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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by jamiequint on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:51PM (#24796950)
What do you think Occam's razor would say is more likely? That the documents in the NY Post's reporting are fabricated? (While also knowing that it's over 24 hours later and Biden's campaign has yet to deny that the emails are legitimate) or that the documents are authentic.

I'd give it at best a 50/50 likelihood of being fake, and would hope that a free and liberal society would demand a lot higher confidence than that before they start wantonly censoring things on the internet.

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by slg on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:18PM (#24797091)
I wasn't saying definitively that the documents are fake. I simply have no idea whether they are authentic or not. These documents originate with Rudy Giuliani who was just revealed to be the target of a Russian disinformation campaign regarding Hunter Biden.[1] I will view anything that is coming from Giuliani with a healthy dose of skepticism until there is some outside confirmation.

However the authenticity of the documents isn't even relevant to the overall point. If they are fake, there is a crime of fraud. If they are authentic, it is likely a crime to release this information. There also doesn't appear to be any evidence of a crime committed by either Hunter or Joe Biden. Even if a meeting took place, which no one is able to confirm, that alone isn't a crime. That lack of crime would seemingly eliminate this as an example of whistleblowing. The end result is that it appears that a crime was committed just to make Biden look bad and try to turn the election in Trumps favor. I don't know why Twitter or Facebook need to allow their platforms to be a pawn in that game.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by Fjolsvith on Friday October 16, 2020 @10:11AM (#24800974)
> Even if a meeting took place, which no one is able to confirm, that alone isn't a crime.

Except, if it did take place, Joe would be caught in another big lie because he stated he never had any dealing with Hunter's business.