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    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 3 10:26:51 2022
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on Twitter.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Sat Dec 3 16:21:05 2022
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.

    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read. “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous
    graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed, according to archives, which were leaked from the laptop that the New
    York Post first uncovered. In one image, Hunter Biden’s nudity is
    blotted out by red digital paint.

    Also on October 24, the Democratic National Committee requested two
    tweets related to Hunter Biden be removed. One, from James Wood, was a
    parody Biden presidential ad displaying his son smoking what appears to
    be a crack pipe.

    End quote.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 3 17:15:04 2022
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.
    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read. “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed,

    I see....did the Biden team care about your tweets of your genitalia?
    I doubt it.

    ScottW

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to ScottW on Sat Dec 3 22:46:15 2022
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 8:15:05 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.
    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read. “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed,
    I see....did the Biden team care about your tweets of your genitalia?
    I doubt it.

    ScottW

    The Biden admin wants to cut off my genitalia and create a Barbie pocket.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Sun Dec 4 17:01:03 2022
    On 12/3/22 7:15 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.
    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first
    installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read.
    “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous
    graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed,

    I see...

    So how is it wrong for the DNC to want stolen nude pictures posted
    against twitter rules taken down?

    And why didn't Taibbi share the tweets the Trump White House had removed?

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 5 08:33:56 2022
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 3:01:06 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 7:15 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.
    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first
    installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read.
    “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous >> graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed,

    I see...
    So how is it wrong for the DNC to want stolen nude pictures posted
    against twitter rules taken down?

    It's wrong because they only cared because it was the presidents son
    and potentially election altering.

    And why didn't Taibbi share the tweets the Trump White House had removed?

    Good question. Most of their complaints appear to be over blocked tweets and banned users.
    But if there is more....I'd like to know.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Dec 5 11:11:02 2022
    On 12/5/22 10:33 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 3:01:06 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 7:15 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.
    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first
    installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read. >>>> “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous >>>> graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed, >>>
    I see...
    So how is it wrong for the DNC to want stolen nude pictures posted
    against twitter rules taken down?

    It's wrong because they only cared because it was the presidents son
    and potentially election altering.

    It's against their rules and anyone could complain. If the capacity to
    ask objectionable content be removed is available to everyone, it's not
    special treatment to respond to, say, the DNC.

    And why didn't Taibbi share the tweets the Trump White House had removed?

    Good question. Most of their complaints appear to be over blocked tweets and banned users.
    But if there is more....I'd like to know.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/

    Brad Parscale: Yeah. So Facebook now lets you get to places and places
    possibly that you would never go with TV ads. Now, I can find, you know,
    15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV
    commercial for. And, we took opportunities that I think the other side
    didn't.

    Lesley Stahl: Like what?

    Brad Parscale: Well, we had our-- their staff embedded inside our offices.

    Lesley Stahl: What?

    Brad Parscale: Yeah, Facebook employees would show up for work every day
    in our offices.

    Lesley Stahl: Whoa, wait a minute. Facebook employees showed up at the
    Trump headquarters --

    Brad Parscale: Google employees, and Twitter employees.

    Lesley Stahl: They were embedded in your campaign?

    Brad Parscale: I mean, like, they were there multiple days a week,
    three, four days a week, two days week, five days a week --

    Lesley Stahl: What were they doing inside? I mean --

    Brad Parscale: Helping teach us how to use their platform. I wanna
    get --

    Lesley Stahl: Helping him get elected?

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 5 10:04:03 2022
    On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 9:11:04 AM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/5/22 10:33 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 3:01:06 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 7:15 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/3/22 12:26 PM, ScottW wrote:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/top-five-bombshells-musks-disclosure-suppression-biden-laptop

    This is just 1.

    Taibbi shared screenshots in which members from the Biden team or the Democratic National Committee flagged tweets for Twitter. Most of those tweets were no longer available when checked by the Washington Examiner. Musk later took note of that on
    Twitter.
    “More to review from the Biden team,” the message, from the first >>>> installment of the documents analyzed by journalist Matt Taibbi, read. >>>> “Handled,” was the reply.

    Three of the tweets, from since-suspended accounts, featured scandalous >>>> graphic images of the president’s son posing with his genitalia exposed,

    I see...
    So how is it wrong for the DNC to want stolen nude pictures posted
    against twitter rules taken down?

    It's wrong because they only cared because it was the presidents son
    and potentially election altering.
    It's against their rules and anyone could complain. If the capacity to
    ask objectionable content be removed is available to everyone, it's not special treatment to respond to, say, the DNC.
    And why didn't Taibbi share the tweets the Trump White House had removed?

    Good question. Most of their complaints appear to be over blocked tweets and banned users.
    But if there is more....I'd like to know.
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/

    Brad Parscale: Yeah. So Facebook now lets you get to places and places possibly that you would never go with TV ads. Now, I can find, you know,
    15 people in the Florida Panhandle that I would never buy a TV
    commercial for. And, we took opportunities that I think the other side didn't.

    Lesley Stahl: Like what?

    Brad Parscale: Well, we had our-- their staff embedded inside our offices.

    Lesley Stahl: What?

    Brad Parscale: Yeah, Facebook employees would show up for work every day
    in our offices.

    Lesley Stahl: Whoa, wait a minute. Facebook employees showed up at the
    Trump headquarters --

    Brad Parscale: Google employees, and Twitter employees.

    Lesley Stahl: They were embedded in your campaign?

    Brad Parscale: I mean, like, they were there multiple days a week,
    three, four days a week, two days week, five days a week --

    Lesley Stahl: What were they doing inside? I mean --

    Brad Parscale: Helping teach us how to use their platform. I wanna
    get --

    Lesley Stahl: Helping him get elected?

    As If they don't take every opportunity to monetize their platform.

    But this has nothing to do with censorship....unless the facebook employees took this "insider info" back to their office and used it to thwart the campaigns efforts.
    Take their money and f 'em anyway.
    At this point anything is possible yet none of this compares to FBI censorship.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Dec 5 13:42:48 2022
    On 12/5/22 10:33 AM, ScottW wrote:
    It's wrong because they only cared because it was the presidents son
    and potentially election altering.

    Potentially but not actually:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/05/trump-2020-election-hunter-biden-laptop/

    ...there’s no evidence that the restriction imposed by Twitter (or
    Facebook) actually kept interested people from learning about the story. Consider one metric by which we can evaluate interest in Hunter Biden:
    Google search interest.

    It was only after the social media companies moved to restrict sharing
    of the story that search interest began to climb. The peak came in the
    early evening, at which point searches in the U.S. were five times what they’d been in the morning... Through the rest of October, search
    interest in Hunter Biden remained well above where it had been before
    the Post’s first report.

    Then there’s the poll that Trump and his allies love to cite. In late November 2020, the right-wing organization Media Research Center (MRC) —
    a group predicated on presenting the traditional media as inherently oppositional to conservative politics — released the results of a poll
    in which it claimed that blocking the story cost Trump the election. “According to our poll,” the organization wrote a few weeks after Trump lost, “full awareness of the Hunter Biden scandal would have led 9.4% of Biden voters to abandon the Democratic candidate, flipping all six of
    the swing states he won to Trump, giving the President 311 electoral votes.”

    What’s important here is the question that was asked. The MRC shared a summary of the poll findings, that includes the question:
    “At the time you cast your vote for president, were you aware that
    evidence exists, including bank transactions the FBI is currently investigating, that directly links Joe Biden and his family to a corrupt financial arrangement between a Chinese company with connections to the
    Chinese Communist Party that was secretly intended to provide the Biden
    family with tens of millions of dollars in profits?”

    This is not a supportable presentation of the situation now, much less
    th[e]n.

    End quote.

    Analysis by Philip Bump.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Dec 5 13:43:02 2022
    On 12/5/22 12:04 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 9:11:04 AM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/


    Brad Parscale: And, we took opportunities that I think the >> other side didn't.

    Lesley Stahl: Like what?

    Brad Parscale: Well, we had our-- their staff embedded inside our
    offices.

    <snip>

    Lesley Stahl: What were they doing inside? I mean --

    Brad Parscale: Helping teach us how to use their platform. I wanna
    get --

    Lesley Stahl: Helping him get elected?

    As If they don't take every opportunity to monetize their platform.

    In this case, monetizing meant helping the Trump campaign. They offered
    to help the Democrats, too, but they weren't welcomed.

    But this has nothing to do with censorship....unless the facebook
    employees took this "insider info" back to their office and used it
    to thwart the campaigns efforts.

    Neither does the laptop story. There was no specific order from the
    government.

    Take their money and f 'em anyway. At this point anything is possible
    yet none of this compares to FBI censorship.

    Hard to compare something to nothing.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 5 14:19:09 2022
    On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 11:42:50 AM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/5/22 10:33 AM, ScottW wrote:
    It's wrong because they only cared because it was the presidents son
    and potentially election altering.
    Potentially but not actually:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/05/trump-2020-election-hunter-biden-laptop/

    ...there’s no evidence that the restriction imposed by Twitter (or Facebook) actually kept interested people from learning about the story.

    Lamest excuse yet.

    Now only "interested" people can listen to free speech.
    Well....that definitely puts you in the silent closet.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Dec 6 09:31:36 2022
    On 12/5/22 4:19 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 11:42:50 AM UTC-8, MINe109 wrote:
    On 12/5/22 10:33 AM, ScottW wrote:
    It's wrong because they only cared because it was the presidents son
    and potentially election altering.
    Potentially but not actually:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/05/trump-2020-election-hunter-biden-laptop/

    ...there’s no evidence that the restriction imposed by Twitter (or
    Facebook) actually kept interested people from learning about the story.

    Lamest excuse yet.

    But supported by evidence.

    Now only "interested" people can listen to free speech. > Well....that definitely puts you in the silent closet.

    It works even without being interested:

    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/12/hunter-bidens-laptop-the-stupidest-story-of-all-time
    "A bold claim I know, but apparently Elon Musk thinks the First
    Amendment doesn’t mean anything any more because “the government” censored the Hunter Biden laptop story right before the 2020 election.

    I just did a quick check and there were TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR stories published about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the three
    weeks prior to the 2020 election.

    In case you’re wondering this is not hyperbole: This is the exact number
    in the Lexis news data base, which of course is not comprehensive, so
    the real number is higher."

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