Can we stop with the {ignore the current issue} + {point at something else} two-step?
I realize partisan news has normalized that method of discourse, but it's a boring and braindead way to argue.
In the real world, the existence of other bad things doesn't make a particular bad thing disappear.
No it's not boring at all. Trump is not an unknown. He was president 2016-2020. Not a single corporation was strong armed as evidenced by the fact that every single major social media platform and 2/3 major cable networks actively worked against him without any repercussions other than ever lowering viewership.
What that shows is that Trump's rhetoric is just that.
By contrast, the Biden administration said they would protect speech and instead worked actively to censor regular Americans, de-banked political opponents, and strong armed social media into enforcing their COVID policy.
I'd rather have the big talk guy that does nothing than the nice guy that behaved like a dictator.
It may also just show that he didn’t have the support and team at the time to get away with it, but we shall see if it is all just rhetoric
Trump repeatedly sent takedown requests to Twitter in his first term … for things as serious as celebrities bad mouthing him. He’s actively suing CBS because he didn’t like their interview with Kamala. He filed a frivolous defamation suit against The NY Times, likewise CNN and some random news station in Wisconsin. why do people pretend like this stuff didn’t happen or is somehow less worthy of mention than whatever Biden did?
All these allegations are ex twitter staffers. We know twitter has an intense liberal bias based on their previous composition.
The article firstly describes documented cases of politicians demanding uncensoring (reinstating banned accounts).
As evidence of takedowns it says:
> And over the years, the knowledgeable sources say, staffers for Republican officials would regularly flag to Twitter content that they believed violated the app’s terms of service or other policies, including on spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
Who are these knowledgeable sources?
I'd like to read more about the accusations about Biden, especially the debanking allegations but so far I just find stuff from some Andreesen (?) appearance on "joe rogan" which wouldn't count as reliable information in my opinion. Course that could also be because internet search sucks nowadays lol
the best I can find only reinforces my suspicions that if its on "joe rogan" then miss me with that mess haha
https://jabberwocking.com/choke-point-2-0-a-primer-on-the-ri...