You’ve seen the Senate anti-trust investigation of tech?

Pretty sure “playing ball” helps build goodwill with the people who decide whether to break your company up or not.

I tried to follow, but this idea makes a record for logical leaps. For those of us not as adept at parsing prognostication via tea leaves, can you connect a senate investigation to moderation actions at Twitter?

This wasn't even the Biden Admin as it was 2020 so it was just the campaign team.

Yeah it seems like Twitters political ideology was more operative.

Collusion doesn't require coercion. In fact that's what the tweet thread refers to at the beginning. It is most likely out of political partisanship.

Its partisan to remove dick-pics[1]? You really all have lost the plot if you align yourself to the right over this nothing burger of a story.

[1] The tweets referenced by the biden team were Hunter Biden dick pics, you can check yourself in the Wayback Machine

It is because Twitter does not typically remove pornography. Infamously, Twitter did not even remove reported CSAM until after Musk purchased the company and fired the director of Trust and Safety.

Twitter doesn't delete leaked pornography?!

Uh yeah sorry but nude photos posted without the subject’s consent is definitely and clearly against Twitter TOS. And the law!

Do you have citations for either of those claims?

Twitter definitely removed pornography which wasn’t labeled or which was posted without the consent of the people involved.

As for CSAM, whoever told you that is blatantly lying to you. There are annual reports showing thousands of reports to NCMEC and accounts getting banned - here’s last year:

https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/202...

revenge porn is illegal in many jurisdictions

> Infamously, Twitter did not even remove reported CSAM until after Musk purchased the company and fired the director of Trust and Safety

Source on this?

Anecdotally, the reaction of everyone I know working in law enforcement to the Musk purchase and subsequent layoffs was "this is going to make it infinitely more difficult to get CSAM taken down from Twitter".

> Infamously, Twitter did not even remove reported CSAM until after Musk purchased the company and fired the director of Trust and Safety.

Yeah, that’s gonna need a reputable citation.

If someone posts revenge porn then Twitter won't take it down if asked? That seems like it's opening itself up to a lot of lawsuits.

Would be pretty crazy if they didn't! That's exactly how Gawker got sued out of existence, as I suspect everyone here remembers.

Its partisan to censor the laptop story.

There was no Biden administration at the time! In fact, there was not conversation with "the government." Twitter were exercising their freedom of speech (or non speech!)

The US government has a history of going after people that say no to them or that they don't like, yes. Qwest is a great example

Or, like, Twitter? I mean it's interesting to see the white hot outrage and political concern burning everywhere over 'rich billionaire owns social media platform.'

I mean Zuck must be the devil himself by now then... Or is it Musk's ideological views creating such consternation? In which case, also interesting to see the federal interest.

Zuck is pretty widely despised…

Not by the government...

What federal interest?

another great example, yes

Abraham Lincoln sent federal agents to shut down two newspapers with antiwar sentiment in NYC. Those papers never came back.

Good riddance.

Quite interesting, considering they had printed what we might now call as "fake news".

They would probably call for more "common-sense" regulation of Big Tech