Re:The Twitter Files
by nonethewiser on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:18AM
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This grants that Twitter is partisan though.
Re:The Twitter Files
by nickthegreek on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:32PM
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Twitter also removed posts at the behest of Trump’s team. But I will say they definitely lean left, which everyone knew.
Re:The Twitter Files
by acjohnson55 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:39PM
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No, because "partisan" would imply they work on behalf of a political party. The so-called Twitter Files themselves demonstrate that this is not true.
I'm not here to claim that people working at Twitter are unbiased. Everyone has bias. But also, there's extrinsic bias in what they're dealing with, in the sense that "both sides" aren't doing the same things. One trick is to behave egregiously and then when called out for it, claim bias.
It's also ridiculous to me that they think removing a couple naked pictures of Hunter is "censorship". As if you can truly "censor" information on the internet. You can maybe slow its spread, but if anything, the hardest thing is get things off the internet, not on.
These people keep blaming some vague magical power for the reason Hunter stories never went anywhere, but the real reason no one talks about them isn't censorship, it's because they're literally non-stories. It's just revenge porn videos of a known drug abuser.
To call this "authoritarian censorship" is honestly mind boggling.
On the other hand, where Republicans have political power, they are using it restrict speech and rights, by law.
"Both sides" are not the same.