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Elon Musk announces Twitter suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story

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Coming back to this thread i have two main takeaways:

1) Alt-righters don't understand the concept of content moderation and why it's important. Content supression my ass, this is why Musky Balls feels so empowered with his new toy

2) For the right wingers it's always CP, wich given their tendency to projection raises some legitimate concerns. Good thing is, they can never prove what they accuse others of, but they're always caught doing it. Oh, to be a fly on the walls of the filthy basement they live in!
I mean for #2 I don't get the wild conspiracy theories around child sex abuse and at the same time tolerating people like Matt Gaetz.
 
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Why would this make Gabe Newell look bad?


This has nothing to do with "trust," Foxi takes offense to the way a report to Twitter from the government would take priority over any average Joe's. The thing is, that's true for any entity or individual that's rich or powerful enough, a report from Exxon Mobil or Taylor Swift is gonna take the same kind of priority. That's just capitalism, and it's the least shocking thing you could accuse any corporation of, tech-based or otherwise.

he'll annouce a steam deck 2 for twice as much.
 

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I mean for #2 I don't get the wild conspiracy theories around child sex abuse and at the same time tolerating people like Matt Gaetz.
First thing i don't get is why they boast of being christian, good people and all that shit and tolerate republicans themselves, with Trump - and now DeSantis - being the best possible example
 

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First thing i don't get is why they boast of being christian, good people and all that shit and tolerate republicans themselves, with Trump - and now DeSantis - being the best possible example
christianity is like santa claus and the easter bunny: another fairy tale. however, idiots don't grow out of it. they just use it as a story to justify their cruelty, in all of its many inconsistencies.
 
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They're always a mouthful of scripture, with a heart full of hate, and doing the exact opposite of what Jesus would have actually done as a loving, living person. It's no different than political promises being unkept after you've been elected.
 

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christianity is like santa claus and the easter bunny: another fairy tale. however, idiots don't grow out of it. they just use it as a story to justify their cruelty, in all of its many inconsistencies.
But that's the thing: They don't follow christianity, they follow what they're told christianity is, wich more often than not is just a lump of hate agaisnt the non white, non straight and generally non right leaning people.

Honestly, Jesus would beat the shit out of every preacher nowadays.
 

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Coming back to this thread i have two main takeaways:

1) Alt-righters don't understand the concept of content moderation and why it's important. Content supression my ass, this is why Musky Balls feels so empowered with his new toy

2) For the right wingers it's always CP, wich given their tendency to projection raises some legitimate concerns. Good thing is, they can never prove what they accuse others of, but they're always caught doing it. Oh, to be a fly on the walls of the filthy basement they live in!

You seem to respect Twitter's action in scrubbing the laptop story, but you haven't made the argument to why it was "good moderation".

Why would you want to be the fly on a wall peeping in on someone you just suggested entertains CP?

The degeneracy is strong in this one.
 

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You seem to respect Twitter's action in scrubbing the laptop story, but you haven't made the argument to why it was "good moderation".

Why would you want to be the fly on a wall peeping in on someone you just suggested entertains CP?

The degeneracy is strong in this one.

you were so close to hitting the nail on the head here, they respect scrubbing as it relates to CP its almost as if they respect...
 

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Folks who say "the other side does it, too" aren't exactly self-aware enough to realize what they are confessing. It's not a partisan issue.
 

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You seem to respect Twitter's action in scrubbing the laptop story, but you haven't made the argument to why it was "good moderation".

Why would you want to be the fly on a wall peeping in on someone you just suggested entertains CP?

The degeneracy is strong in this one.
you were so close to hitting the nail on the head here, they respect scrubbing as it relates to CP its almost as if they respect...
The projection is strong with you two. Reading comprehension though...
 

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The projection is strong with you two. Reading comprehension though...
Please point out where you made an argument about good "content moderation" in scrubbing the news from the platform.

Bonus points on why you would want to be a fly on the wall in some pervert's fap-den.

Oh, to be a fly on the walls of the filthy basement they live in!

Republicans existing and doing the same thing doesn't make an issue a non-issue. Crimes are committed by people, not colors. Both Democrats and Republicans have shown signs of willingness to employ gestapo, controlling speech, and employing and protecting abusers from receiving justice.

If you think that Twitter did the right thing and protected you from becoming aware of the Biden laptop, entertain your reasoning. Was it necessary for government to officially step in, and why do you think so?

If your response is simply to defend *blue* with the argument that *red* does it too, you may just be blind to the fact that you are promoting the degeneracy in both--and using crimes against people as a political currency.
 
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you were so close to hitting the nail on the head here, they respect scrubbing as it relates to CP its almost as if they respect...
You realize that Twitter had a CP problem with the old staff.... right? Like the Megalinks shit? Now thats Elon Musk owns said platform they been taking care of it UNLIKE the old staff, Like REMOVING IT????
 
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There’s a built-in system for updating the Constitution, should it need updating. In the case of the 1st, it does not - the sentiment is pretty clear, and it’s “hands off”.
And of course, you AGAIN fail to recognize this story isn't about the government reporting a post.
Your made up fantasy that this is government interference is just ideologically deranged garbage.

I could accept a "republicans or democrats shouldn't have more rights than me to report a post" but even that is just a ridiculous statement. People in high places have more power than you, Trump/Nigel Farage/Boris or whatever other leader who has convinced you that they are one of the people are just fucking with you.

But it's a change to see you asking for communism.
 

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And of course, you AGAIN fail to recognize this story isn't about the government reporting a post.
Your made up fantasy that this is government interference is just ideologically deranged garbage.

I could accept a "republicans or democrats shouldn't have more rights than me to report a post" but even that is just a ridiculous statement. People in high places have more power than you, Trump/Nigel Farage/Boris or whatever other leader who has convinced you that they are one of the people are just fucking with you.

But it's a change to see you asking for communism.
Talking to you is a waste of time. I’ve specified a dozen of times that I don’t care about the specific story, I care that there’s a government-private corporation pipeline that exists specifically to report posts the government wants removed from the platform. That’s fascism - the intersection of big business and the state, with one hand washing the other. If you don’t understand that, there’s nothing for us to talk about. Twitter did exactly what was asked of them by the DNC, that’s the highlight of the particular story, but not the crux of the issue. The issue is that the pipeline exists at all.
 
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