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1. chasd0+u8[view] [source] 2024-08-27 11:30:31
>>southe+(OP)
When the platforms starting censoring during the pandemic and last election cycle I remember saying they better get it right 100% of the time because the moment they get it wrong their credibility is shot. Hear we are.

Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.

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2. driver+FR[view] [source] 2024-08-27 16:17:12
>>chasd0+u8
> Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail.

Censorship, as you call it, is a requirement for any platform. It's better to call it moderation. Without it platforms would be 99% spam. I assume you support "censoring" spam so that means you support some level of moderation.

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3. dilap+9Z[view] [source] 2024-08-27 16:46:50
>>driver+FR
Spam is a real problem, but when your platform is doing things like disallowing linking to a NY Post article on the Hunter Biden laptop or mentioning the possibility that COVID originated from a lab-leak, then I think pretty clearly the term "censorship" is more apt than "moderation".

Also, to the extent that a platform is surfacing content based on a friend or follow model, then that itself is intrinsically sufficient moderation for the spam problem (because you can simply unfriend or unfollow spam accounts).

(Spam friend requests and follows still need to be addressed, however.)

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4. BlueTe+Q51[view] [source] 2024-08-27 17:13:22
>>dilap+9Z
Sounds like it's the FBI's credibility that is shot - imagine Facebook had done nothing and it HAD been a Russian propaganda operation ?
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5. SV_Bub+bh1[view] [source] 2024-08-27 18:07:16
>>BlueTe+Q51
> HAD been a Russian propaganda operation

But it wasn’t.

And everyone who looked the videos of Hunter smoking crack, and his text messages discussing Joe Biden involved in business dealings, and his relationship with his 24yo niece knew it wasn’t “Russian Disinformation”.

It was obviously real, and hidden from everyone in order to influence the election.

It was censorship at request of the government and election interference.

We don’t need the WHAT-IF it wasn’t.

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6. laidof+AK1[view] [source] 2024-08-27 20:28:45
>>SV_Bub+bh1
It was almost definitely an iCloud hack laundered through a laptop (last Mac of its kind to not have at rest encryption on by default IIRC) provided to a conveniently blind computer technician who happened to know Rudy Giuliani personally.

I think anybody can tell this information wasn’t obtained fraudulently. It is notable though that the same press is currently sitting on hacked documents from Iran from the Trump campaign…

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7. flanke+9v3[view] [source] 2024-08-28 13:33:30
>>laidof+AK1
A crackhead forgot his laptop at a repair shop and refused to collect it.
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8. laidof+0j4[view] [source] 2024-08-28 18:11:50
>>flanke+9v3
Lets think about this step by step.

1. Why would a repair shop accept a repair job without the return information?

2. Why would a repair shop start snooping on their own client's machines even if they were unable to contact their client?

3. Why are there multiple disk images, some "raw" and some pre-organized released to different press organizations and Trump sympathizers?

4. Why did the FBI warn Facebook in 2020 about the laptop story to "cover it up" when the FBI at the time was lead by a man appointed by Trump himself?

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