[insane_dreamer]

Is that your example? It's not a very good one.

If you read the article you linked to, you find that 1) Twitter blocked tweets about the WP story, not banned users, and 2) they reversed that decision and unblocked the tweets 24 hours later as they realized their mistake.

[quantadev]

It took the corporate media (CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, etc) a full 3.5 years to admit the laptop was real. It wasn't just some little thing like you're trying to portray it as. It made the difference in the 2020 election.

[timeon]

People do not care about that laptop. They even voted for Felon to be president. Why is it such strong topic for you?

[quantadev]

People finally figured out which party's policies are destroying the country. That's what the election was about.

[nailer]

Yes, people would care that the presidents adult son is pointing a gun at a prostitutes head on video.

Your attempt to minimise this as “people don’t care about a laptop” is either incredibly ignorant of this matter or deliberately misleading framing of the question.

[quantadev]

The people saying the laptop doesn't matter are the same ones who believed the MSM story that it was Russian disinfo for 3.5 years.

They won't allow themselves to think it's important because that's an open admission (to themselves and others) of how thoroughly brainwashed they've become by trusting the MSM left-wing perspectives on every issue.

[kiitos]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd...

[nailer]

> contained the Ohio US senator’s social security number

Great. I’m not sure why you think that’s relevant to this subject but I’m glad to know this happened, just as I am sure you would be if this had happened to you.

[quantadev]

There's no comparison at all there to the laptop. The scandal about the Hunter Laptop was the fact that every MSM network plus the FBI, CIA, and deep state, and all Democrat bureaucrats all colluded to hide the truth, about it, even called for censorship of Americans over it, cancelling even high profile people by the thousands, and ended up swinging an election. There were even democrat politicians who urged not just social media, but phone companies to stop people from even texting at all about the Hunter laptop.

[intended]

I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though.

It was definitely real, it was mostly seen as a politicized fight.

[wyager]

> I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though.

I heard nominally credible commentators claim the laptop story was a "russian disinformation" campaign at least 50 different times.

[quantadev]

Big Tech, Mainstream Media, FBI, the Deep State, and every Democrat politician claimed that laptop was fake for 3.5 years. Sure, lots of them knew it was a lie, but the majority of the actual public was completely hoodwinked, because they hadn't yet realized there was this big left-wing cabal of power conspiring to lie as much as it takes to push the left-wing narratives.

[intended]

>fake for 3.5 years

Didnt people dismiss it initially, then change tune once it was confirmed? All the liberal sides knew it existed, they were mostly focused on the fact that the prosecution was being incredibly focused, which was out of the norm for how cases like that are typically punished.

[quantadev]

Nobody ever cared that Biden's son was a crackhead. That wasn't the scandal. The scandal was the censorship and gas-lighting that was done against conservatives by all powerful democrats (FBI, MSM, Gov't, Big Tech, Universities). The gas-lighting has gone on for over a decade ranging from pee tapes, horse-meds, bleach drinking, border is secure, Biden sharp as a tack, Kamala in favor of Border walls, and 100s of other lies for a decade.