The Twitter Files

Post by ethanbond » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 2:40 PM UTC

tomohawk wrote: post #826

andreyk wrote: post #108

It does not seem like this really exposed any new information - Twitter publicly justified its actions as being about its hacked data policy back when this all happened ( https://www.nationalreview.com/news/twitter-cites-hacked-mat... ). All this shows is some internal disagreement as to whether that was the right call. By the way, Facebook also suppressed the news story citing its misinformation policy ( https://www…

There's nothing really new in your post either, since it misses the whole point. All your post does is restate the obvious. It was obvious the story was true and that Twitter covered it up. The news worthiness of this is that, just before a very close election, Twitter was used to hide information for political purposes. Not only that, the White House press secretary had her account suspended for calling Twitter on i…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #223

Dig1t wrote: post #16

I'm a moderate, not a Democrat and not a Republican. I think people on the left have a blind spot here, that the more suppression they use, the more division they create, and the more moderates and people on the right grow to resent them. I would have identified as a Democrat on pretty much every issue, but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely. At this p…

> but this authoritarian suppression of speech and ideas has just pushed me away from that side completely So as a moderate you prefer DeSantis approach to Disney, his forbidding of speech in schools, etc.? He's not passing literal anti press and anti speech laws to piss off the MAGA base. It's remarkable to me he so badly wanted props for punishing Disney for exercising free speech he forgot he's supposed to be pro…

Post by Akronymus » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 2:49 PM UTC

hairofadog wrote: post #835

thelock85 wrote: post #829

So interesting to see if this will affect politics since midterms have passed. At least at the moment I don’t think free speech (esp via Twitter) is a priority over guns, crime, economy and reproductive rights for the average voter, or that any candidates want to seriously hold that mantle. I wonder if and how that will change going into the next election cycle.

I expect the new Republican Congress will drag this out Benghazi-like for as long as they hold the majority, and it will become tiresome to all except congressional grandstanders and my late father who will somehow find a way to forward me emails about it from wherever his happy place is beyond the grave.

Post by iamdbtoo » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 2:50 PM UTC

refurb wrote: post #853

chrisbaker98 wrote: post #705

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> citing different policies that are obviously inconsistently applied Here's a better example: the Canadian trucker protests. GiveSendGo was hacked, and the names of people who had donated to the protests were made public - and Twitter had no problem with those "hacked materials" being shared on its platform. I'd think that if there was ever a reason to block the publication of hacked materials, it would be to preven…

Pretty much this. It’s a set of rules selectively applied depending on whether or not your political allies or opponents are on the receiving end. Taibbi leans left and I don’t but I like reading his articles (despite premises I may not agree with) because he’s at least honest in his arguments and doesn’t try to bury or twist inconvenient facts.

Post by dekhn » Sat, Dec 03, 2022, 2:53 PM UTC

guiambros wrote: post #185

dekhn wrote: post #66

It's still kind of odd to think that you can be an in-favor executive at a company, then somebody else can buy your company, fire you, and go back and read all your work emails (many of which would be extremely sensitive) and share it with journalists who then screenshot it and share it with the world on the same platform that employed you! This was always a possibility (and a probability- my friend was a lawyer who…

The golden rule: before sending anything potentially sensitive, ask yourself: if this email/doc/note were to be published on the cover page of NYT, would you be embarrassed by it? If yes, don't send it, or rephrase it accordingly.