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Trump's taxes were illegally obtained (hacked or leaked.) For all we know, the Chinese may have given it to the NYT, as the NYT never bothered to tell us how they got their hands onto them. But Twitter did nothing about them.

If Twitter was honest, every time the figure $750 appeared in a Tweet it should be blocked.

If you feel my statement above is absurd, that just shows how normalized the double standard has become.

ps I think there should be a law that all Presidents disclose tax returns and financial information. If you run for President you deserve a lesser right for privacy. It's not about that though. Twitter shouldn't censor based on its opinions.

Was the story that the NY Post article was the result of Russian 'disinformation' based on facts? Because Twitter did nothing to stop that, not a fact check, not a block, nothing. Twitter was certain that 'story' was true, but the FBI (who said they have no evidence the Russians did it) was clueless?

If I may, the reason you are unimpressed is that you are on the political side that benefited from Twitter's selective bias this time around. Next time you may not be as lucky tho.

Twitter has been claiming it's not a newspaper or editorial organization. They are legal benefits for Twitter to NOT be a newspaper. That's why they need to claim an objective reason for censoring/fact checking a specific story.

So, I understand what you say but Twitter would beg to differ with you.

Also network effects are harder to come by in newspapers. Imagine if there was one newspaper that had 100x the readership of the second most popular one. That'd be considered a threat to democracy.

To people claiming Twitter was right:

- was this disinformation (i.e. emails were fake?)

- or, was this hacking (i.e. the emails were real but NY Post shouldn't have them?)

Twitter clearly claimed the latter, in other words they were confident the emails were real as soon as the story broke out (!!!)

Impressive journalism on their behalf, but to put sarcasm aside, this is why it's impossible to censor in real time. There is no time to evaluate a story in minutes so your biases (or, worse, corruption) needs to fill the void.

It was really fun to watch half (liberal) Twitter claiming this was disinformation (i.e. false information) and the other half - including Twitter itself - claiming it was hacking (i.e. absolutely true information, albeit one they shouldn't have their hands on).

I feel most people don't care about the facts, they care about their opinions which is now part of their identity. This is not good at all.

It's a matter of scale. As the article says, the current Democratic Party Alliance for suppressing damaging stories is so broad, that even though you can publish your story, the chances of reaching its intended audience at scale are slim.

Also - if Twitter gets to decide whats get published on their platform, they are an editorial organization - something they've vehemently denied they are in the past.

"even 50%-60% in taxes"

in the US paying 60% in taxes is equivalent to 'not contributing your fair share" which is why Biden wants to take it even higher. I'm surprised how US has some of the highest income taxes (especially in places like CA and NYC) but people still think it's a low tax place.

If that was his intent:

Why not selectively publish only the parts about surveillance of US citizens?

Why publish details of how the US was dealing with adversaries like China?

From the looks of it, Snowden cared about getting famous more than any specific goal.

I love trains and I'm a EU-born US resident, so I get it.

It's a density problem though. US is super sparsely populated. Outside of the northeast corridor (DC <> NYC <> Boston) the rest is too spread out with few exceptions to support train service.

The US highway system is like spaghetti for good reason.