Re:The Twitter Files
by jeffreyrogers on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:29PM
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I don't know what the contents of the tweets are. What the images show are people affiliated with political campaigns asking twitter employees to remove tweets, which is what I claimed originally.
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Grab a link, paste it into web archive, go to the October 2020 capture, see a dick pic.
If you want to see one, https://web.archive.org/web/20201024235823/https://twitter.c...
You can then judge the question of "did the person in the image consent to having their picture shown on Twitter, or is this in violation California penal code 647(j)(4)?"
Re:The Twitter Files
by jeffreyrogers on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:46PM
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Thanks. Again, what I claimed was that twitter performed actions at the the request of people affiliated with political parties/campaigns. I didn't make any claims about the content of the tweets or their legality/status under twitter's terms and conditions.
So if these weren't reported by a member of the Biden campaign and instead reported by Hunter Biden himself - would there be an issue?
Other than timeliness, would you expect any different resolution if they were reported by a private citizen unrelated to the Biden campaign?
If the answer to both of these question is 'no', what is the big deal?
Re:The Twitter Files
by jeffreyrogers on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:54PM
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There is an existing flow to report a tweet or account. This sort of backchannel communication is news and good to have documented. It's not about Biden or politics. If you read my comments you'll note that I never referenced the specific political parties involved and in fact the twitter thread says actions were taken on behalf of both parties.