Re:The Twitter Files
by runsWphotons on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:47AM
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lol. the speed with which this silly argument is spreading. "well actually, he wasnt in office yet, so its technically OK!". come on, man.
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He had zero government-granted powers to abuse at the time. Whether it's morally ok is a different question, but you can't deny that.
How is it not OK, exactly? I mean, Twitter has a "report" button. I can report a tweet right now. Is that not OK? Clearly it's OK. I can likewise send an email to report tweets. Twitter doesn't have to read it, but I can send it. That's OK too. What exactly not OK about someone else doing the same thing that's OK for me?
I suspect your answer is going to rely, as I point out, on facts not in evidence. You are just assuming that (1) Twitter did as the Biden campaign demanded for political reasons and (2) the tweets were valid and should have been left up. And if those facts are true, you're right! That's not OK.
So now let's go back to the Taibbi article and see if you're right. And... you're not. He doesn't have that evidence. He just wants you to believe it, so he (and Musk) are pretending that the article says things it doesn't.