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Re:The Twitter Files by chrisco255 on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:04PM (#33840464)
No, they removed a NY Post story on the laptop and censored the story. Yes, the laptop contained pornographic images, and some have alleged it contains child pornography as well (with Hunter in the scene), but those images themselves did not appear in the NYPost article.
Re:The Twitter Files by afavour on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:09PM (#33840490)
> they removed a NY Post story

They = Twitter in this instance, not the Biden team. Taibbi jumps from one event to the other as if to draw a line between them but there is an important distinction. None of the evidence presented shows the Biden team asking Twitter to take down the NY Post story, just the pornographic images posted.

Re:The Twitter Files by chrisco255 on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:31PM (#33840623)
Twitter censored everything to do with the Hunter Biden laptop story, they also took the extreme position of locking the NY Post account down over the article.

Matt Taibbi is showing requests to remove tweets related to the Biden laptop story from the Biden team and from the DNC, and showing Twitter rubber stamping those requests. No pushback. No review. Just "handled". It wasn't just pornographic images. It was buried as much as possible and flagged as disinformation across the platform.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-ny-post-remains-...

Re:The Twitter Files by afavour on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:38PM (#33840659)
> Matt Taibbi is showing requests to remove tweets related to the Biden laptop story from the Biden team and from the DNC, and showing Twitter rubber stamping those requests. No pushback. No review. Just "handled". It wasn't just pornographic images.

But that's exactly it: by the evidence presented it was just the pornographic images. Taibbi insinuates that Biden's team also requested other tweets be removed but there's no presented evidence to prove that.

Re:The Twitter Files by jbarciauskas on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:29PM (#33840611)
They exercised their free speech rights on their platform.
Re:The Twitter Files by djur on Saturday December 03, 2022 @02:28AM (#33841507)
> some have alleged it contains child pornography as well (with Hunter in the scene)

This is a tremendously incendiary and defamatory claim to make on the basis of "some have alleged". Unless you're willing to name your sources you should not post claims like this.