The idea that it was remotely important in the context of the election. Also, the idea that the story was suppressed. Those parts, at least.

The FBI doesn't get to decide what's "important in the context of an election."

The contents of Hunter's laptop didn't stop me from voting for Biden, but that's because I'm a cynical jerk that already thinks politicians are corrupt by default.

I wasn't talking about the FBI, I was talking about Hunter Biden's laptop, and what an entirely bullshit story it is from start to finish. Read the comment I was responding to.

Lots of crackheads get jobs on the boards of foreign energy firms, and lots of crackheads dads withhold a billion dollars in loan guarantees from the nation where their crackhead sons have these jobs unless they fire the prosecutor looking into their sons business. Total nothing burger. Another one for the big guy.

But none of that actually happened, so it is a nothingburger.

Joe will tell you the story himself: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4820105/user-clip-biden-tells...

I mean, read the comment chain you were responding to?

How about this: you don't get to decide what's remotely important to people in the context of the election?

I'm not deciding anything for anyone, I'm merely pointing out a fact. Also, you're presuming the truth of the allegations that the FBI did anything to materially suppress this story, and that's not in evidence, Musk-driven hyperventilation aside.

> I'm merely pointing out a fact.

No, "the Hunter Biden story is insignificant" is not a fact, it's a judgement. I'd say that calling it "misinformation" is bizarre, except that most prominent allegations of misinformation boil down to judgements too.

It's actually a fact, though.

It's absolutely not a fact.

It absolutely is, though.

Wait, I thought twitter DID suppress the story as part of their anti hacking policy?

They blocked some links, as did other social networks, but the story was not suppressed by any stretch. It was still all over the place and everyone was talking about it in real time, on Twitter even.

>They blocked some links, as did other social networks, but the story was not suppressed by any stretch. It was still all over the place and everyone was talking about it in real time, on Twitter even.

Twitter's actions almost guaranteed that this would blow up, prompting the wider media ecosystem to respond to the story about the blocked tweet, letting many, many more people know about the laptop story (which anyone/everyone could still read without hindrance) to people (like me) who don't read the Post or use Twitter.

In fact, had Twitter not flagged the NY Post's tweet about the article, I might never have heard about the laptop story at all.

Why should a laptop repair shop be allowed to publish the contents of a customer's hard drive? Especially explicit content intended to aid harassment of the owner?

Can you imagine the reaction of Elon Musk if this happened? Musk can't even handle public information being published (i.e. elon jet). He would go nuclear if nude pictures were leaked.