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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]They do no such thing. It is one of the biggest nothingburgers in recent history. Please, in specific detail, list anything that was illegal or even unethical that was revealed.
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For example, the White House Press Secretary had her account frozen for tweeting about a New York Post article about Hunters laptop in the month before the 2020 election. I would say that was an abuse of power and an unethical decision by twitter.[/quote]

Twitter made a decision that the laptop story violated its terms of service. The White House Press Secretary violated the terms of service and had her account frozen until she removed the tweet in question. That is not unethical. To the contrary, it would have been unethical to allow the Press Secretary to violate terms of service to which others were held to account.
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But why did the media decide to suppress the laptop story? Did the Biden campaign request they suppress it? Did the media/twitter  want Biden to win and suppress/manipulate the facts? Is that OK?[/quote]

Based on the internal correspondence that was published, Twitter made the decision based on its own terms of service and its belief that the Post article was based on hacked or stolen content. The correspondence does not detail how Twitter arrived at that conclusion, nor does the correspondence show any effort by the Biden campaign to block the Post story.
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And rightfully, Khanna called them out on it, called it a violation of the Bill of Rights.[/quote]

Khanna did do that and I appreciate his commitment to free speech. However, the First Amendment has nothing to do with this situation and is a red herring. A private company does not have to comply with the First Amendment. 
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No they do not...unless they follow the dictates of the Federal Government, which they did.[/quote]

The DNC and the Biden campaign are not and were not the Federal Government. The only dictates that might be said to come from the Federal Government came from the Trump White House.
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It doesn't matter in this case. Biden isn't the 'My Pillow' guy. Biden was the official DNC party candidate for President, and the DNC takes money from the people. I'm hoping the DNC and Biden campaign didn't actively work with Twitter to suppress information with the purpose of influencing an election. That would be really bad.[/quote]

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