oski003 said:
Unit2Sucks said:
oski003 said:
Unit2Sucks said:
oski003 said:
Unit2Sucks said:
Just so we're clear, are you claiming that the sorts of "opinions" flagged as misinformation are "conservative" or Republican in nature?
I have no idea why stolen/misappropriated Hunter Biden dick pics are conservative. Maybe I missed the change in the GOP platform where that became a policy.
Before you ask us whether we are okay with what you consider to be government censorship of "conservative" views, I would love to hear what "conservative" views you believe were actually censored. So far all I've heard of are batsh(t crazy misinformation which are in no way political but seem to be deeply held beliefs by crackpots who happen to be GOP voters in this era because you and millions of other garden variety GOPers let Trump and his base take over the conservative movement.
Misinformation, such as the existence of Hunter's laptop itself tagged/labeled as misinformation and Russian propaganda and thus hidden and cast aside. I don't recall anyone protesting removal of dick picks. I am not sure why you went there, except to purposely confuse the issue.
What conservative policy is represented by the reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop? Assuming that the laptop is genuine, how did it come to be publicly disclosed? Did Hunter give journalists permission to disclose his personal information publicly? I'm just trying to understand how it came to be that the misappropriation of Hunter's dick pics came to be such an important conservative position.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/amp/
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
"Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It's realty [sic] an honor and pleasure," the email reads.
An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma's No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for "advice on how you could use your influence" on the company's behalf.
I enjoy how you included the bolded misinformation in the above quote. Is pretending like Biden's enactment of a bipartisan policy to terminate a corrupt prosecutor a core conservative position now?
Separately, if the NY Post didn't receive the email through Russian interference, can you remind us all how the NY Post came to legally possess what it purports to be Hunter Biden's emails?
Read the article. Newspapers routinely publish information that may have been obtained illegally. In this case, people's voices were actually suppressed. People posted things. Those true things were labeled misleading and hidden. That blows.
What true things? The things the NY post obtained from a blind computer repair person in Delaware who says Hunter Biden gave him 3 damaged laptops and then never came back for them? The same guy who essentially doxxed Hunter and perpetrated a massive invasion of privacy under very questionable circumstances? Do you really think it's impossible to rule out foul play?
According to the repair person
himself, there is lots of disinformation included in the materials.
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What Mac Isaac said next, though, is what was most noteworthy. When he did his "deep dive," he said, he "saw a lot of photos" but "did not see a lot of photos that are being reported to [have been] seen."
"I do know that there have been multiple attempts over the past year-and-a-half to insert questionable material into the laptop as in, not physically, but passing off this misinformation or disinformation as coming from the laptop," he said. "And that is a major concern of mine because I have fought tooth and nail to protect the integrity of this drive and to jeopardize that is going to mean that everything that I sacrificed will be for nothing."
In other words, Mac Isaac says that he has seen claims about what the laptop contains that don't actually reflect what he saw on the laptop at the outset. Or, presumably, sees now, as one of the few people that might still have an unlittered copy of its contents.
To what is he referring? It's hard to say. It may include one of the more popular claims that has circulated on the right, alleging that the machine included evidence of criminal sexual activity by Hunter Biden. (This was alleged on-air by Tucker Carlson last year, without proof.) Or it may involve other claims entirely.
Here's where The Washington Post's discovery that folders were added becomes more important. We have evidence that the portable hard drive had something added to it both before and after the New York Post's original story and here's Mac Isaac agreeing that some of what he's seen presented as coming from the laptop was never on there. This is why provenance matters in journalistic investigations. Just because Rudy Giuliani says that material came from a hard drive is not reason to assume it did particularly when he's on-record as disparaging the idea that the material should be vetted before being reported on.
Twitter and other social media companies are permitted to moderate content. The Hunter Biden content was reported to have misinformation - even from the person who originally was responsible for doxxing Hunter.
The real question is why is the misappropriation of Hunter Biden's private documents, including dick pics, of such vital political importance to the GOP? The conservative movement is so weird nowadays that it appears to be impossible for anyone to separate your purported "political" viewpoints from absolutely batsh(t crazy conspiracy theories and personal hit pieces. It's not just Biden's dick pics that you people are obsessed with and pretending has become political censorship. Anti-vax misinformation used to be the purview of a few nutjobs (more liberal than conservative) but now it's apparently a core part of the conservative movement in this country.
What is really happening is that the conservative movement has become untethered from any reasonable policy movement in practice and so any sort of moderation of crazy bullsh(t conspiracy theories has automatically become the censorship of "conservative" views because you nutjobs have taken ownership of everything crazy.
If I'm wrong, please share one conservative political position which you all believe was unfairly "censored" by Twitter or others. If the best you have is Hunter's junk, I rest my case. You have to be able to do better than that if you are going to pretend this is politics.
