They are also censoring it being sent in direct messages. This is probably the most farcical gift tech has ever given the GOP
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#12Whatever your perspective, directly verifiable censorship like this is just begging for legal trouble and monopoly investigations. Tactically speaking, I would say this is a massive mistake from Twitter.
Technically Facebook did it first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24778053
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#13Robert Graham [1] pointed out that if the emails are authentic, they can be trivially verified via DKIM.
That the email metadata was not released implies the emails are either inauthentic, or that the post did not contact someone with basic competence in computer forensics.
Either possibility seriously undercuts the article's credibility.
[1] https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1316407424648179717
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#14weird that there is actually no mention of these materials being hacked from anywhere though, or did I miss that?
It seems like this computer shop fellow voluntarily gave over this hard drive only after the computer in question became his property (as a result of someone not collecting the computer and not paying the bill)
LOL now this post has been flagged wtfff
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#15Can anyone with a Twitter confirm this is happening? I assume Twitter will stop censoring it once this goes viral. Edit: Politics entirely aside. We need the truth on Twitter’s actions before we lose the chance.
Yeah, I just tried it, I got:
> We can't complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our Help Center to learn more.
NPR reporter:
> From Twitter spox: "In line with our Hacked Materials Policy, as well as our approach to blocking URLs, we are taking action to block any links to or images of the material in question on Twitter."
https://twitter.com/shannonpareil/status/1316452038465724417
Which is completely nonsense as a reason; you can, to use just one of a million examples, freely post this story on twitter:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-tru...
Facebook is also suppressing the story.
Quite remarkable.
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#16Interestingly they failed to stop discussion of it from becoming a top trending item.
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#17I think it is crazy that twitter has gone down this path. Being the arbiter of truth makes their job much harder and doesn’t seem to have a big upside. If they have an agenda they want to push the upside might be there but otherwise it’s just a perpetual shitshow.
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#18not coincidentally on trending:
Streisand Effect
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#19I'm struggling to see how this story is evidence of anything.
Steve Bannon—one of Trump's chief cronies—provided a mixed bag of allegedly stolen content from a laptop with some easily contrived "evidence" against Biden and Trump.
There don't seem to be any direct ties even to Hunter Biden, let alone his dad. Publishing this is a gift to Trump.
History may not repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.
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#20Robert Graham [1] pointed out that if the emails are authentic, they can be trivially verified via DKIM. That the email metadata was not released implies the emails are either inauthentic, or that the post did not contact someone with basic competence in computer forensics. Either possibility seriously undercuts the article's credibility. [1] https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1316407424648179717
it's honestly irrelevant about the credibility of the emails and other data at this point, its the blanket censorship of this article that's now the real story.