Re:The Twitter Files
by newZWhoDis on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:42PM
(#33840335)
Yeah, Tony never told them to kill anyone. He just complained about X and they were “handled”.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
If they refused to handle Tony's problem, what happened? If twitter refused to handle the problem, what happens?
The analogy falls flat.
Re:The Twitter Files
by newZWhoDis on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:55PM
(#33840743)
> If twitter refused to handle the problem, what happens?
230
If only America had a constitutional system that could protect the little guys like Twitter from the mean ol’ government.
Re:The Twitter Files
by newZWhoDis on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:21AM
(#33840884)
With today’s revelations, Twitter was acting as the government, under the direction of government employees, fulfilling traditionally government-roles, often for particular political wings of said government
Employees of what government?
Re:The Twitter Files
by encryptluks2 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:54AM
(#33841331)
The Trump Whitehouse.
It’s a little generous to call the Trump White House a government. Maybe a syndicate.
In fact in both cases they were happy to comply. No coercion was necessary, making Twitter into an overtly political apparatus in this case.
Who is Tony in this analogy? Trump was president at the time, and had threatened Zelensky to improve his election chances.
Twitter was supposed to fear Biden?
Re:The Twitter Files
by Georgelemental on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:18AM
(#33844081)
Biden was expected to win the election, and therefore to become President, at that point.
Favored to win and assume power in 3 months, yes. Trump was president at the time. Current, guaranteed threat, with a track record of doing exactly that.
Biden has a long public history, without abuse of power.
It's not comparable.