[Politics] Jack Dorsey - Twitter CEO. Likely subpoena to appear before congress next Friday.

larus said:

The accusation is that Twitter is filtering genuine interest stories because of the companies’ political views. There are a lot of stories going around which, if true, will prove the Joe Biden has lied about his knowledge of/involvement with Hunters business dealings and, that Joe Biden has also used political influence to remove a prosecutor in Ukraine who was investigating a company which Hunter was heavily involved with.

Now, Twitter says that it is politically neutral and it has banned this story as it is based on stolen evidence (from Hunter Bidens own laptop). However, they weren’t as concerned when it involved Trumps tax returns.

From my understanding of how the social media platforms want to portray themselves is that they don’t want to be legally liable for what is published on it’s platform (I.e. like an editor), as they say they can’t police everything.

The original story (about Hunter) was from the New York Post and they have had their Twitter posts about this story blocked too.

If Trump has cheated his tax returns, then that’s a public interest story (as yet unproven).
If Joe Biden has used his political office (VP) to benefit his son then that is also a public interest story (again, also unproven).

Think Jack will get a tough time next Friday is subpoenaed.

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larus said:

If Joe Biden has used his political office (VP) to benefit his son then that is also a public interest story (again, also unproven).

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clapham_gull said:

Except the tax returns weren't stolen.

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brightn'ove said:

Doesn't trump do this with every single on of his spawn?

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larus said:

I believe that the data came from Hunters old laptop which he put in for repair. I think the old disk has now passed onto the FBI.

Re Trumps tax returns. These are private, so how did they get to the reporter then? Someone stole them.

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larus said:

I would have thought most intelligent people would say that there is a huge difference between employing members of your family as staff, and using your position as VP to threaten another country with withholding $1bln in aid unless they sack a prosecutor investigating a company your son is heavily linked with.

As I said, most intelligent people would.

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larus said:

The accusation is that Twitter is filtering genuine interest stories because of the companies’ political views. There are a lot of stories going around which, if true, will prove the Joe Biden has lied about his knowledge of/involvement with Hunters business dealings and, that Joe Biden has also used political influence to remove a prosecutor in Ukraine who was investigating a company which Hunter was heavily involved with.

Now, Twitter says that it is politically neutral and it has banned this story as it is based on stolen evidence (from Hunter Bidens own laptop). However, they weren’t as concerned when it involved Trumps tax returns.

From my understanding of how the social media platforms want to portray themselves is that they don’t want to be legally liable for what is published on it’s platform (I.e. like an editor), as they say they can’t police everything.

The original story (about Hunter) was from the New York Post and they have had their Twitter posts about this story blocked too.

If Trump has cheated his tax returns, then that’s a public interest story (as yet unproven).
If Joe Biden has used his political office (VP) to benefit his son then that is also a public interest story (again, also unproven).

Think Jack will get a tough time next Friday is subpoenaed.

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Marlton and Hove Albion said:

I just live here as a long time visitor with no dog in this hunt. I can't vote, so I'm not useful and this is a strange land getting stranger by the day. This is how I see things.

If the media didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all. Trump endured a 3 years 24x7 news cycle that started with the word RUSSIA and included the words PUTIN and CORRUPTION. This all based on a fabricated dossier that DNC and Hillary paid for. Everything I just wrote is a fact - not conjecture, no one disputes this. He was impeached based upon the dubious testimony of an anonymous whistleblower based on conversations with the leader of Ukraine. It now turns out - and everyone here knows it - that Joe Biden was engaged in influence peddling to help his son (read about this chequered past) extort money from MANY dubious companies, notably Ukraine. Everything I just wrote is probably factual. The big traditional media channels NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and print media, NYT, WAPO, LA Times are CLEARLY left wingers. They don't try to hide that fact and neutral sources have proven the bias over and over again. i can send the source links if people want them. Now the digital media FB, TW, Google are in on the act in a big way. Whether you like the orange man or not, they don't play with a straight bat, they really don't. It's Trump this, Trump that all day and all night when it's something he did. Honestly, that is what the average Joe is sick and tired of and what got him elected in the first place.

Take it or leave it, this is one expats view on things.

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Marlton and Hove Albion said:

I just live here as a long time visitor with no dog in this hunt. I can't vote, so I'm not useful and this is a strange land getting stranger by the day. This is how I see things.

If the media didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all. Trump endured a 3 years 24x7 news cycle that started with the word RUSSIA and included the words PUTIN and CORRUPTION. This all based on a fabricated dossier that DNC and Hillary paid for. Everything I just wrote is a fact - not conjecture, no one disputes this. He was impeached based upon the dubious testimony of an anonymous whistleblower based on conversations with the leader of Ukraine. It now turns out - and everyone here knows it - that Joe Biden was engaged in influence peddling to help his son (read about this chequered past) extort money from MANY dubious companies, notably Ukraine. Everything I just wrote is probably factual. The big traditional media channels NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and print media, NYT, WAPO, LA Times are CLEARLY left wingers. They don't try to hide that fact and neutral sources have proven the bias over and over again. i can send the source links if people want them. Now the digital media FB, TW, Google are in on the act in a big way. Whether you like the orange man or not, they don't play with a straight bat, they really don't. It's Trump this, Trump that all day and all night when it's something he did. Honestly, that is what the average Joe is sick and tired of and what got him elected in the first place.

Take it or leave it, this is one expats view on things.

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drew said:

Well you live there so it must all be true.

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