[adventured]

It's not good intentions. The tech giants are attempting to throw an election and they don't care who knows at this point. For the 2012 election Facebook execs bragged about illegally assisting the Obama campaign by giving them practically the entire FB social graph, for free. That violates federal campaign finance laws. Nothing was done about it and you'll never get anyone on HN to go near talking about that fraud, which was entirely out in the open.

The media ran every possible baseless story they could about Trump the past four years, often with zero supporting evidence to the story in question. Every time they turned out to be fake stories, the media conveniently ignored it, refused to run retractions and moved on to the next fraudulent story. Twitter allowed max distribution in every single instance. Now a story blows up about Biden, and they go in to hyper overdrive to stop it, colluding with Facebook. You've got people inside of these companies directly working for the DNC and using company resources to violate federal campaign finance laws.

There is a growing list of people in big tech that need to go to prison for election interference.

[Fauntleroy]

How is it you're able to see this collusion with only one side, and not the other? I'm genuinely curious.

[amanaplanacanal]

If there were illegalities, you would think the Trump justice department would have gone after them. Do you have theories as to why that didn’t happen?

[AlexandrB]

It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to pretend that one side of the political spectrum is being oppressed even as they control 2/3 branches of government.

[giardini]

Obviously you've never worked in a bureaucracy.

[zucked]

You gonna cite some of these outlandish claims? Particularly interested in:

> The media ran every possible baseless story they could about Trump the past four years, often with zero supporting evidence to the story in question. Every time they turned out to be fake stories, the media conveniently ignored it, refused to run retractions and moved on to the next fraudulent story.

>You've got people inside of these companies directly working for the DNC and using company resources to violate federal campaign finance laws.

[sakopov]

Here you go. [1]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...

[zaroth]

I mean the first one is well established fact. No one could argue in good faith that the quality of report first, fact check later stories on Trump is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. But it’s all just flame-bait I guess.

As for the second point, the people making these decisions at Facebook and Twitter factually did or do currently work for the DNC; for the DNC, on the Biden transition team, or worked for Harris.

[octoberfranklin]

> Facebook execs bragged about illegally assisting the campaign

I'm sure Chinese tech companies would brag about illegally assisting the CPC. And be happy to have the chance to do so.

BigTech is preparing us for a Chinese-styled political system. They've decided it's inevitable and "if you can't beat 'em, be the first to join 'em".

This has nothing to do with liberal vs conservative. There will be one party left standing and right now it looks like it will be the blue one not the red one, that's all it is.