Comment by starik36

5 months ago

That was certainly the case with Twitter. It came out during the congressional hearings. FBI had a direct line to the decision makers.

> was certainly the case with Twitter

It was not. No threats were made, and Twitter didn’t blindly follow the FBI’s guidance.

The simple truth is the leftist elements that wanted to control the debate were there in the White House and in Twitter’s San Francisco offices. Nobody had to be coerced, they were coördinating.

A direct line to threaten decision makers? Or to point out possible misinformation spreaders?

  • Threaten. Because of the implication.

    • > Because of the implication

      What was the implication? Twitter had no business in front of the federal government. They were wilfully complying.

      That doesn't make it okay. But it's a total retconning of actual history to suggest this was government censorship in any form.

    • Musk owned Twitter for years of the Biden admin, at least one year of that was him openly simping for Trump.

      So... what sort of threat was this, that suddenly disappeared when Musk bought it? How credible was the threat if Musk was able to release the Twitter Files without repercussions from the Biden admin?

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