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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by eggy on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:20AM (#34012530)
The computer store owner in the USA is not a foreign adversary. The content is real and criminal. Ties to foreign adversary China and Russia too.

Be honest, and ask yourself if that had been Trump's son's laptop would Twitter, The Washington Post, and the others have done the same? I don't think so.

If I collate publicy available information and publish it continuously on any person, you are OK with that? If it happens to you?

Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by richbell on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:11AM (#34014137)
> The computer store owner in the USA is not a foreign adversary.

Sure, if you presuppose that the people responsible for disclosing it are credible and honest.

I personally have some questions why a computer store owner would, faced with an abandoned laptop from a customer, decided to snoop through its contents and give it to Rudy Giuliani, of all people.

If you take the story at face value it's still a massive breach of privacy. You have to go out of your way to find this stuff; an ethical repair shop would go out of their way to avoid accidentally stumping across private information.

Even still, if you assume that he stumbled across extremely concerning information in a manner no fault of his own, why did he feel it necessary to leak videos of Hunter Biden smoking crack and having sex? There is no legitimate reason to do so, and if Hunter wasn't a man people would realize how creepy that is.

> Be honest, and ask yourself if that had been Trump's son's laptop would Twitter, The Washington Post, and the others have done the same? I don't think so.

I agree.