Twitter adopts 'poison pill' to prevent Elon Musk takeover

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Emails reveal internal struggle on handling of Hunter Biden laptop

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Taibbi's report reveals requests from President Joe Biden's campaign in the days before the 2020 election for Twitter to remove tweets the campaign flagged.  An email from a Twitter employee dated Oct. 24, 2020 includes six links to tweets. “More to review from the Biden team," the employee wrote. Another Twitter worker replied, "Handled these."

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Taibbi goes on to write, "Requests from both Donald Trump's White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored." He does not provide examples of tweets the Trump team flagged to Twitter

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Taibbi argues "this system wasn't balanced" because he says the majority of Twitter's employees are Democrats. To make that case, he pointed to the Twitter team's significantly greater campaign contributions to Democrats over Republicans.

All in all these reveals are mostly "meh".  But I think it shows Twitter in something of a positive light.  They were clearly debating it, and struggling with it.  To my eyes they at least tried to some to some reasoned conclusion. 

 

[Horseman 1,510]

23 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Do you think the Hunter pics from the referenced tweets did not violate the TOS?

They took em down because they were pornography. 

[TimHauck 1,795]

Just now, Horseman said:

They took em down because they were pornography. 

I’ll take that as you agree they should have been taken down, which contradicts your earlier statements 

[Horseman 1,510]

6 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

I’ll take that as you agree they should have been taken down, which contradicts your earlier statements 

Of course you will, because you're a foking moron. 

[jerryskids 5,169]

6 hours ago, Raven Fan said:

Haha in your zeal to prove that twitter allows porn you quickly threw up your most used link.

No wonder you lie about your wife all the time, you've outed yourself as a cok smoker.  Damn son, it's ok and all that you like to watch men suck cok and that you like to suck cok, but that's a hell of a way to come out of the closet.

Life loser indeed...I'm guessing you're the one who get's phuked by the other dude?

SAD

 

6 hours ago, Raven Fan said:

So we've learned that Biden and Trump had inroads to twitter.  We learned that Trump's FBI met with twitter.  And we learned that Horsesass is a pole smoker.

Out of those three, Horesesass outing himself as GAY is the least surprising tbh. 

You have a disturbing disgust of gay men.  Just saying.   

[TimHauck 1,795]

4 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Of course you will, because you're a foking moron. 

Ok then I’ll take this as you think they didn’t violate the TOS, which makes you absolutely retarded. 

[TimHauck 1,795]

2 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

 

You have a disturbing disgust of gay men.  Just saying.   

I think whoever called him as a craftsman/Utilit alias might be correct

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

45 minutes ago, RLLD said:

Emails reveal internal struggle on handling of Hunter Biden laptop

All in all these reveals are mostly "meh".  But I think it shows Twitter in something of a positive light.  They were clearly debating it, and struggling with it.  To my eyes they at least tried to some to some reasoned conclusion. 

 

Seems you’ve been going out of your way to be viewed as some kind of down the middle observer. Twitter suppressed the truth on behalf of a political party, with the aid of law enforcement and the blessings of elected officials.  Saying they contemplated doing the right thing but elected not to doesn’t make them look any better.  It’s worse. 

[jerryskids 5,169]

11 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

I think whoever called him as a craftsman/Utilit alias might be correct

Eh, posting styles are too different IMO.  Raven Fan strikes me as being like the neighbor dad in American Beauty.   

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

Fascism has to be the most misused and overused word of the last 6 years. Some overgrown children here were fond of using it.  Well at least we have some proof  of it now. 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 2,493]

7 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Fascism has to be the most misused and overused word of the last 6 years. Some overgrown children here were fond of using it.  Well at least we have some proof  of it now. 

That, and the word "Racism" or "Racist".  Those words used to actually mean something once upon on a time.  Now they just means "someone who disagrees with liberals".

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9 hours ago, Horseman said:

Ok guys we have a tough choice here.  Believe DummyHauck who thinks it's just purging of naked Hunter pics or the guy who actually owns all the information who undoubtedly will be testifying and providing the evidence to Congress.  

 

 

Tough choice! 

He is talking about requests to take down information… from the Biden campaign in 2020, when he was NOT a member of the US Government. So, either Musk is a focking moron who doesn’t understand that candidates aren’t government officials, or he’s just stirring up the rubes who ARE dumb enough to think that. If it’s the latter, he’s certainly succeeding with a number of GC members.

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9 hours ago, jerryskids said:

Gotcha, so we're going to wordsmith "censor" by saying they did not formally compel Twitter to do anything, they merely requested the behavior.

I wonder if there is anything illegal in the asking.  I also wonder if, in the absence of any refusal by Twitter to accommodate, there is de facto control.

The reason to ask is this: was it censorship when Trump’s White House asked them to take down posts and they did so? Because this whole “exposé” from Taibbi covers a time when Trump was president, and he confirms that happened. That kills the idea that Twitter was unfairly treating Trump, and also since most right-wingers seem ok with this, it kills their argument that any government request for a social media company to take something down amounts to censorship.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

Leftists are really mad at Musk. Why? Is he putting out false info? I guess it’s because he took their toy away and now he’s playing with it in front of them. Lol. 

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

34 minutes ago, dogcows said:

The reason to ask is this: was it censorship when Trump’s White House asked them to take down posts and they did so? Because this whole “exposé” from Taibbi covers a time when Trump was president, and he confirms that happened. That kills the idea that Twitter was unfairly treating Trump, and also since most right-wingers seem ok with this, it kills their argument that any government request for a social media company to take something down amounts to censorship.

When you take down a tweet that isn’t true, thats not censorship. When you won’t put a tweet out that is true, that’s censorship. Get it now? The laptop was true. They shut it down on behalf of the DNC, Biden campaign and at the urging and with the blessings of the govt. That’s the big takeaway.  Show Twitter suppressing tweets that were true on behalf of Trump and you’ll have something. Good luck with that. 

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5 hours ago, Shooter McGavin said:

The Atlantic: Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don't Understand the First Amendment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-and-tucker-carlson-dont-understand-the-first-amendment/672352//

This dude gets it, 95% of you don't.

Did you watch Tuckers show on Friday?  I did just now. 
Your bozo from The Atlantic is cherry picking big time. 

Watch Fridays episode and listen to what he says.  

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6 hours ago, Horseman said:

It's pretty clear to everyone you're not an expert on anything besides being an extremely low intelligent Life Loser. 

Learn to read dumbass. 

So lifeloser is homo code for homo.  Got it.

Don't want to come out of the closet don't post up gay links as your example of porn homo.

Now are you a top or bottom?

[Raven Fan 362]

5 hours ago, jerryskids said:

 

You have a disturbing disgust of gay men.  Just saying.   

How's that?  Horsesass spends him time on here bragging about his fake hot wife and calling others lifelosers.

Come to find out this fake hetero comes out as homo so I'm gonna call it out.  Try not to be so sensitive. 

[Shooter McGavin 589]

5 hours ago, SUXBNME said:

Did you watch Tuckers show on Friday?  I did just now. 
Your bozo from The Atlantic is cherry picking big time. 

Watch Fridays episode and listen to what he says.  

I get that tucker Carlson makes a convincing argument for less educated people, but I'm not watching him.  He can't be correct here no matter how he spins it.

[Shooter McGavin 589]

2 hours ago, Raven Fan said:

How's that?  Horsesass spends him time on here bragging about his fake hot wife and calling others lifelosers.

Come to find out this fake hetero comes out as homo so I'm gonna call it out.  Try not to be so sensitive. 

He admitted that his wife has sex with other dudes, so he probably watches and get off on it.  He's probably bisexual, and that's fine if that's what he's into.

Dude is a complete ass hole, but still doesn't deserve to be acted for his sexual orientation 

[TimHauck 1,795]

6 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

They shut it [the laptop story] down…at the urging…of the govt. That’s the big takeaway.  

Fake news.  No evidence of this.

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6 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

When you take down a tweet that isn’t true, thats not censorship. When you won’t put a tweet out that is true, that’s censorship. Get it now? The laptop was true. They shut it down on behalf of the DNC, Biden campaign and at the urging and with the blessings of the govt. That’s the big takeaway.  Show Twitter suppressing tweets that were true on behalf of Trump and you’ll have something. Good luck with that. 

The Twitter Files thread had evidence of the Biden campaign part.....which number Tweet of Taibbi's had evidence of the government blessings and DNC  stuff as it relates to the laptop? I might have missed that one. 

[Raven Fan 362]

20 minutes ago, Shooter McGavin said:

He admitted that his wife has sex with other dudes, so he probably watches and get off on it.  He's probably bisexual, and that's fine if that's what he's into.

Dude is a complete ass hole, but still doesn't deserve to be acted for his sexual orientation 

This is why libs get steamrolled.  They try to act all above the fray when deplorables will happily spit on them.

Fok the deplorable.  The idiot presents himself as some big "man" and he's getting called out on it.

I'm sure homos use hetero actions as put down in their community.  Horsesass can let us know for sure. 

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Also, where was the outrage of Rupert Murdoch buying and killing several unflattering stories of Trump leading up to 16?  I assume that's not as bad as Trump's FBI supposed collusion with Twitter.  Trump really sucks at having people around him who won't fok him at the slightest chance.  The entire government apparently is working against him and every person who used to work for him always tells the same story.  He's an unhinged, moron narcissist who GAF only about himself.  Oh but he also loves his deplorable base...

 

LMFAO

[TimHauck 1,795]

Didn’t Musk say there was supposed to be a Part 2 yesterday?

edit: delayed

 

 

 

[TimHauck 1,795]

As I’ve said I do think Musk is a good businessman (so I don’t think the lights will go out).  I’m not sure he cares nearly as much about “transparency” as he does about getting more eyes and users on twitter.  He forced Taibbi to put the story on twitter, and of course hyped it up despite there being no real bombshells (at least not yet)

 

 

 

[RLLD 3,455]

9 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Seems you’ve been going out of your way to be viewed as some kind of down the middle observer. Twitter suppressed the truth on behalf of a political party, with the aid of law enforcement and the blessings of elected officials.  Saying they contemplated doing the right thing but elected not to doesn’t make them look any better.  It’s worse. 

I am trying really hard to be reasoned in my approach.  Often when it comes to politics we have to accept the lesser of two evils, as politics is rife with evil.  In reality the less government touches or gets involved with the better things are.

So many of the things that challenge us today are directly because of government, it is a focking ruinous POS

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12 hours ago, Raven Fan said:

So you're point is that he couldn't be suspended?  Kanye just got re-suspended.

Sometimes even those protecting you can only protect so much. 

My point is you can't simultaneously have enough pull to direct Twitter behind the scenes and not enough pull to not be permabanned from the same platform. 

It's not like Trump was using Twitter to plan the January 6th protest. They hated him and jumped at any chance to ban him. They certainly weren't going to do him any favors. 

[TimHauck 1,795]

8 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

My point is you can't simultaneously have enough pull to direct Twitter behind the scenes and not enough pull to not be permabanned from the same platform. 

It's not like Trump was using Twitter to plan the January 6th protest. They hated him and jumped at any chance to ban him. They certainly weren't going to do him any favors. 

Twitter was where Trump did make comments undermining the election process though.

And it wasn’t “simultaneous.”  By then they knew he was no longer going to be President, so he didn’t have as much power as he did in 2020.. 

Nonetheless, I bet he still could have sent requests for other people’s tweets to be deleted if they violated the TOS, as the tweets linked by Taibbi did.

[RLLD 3,455]

15 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Twitter was where Trump did make comments undermining the election process though.

And it wasn’t “simultaneous.”  By then they knew he was no longer going to be President, so he didn’t have as much power as he did in 2020.. 

Nonetheless, I bet he still could have sent requests for other people’s tweets to be deleted if they violated the TOS, as the tweets linked by Taibbi did.

I think I want to be clear on this.  Your assertion then is that Twitter was in some way working with the Trump administration? I need to be sure I am reading you clearly on this.

[Raven Fan 362]

9 minutes ago, RLLD said:

I think I want to be clear on this.  Your assertion then is that Twitter was in some way working with the Trump administration? I need to be sure I am reading you clearly on this.

Was the FBI part of the Trump administration?  Did the Trump campaign contact twitter and ask for stories or posts to be removed?

And how come no one has mentioned Murdoch buying and suppressing unflattering stories about Trump?  isn't that exactly the same thing?

[TimHauck 1,795]

32 minutes ago, RLLD said:

I think I want to be clear on this.  Your assertion then is that Twitter was in some way working with the Trump administration? I need to be sure I am reading you clearly on this.

Yes.  Taibbi made this clear.

 

 

 

 

[TimHauck 1,795]

Yikes.  Twitter deleted tweet, but account still active.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Yikes.  Twitter deleted tweet, but account still active.

 

 

Tim got us!!!!

she should be banned from twitter and undergo an FBI investigation.  

what she said is 1000000x worse than anything OMB ever did, or Alex Jones

 

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1 hour ago, Raven Fan said:

Was the FBI part of the Trump administration?  Did the Trump campaign contact twitter and ask for stories or posts to be removed?

And how come no one has mentioned Murdoch buying and suppressing unflattering stories about Trump?  isn't that exactly the same thing?

I infer then that you are making this assertion, and further that you oppose such an act?

[RLLD 3,455]

46 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Yes.  Taibbi made this clear.

 

 

 

 

So was this wrong? Or was it ok?

[RLLD 3,455]

2 hours ago, RLLD said:

I am trying really hard to be reasoned in my approach.  Often when it comes to politics we have to accept the lesser of two evils, as politics is rife with evil.  In reality the less government touches or gets involved with the better things are.

So many of the things that challenge us today are directly because of government, it is a focking ruinous POS

To the individual who found this funny, There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men...

[TimHauck 1,795]

4 minutes ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Tim got us!!!!

she should be banned from twitter and undergo an FBI investigation.  

what she said is 1000000x worse than anything OMB ever did, or Alex Jones

 

Huh?  I never said you guys agreed with it. Just pointing out crazy people and the fact Elon didn’t ban them.

[TimHauck 1,795]

4 minutes ago, RLLD said:

So was this wrong? Or was it ok?

If the tweets violated twitter rules, then it was OK (like the tweets the Biden campaign requested to be removed).

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,566]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Huh?  I never said you guys agreed with it. Just pointing out crazy people and the fact Elon didn’t ban them.

my point is you probably don't post any of the leftists who say similar things who clearly call for and use twitter to organize violence

but you found a conservative to say something horrible and run here to post it