[mcrad]

They just removed 7 tweets or do you mean removed the story about a presidential candidate's ties to shady business deals in China and Ukraine, while in office as VP? What was and is "all so stupid" is this perception that it's all about Hunter, you know, your everyday broken down drug addict.

[jjeaff]

You mean the supposed influence peddling referenced in emails that were dated in 2017? After Joe Biden was no longer in office?

[candybar]

There's no evidence that Twitter removing stories about Hunter Biden (as opposed to the dick pics) was something that was either requested by the Biden campaign or even preferred. If anything, the only Democratic politician that shows up in his story told Twitter that he doesn't like the way Twitter decided to handle the story. It seems clear that the general political pressure was in the opposite direction as is claimed - Twitter had internally decided that these are against their own policy, but legislators on both sides (though for different reasons) thought Twitter should not done this.

[ModernMech]

> removed the story about a presidential candidate's ties to shady business deals in China and Ukraine, while in office as VP

It’s been years since the “Hunter Biden laptop” non story, and the vague unsubstantiated accusations are still flying. Zero work seems to have been done since then to substantiate any of the claims, which says a lot about how much those making them care that what they’re saying is true or accurate. The vague claims and conspiracy theories do the job just as well it seems.

You’re right after all; the only reason anyone cares about the Hunter Biden laptop is because they think it will take down a different Biden.

The problem is it actually doesn’t. Despite your innuendo, the shadiest thing that can be pointed out is vague notions of influence peddling, which has been effectively normalized after the last administration’s blatant and gratuitous influence peddling. It’s hard to get people fired up about something you’ve been claiming is totally cool and legal for the past 6 years. So no surprise that no one cares to hear about influence peddling and shady deals from the team that brought us Jared Kushner’s $2billion Saudi fund and Trump’s first impeachment.

The laptop story is a dud. Republicans will spend years investigating it and find nothing. Maybe they’ll find something like an affair or a violation of IT policy and try to make it into a huge scandal, but after living through Whitewater and Benghazi, we all know the drill. They most recently tried it with Durham and that failed miserably. It’s a long tradition in Republican politics.

The faster you get over and move past the laptop, the better (for you that is… the longer Republicans cry about this non issue, the better it is for Democrats politically, because only the most rabid partisan Republicans care about this at all).

[mcrad]

Funny how popular this story is despite your "non story" assertion.

You can argue it is minor in comparison to, say, impeachment proceedings re: Burisma, but did Twitter do the right thing in suppressing the laptop story? Probably not. I don't think most people want private citizens like Gadde tampering with elections in the future.

[ModernMech]

You're mistaking the noise around the story for there being a story in the first place. It's all sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[mcrad]

Maybe I'm just not well trained as you in the art of separating conspiracy theory from conspiracy(?)