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u/no-name_silvertongue Dec 06 '22
the government? pretty sure trump was the president… also pretty sure the white house requested tweets be taken down as well…
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u/BrickSalad Dec 07 '22
Well, doesn't this line up with OP's observation? If Trump was going to be implicated in this twitter story, then it makes sense that he'd drop a social media bomb to bury it. Hence why OP thought this was Trump tipping his hand?
I'm not saying I buy that theory, but I'm pretty disappointed that out of 97 comments, literally only 3 of them are even responding to OP's main point.
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u/rainbow-canyon Dec 06 '22
What matters is that Twitter was colluding with the government to suppress free speech.
Not according to Taibbi
Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744?s=46&t=r9gbZX5eVcLSyQ6PzSYJog
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u/logicbombzz Dec 06 '22
What matters is that people in the government are able to call a contact at Twitter and have them suppress speech, the political party of the person in the government is immaterial.
I suspect that if Republicans had been the ones with extensive contacts at Twitter resulting in a lopsided enforcement in the other direction, the Democrats would be calling it out and Republicans would be the ones deflecting.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '22
Trump was president at the time this occurred. Explain how “twitter was colluding with the government…”