Re:The Twitter Files
by chroma on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:38PM
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Biden himself wasn't an elected official at the time, but many others were. One of Taibbi's tweets shows an email from the DNC requesting that certain tweets be censored.
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DNC is a private organization.
So if the RNC had a hotline to Twitter that they used to censor stuff so their candidates could win more elections, you'd respond in the same manner? They're a private organization.
I wouldn't claim it was govt interference like you're doing to support a bogus argument.
Taibbi's own claims are that both parties and both campaigns had this "hotline" to Twitter.
If people were posting revenge porn of Tiffany Trump on Twitter and RNC staffers contacted Twitter to notify them of the offending tweets, I think that would be commendable.
In fact, there were nudes of Melania Trump shared on social media during the 2016 election. These weren't personal but were instead professional photographs. Everywhere I ever saw them they were taken down very very quickly.
Re:The Twitter Files
by andreysolsty on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:12AM
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It's in TFA:
"10.Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:"