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>>GavCo+(OP)
Learned basically nothing here. So the FBI helped Twitter with content moderation? Who gives a crap.

>>leoh+eM
When people become a sworn officer of the FBI or any other federal LEO officer, they take an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. When instead of upholding the Constitution, they ask a private company to violate people's first ammendment rights, that is an abuse of power.

It may be within Twitters terms of service to ban people and censor people, and that may be fine for Twitter, but for a sworn officer to use Twitter to censor people - that is an abuse of power.

Of course, the files also show that Twitter personnel acted in bad faith and didn't follow their own ToS.

>>tomoha+nP
Not a violation of free speech to tell Twitter to take down illegal content.

>>roflye+vQ
Twitter took stuff down at the government's request even though they couldn't find a violation of their own ToS, let alone determine that things were illegal.

>>kodyo+4V
Can you cite an example of that? I've read all of the threads so far and none of them demonstrate an account being taken down at the government's request.

>>djur+t31
The document dump contains evidence of government agents telling Twitter to "look into" things and Twitter responding that they "handled" it.

Government thugs don't need to give explicit orders to have their wishes followed, especially if the thugs in question make it sound like they share your ideological goals.

Nice little company you got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.

>>kodyo+c71
This is incorrect. The "handled" response you're referring to was regarding a list of links to leaked nudes of Hunter Biden reported by the Biden campaign:

https://i0.wp.com/www.techdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/1...

As I've said, Taibbi has been very clear that he has no evidence of government involvement in any response to the Hunter Biden story.