The Twitter Files

[RblDiver]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

Short version, yup, tons of collusion between Twitter employees and government employees to censor information, though apparently more of a "Oops we made a mistake, let's keep going with it" than "Grand conspiracy" material. Also, senior execs managed to keep it from then-CEO Jack Dorsey.

[Singlestack]

Dorsey seemed to impress me early on as a bit clueless but not rabidly leftist like many. This seems to support that. The early disclosures were pretty much what we have known. Guessing by the lefty freakout there is more, and more damaging, revelations upcoming. I'm interested in seeing evidence of 1st amendment censorship collusion with DNC and the white house. The smoke hints at it strongly.

[Aloha_Shooter]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

Short version, yup, tons of collusion between Twitter employees and government employees to censor information, though apparently more of a "Oops we made a mistake, let's keep going with it" than "Grand conspiracy" material. Also, senior execs managed to keep it from then-CEO Jack Dorsey.

Not quite.

The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.

“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”

That sounds very much like an intentional act by Gadde and others, not "oops, we made a mistake". Gadde's history has shown she is an ideologue and partisan so this isn't any surprise and as Chief Legal Officer, none of the peons below were willing to try to reverse her.

Jim Baker, who advised to "stay the course", was also an ardent partisan and anti-Trumper so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of doubt in making an honest mistake. It looks more like using the appearance of caution to cover for a blatantly partisan impulse. Add the collusion with Democrat lawmakers who wanted more "moderation" and it looks more and more like conspiracy to keep information on the Bidens' foreign dealings out of the news until after the election.

[RblDiver]

The latest: Twitter attorney Jim Baker was "exited" from the company. Looks like he may have been trying to censor some of the files being released, omitting references to his former FBI employers.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...YPLxV1_y_AFYnA

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1...ulRbL72WkrgTdw

[BushMasterBoy]

Sounds like the X-Files, eventually they get solved. Usually a tale of who is doing who, in the zoo! It would be really fun to own a rocket firm, an ISP and a social media outlet. Am I being too cryptic?

[Aloha_Shooter]

I'd say more obtuse than cryptic but whatever floats your boat ...

[Singlestack]

For those that have been paying attention, the twitter files are really nothing more so far than providing receipts for what we already knew had to be happening. I'm interested in new dumps showing evidence of collusion/collaboration between FBI-Twitter. White House-Twitter, and other social media-Twitter (Facebook, google, Youtube, Instagram, etc). This has all kinds of angles, from 1st degree gov violation of 1st amendment, election interference, antitrust violations, corruption, tax-exempt activity, and section 290 violations.

The hard part about this is even if the house makes criminal referrals to the (in)justice dept, it will take a new prez in 2024 to install a new AG & justice dept to actually do anything about it.

[RblDiver]

The Removal of Donald Trump, Part One: Oct 2020-Jan 6th
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281

[arbol]

Reddit, out right banned, the_donald, never looked back.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

-John

[RblDiver]

Part 4, the removal of Trump
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/...20455005511680

(And since I forgot to post it, Part 2, Secret Blacklists)
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status...07575633305600

Apparently only _one_ person, who was low level, had serious concerns:
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/...38099062558720
"This might be an unpopular opinion but one off ad hoc decisions like this that don't appear rooted in policy are imho a slippery slope and reflect an alternatively equally dictatorial problem. This now appears to be a fiat by an online platform CEO with a global presence that can gatekeep speech for the entire world - which seems unsustainable."