[thebeefytaco]

If the laptop became property of the repair shop, how would that be illicitly obtained?

[scotty79]

I don't think that owning the hardware means you own or can publish personal data contained on the hardware.

[bigbubba]

Perhaps Hunter Biden should send out some DMCA claims. Then twitter/Facebook/etc could have their cake and eat it too, censor that content without getting blame for it being censored.

But perhaps there is a fair use argument to be made?

[LegitShady]

If you abandon something you have no expectation of privacy. It's why both the FBI and private investigators can go through your garbage.

[cycrutchfield]

Protip: the laptop never existed

[ganoushoreilly]

Except theres clear evidence of the FBI's acquisition of the laptop / data.

We can question the framing of data selected from the laptop, but the laptop itself has never been in dispute.

[cycrutchfield]

Oh, I am sure that a physical laptop was produced, but it's not Biden's.

[untog]

That presumes the story about the laptop is true. And a lot of details in the story don’t quite make sense.

But still, how is Twitter even supposed to judge whether a story is trustworthy? No clue.