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by anecdotal1 1126 days ago
I still haven't seen evidence the _government_ demanded censorship. Maybe it exists, but nobody seems to cite any sources for it.

What I have seen is government-adjacent entities that people confuse for the government like the Biden campaign request that Twitter apply their own Terms of Service policies to remove things that are not supposed to be allowed (like the nudes of Hunter, which is technically revenge porn)
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Clubber 1126 days ago
It's right in the twitter files reporting. You probably relied on news organizations to inform you on it rather than actually read the twitter files themselves. With the state of news today, that's probably not a great idea. The screen shots are part of it.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128?ref_s...

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anecdotal1 1126 days ago
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:53 PM @fbi.gov> wrote: Hello Twitter contacts, FBI San Francisco is notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy.

Looks to me like ToS violation tips, not YOU MUST CENSOR

edit: if you think the FBI wasting their resources helping Twitter identify terms of service violations is "government censorship" we will never see eye to eye on this issue. It was unusual, but definitely not a constitutional crisis.

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Clubber 1126 days ago
>if you think the FBI wasting their resources helping Twitter identify terms of service violations is "government censorship" we will never see eye to eye on this issue. It was unusual, but definitely not a constitutional crisis.

No I suppose not. Ask yourself, why would the FBI help Twitter with their terms of service for probably a few years? Why would Twitter charge them for the privilege? Why would they do it right during the run up to an election? They don't do things just because. Why wouldn't it be a more appropriate agency like the FEC or the FCC? Would you feel comfortable if they did similar to NYT, WaPo or Fox articles? Questions everyone should think about as a voting citizen. Our government is only corrupt as we allow it to be; we've allowed a lot in the last 23 years.

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anecdotal1 1125 days ago
It doesn't matter why. All that matters is that everything they did was perfectly legal behavior.

Maybe alarming, maybe suspicious, but it's legal and it wasn't government censorship. Trying to frame it so only weakens your position when the facts and the laws are clearly laid out.

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