and inflate yourselves from alternative opinions?

You certainly aren't short of millionaires and billionaires who spend all sorts of monies, time and effort on virtue-signaling to you and funding woke candidates to snooker you with.

 

[JohnEBbad]

I wonder who Musk will name as the new CEO? remember his tweet, "Be careful what you ask for"? Peter Thiel maybe?

*chuckle*

The Big Bad Orange Man. That would sen the Left into rinse and re-lather mode...

 

[Chobham]

People like Musk game things out before they act, most people just act so they believe everyone else does as well. Musk naming a new CEO is a stroke of genius. Takes him out of the line of fire while he still pulls the strings. He just needs to find someone that knows the business and that he can trust. Thiel would be perfect if he'd take the job. He knows the business inside and out and he'd be the 'wokesters' nightmare come true.

 

[JohnEBbad]

Good place to further the next campaign. I wonder if Hillary will try to run too...