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It's not in the FBI's charter to "fix society" outside of the bounds of law. It's mind boggling to me that people are acting nonchalant about a government entity shaping public discourse in secret.

>>colord+(OP)
If - for instance - Mike Pence had been murdered (and I believe there was a real possibility that that could have happened) I'm pretty sure that you'd be playing an entirely different tune. The FBI is free to interpret the law and you are free to take them to court if you don't agree with their interpretation. This does not normally need to be spelled out.

Next time you receive a request from the police that you think is reasonable try stonewalling them and see what happens. I guarantee you won't like it.

And as far as the secrecy is concerned: records were kept, that's why you are reading about this.

>>jacque+d1
I have no idea how to respond to your comment. You seem to be coming from a world view that has no overlap with mine. I have zero understanding why you'd so condescendingly argue that we should just accept shady behavior by the FBI.

>>colord+s7
I don't see anything shady. And being pretty anti-authoritarian and having been in contact with LE many, many times over the years including the FBI what struck me first and foremost in all of that is that they did their utmost best to keep it clean.

>>jacque+U7
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies

And these are just the big ones. They've pushed for back doors into iPhones for instance.

I don't care how trustworthy anyone thinks they are. No one should be able to just arbitrarily transcend the law because they are "clean".

>>colord+s7
The central issue here is Musk's political leanings go against many here. Therefore, everything is Musk's fault. Nothing he does is good.

>>theone+ba
I am extremely unhappy with what he has been doing on twitter, especially the account bans. But I am not a binary thinker, so I can still make an attempt to look at these releases objectively. And some of them are not that interesting, but some of the details are actually quite bad, and people aren't looking at them due to their disgust with Musk. I almost didn't look at this one.

>>colord+19
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the subject of this thread, the 'Twitter Files'.

If we're going to discuss the FBI in a larger setting I would consider that to be out of scope, to me the discussion is limited to the interaction between social media companies and law enforcement in general and the FBI in particular.

>>jacque+qb
Please refer the whole thread before claiming it has nothing to do with the subject.

>>theone+ba
It could also be said the central issue is that Twitter's political leanings went against many elsewhere, therefor, everything is a conspiracy and nothing done was done with good intentions.