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Orangeslice13 said:
So exactly what I said.
got it.
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Huh? You said "suppressed" and that's exactly what I'm saying hasn't been demonstrated.

Some of you are just here to play games and dgas about truth.

This needs to be a named rule. Maybe we can call it huff's law, but if it's so bad, then why can't we stick to the facts?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Huh? You said "suppressed" and that's exactly what I'm saying hasn't been demonstrated.

Some of you are just here to play games and dgas about truth.

This needs to be a named rule. Maybe we can call it huff's law, but if it's so bad, then why can't we stick to the facts?
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My god.
 
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n_huffhines said:
"Requests" is correct. Pay for "censorship" or "suppression" has not been demonstrated.
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From 'Reason's E. N. Brown:
"If there are real villains here, it's FBI and DHS agents excessively vigilant about potential foreign propaganda in 2020 and overzealous about countering election-related misinformation. But given everything that happened on this front in 2016—the (relatively pathetic) attempts at a Russian influence campaign and the subsequent years of hysteria about it—it's not terribly surprising that authorities were on high alert. And warning social media companies to be on high alert, too, is actually pretty far down on the list of damning things these agencies do.

There's been ample insinuation that these agencies were politically motivated. But all of this was happening at a time when President Donald Trump was in power and his people were running DHS and the FBI. Rather than agencies intent on swaying the 2020 election for Biden, their actions seem like run-of-the-mill paranoia and attempts at control.

This brings us back to the money the FBI gave Twitter for "time spent processing requests." In the last installment of the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi reported on some of those requests, many of which were related to potential election misinformation. Twitter looked into the flagged tweets and accounts, sometimes complying with the FBI and sometimes not."
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Again, FBI and DHS weren't being "especially vigilant" when they painted the Biden laptop story as a Russian hack/leak operation; FBI had the laptop for nearly a year prior. "But given everything that happened in 2016" such as the same FBI, DOJ concocting a Russia collusion hoax despite being told in 2016 by CIA that it was a diversion hoax by Clinton/DNC to smear Trump, and being told in 2016 - twice - that Carter Page was a source, not a Russian agent/operative or tool. They hid Danchenko to avoid congressional investigation of him and to preserve the dossier basis for FISA warrants, a basis they knew was false before the election and certainly no later than Jan '17, months before Mueller's appointment.

"But all of this was happening at a time when President Donald Trump was in power and his people were running DHS and the FBI" ....so, we're to conclude that Trump asked "his people" to try and illegally usurp his presidency and remove him from power, with a Democrat generated hoax? Apparently, 'Reason's Nolan thinks only Republicans dedicated to rule of law populated government because Trump was elected.

The DOJ/FBI purposely put its finger on the scale to prevent Trump's re-election. We know this because they knew the laptop was genuine beginning in Dec. 2019 when they seized it. They run media and tech as a propaganda operation just as they did in 2016 by leaking information and then using those news reports as 3rd party confirmation there was fire in that circular generated Russian smoke. Forget the Russians; the DOJ/FBI and intel are the malign force of election interference:
Latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI bullied executives over not reporting ‘state propaganda’ enough
On Friday, Taibbi said the FBI and Twitter’s relationship had a “master-canine quality” and that the two parties were in “constant and pervasive” contact. The FBI treated the social media giant like a “subsidiary,” he added, and constantly flagged numerous Twitter accounts for purportedly harmful “misinformation” beginning in January 2020.

We have to conclude 'Reason' is either this stupid or this devious. You want to remain dumb, get used to being called a dummy.
 
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Report: DOJ Obtained Email, Phone Data of Kash Patel in 2017
The Department of Justice (DOJ) used a subpoena to obtain the personal cell phone and email data of Kash Patel, who was then a lead investigator at the House Intelligence Committee, in 2017, according to Just The News.

The subpoenas, obtained by Just the News, show the DOJ demanded that Google turn over personal email and phone data from the two senior staffers on Nov. 20, 2017 and that responsive materials were to be returned to DOJ by Dec. 5, 2017.
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The subpoenas were delivered during a critical time frame in the committee’s effort to expose the Donald Trump-Russia collusion investigation as having been driven by an uncorroborated political opposition dossier funded by Hillary Clinton. Nunes’ committee was locked at the time in a bitter struggle to force the FBI and DOJ to turn over records to the committee.

The DOJ subpoenas came to light in the last few days when the former committee staffers were informed by Google that their records had been taken, consistent with the Big Tech company’s policy of alerting customers five years after law enforcement takes such actions.

Nothing to see here, eh @n_huffhines ?
 
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Twitter Files Part 8: Platform ‘directly assisted’ U.S. military’s influence operations
Investigative journalist Lee Fang released the eighth edition of the "Twitter Files" on Tuesday, putting a spotlight on how the social media juggernaut "quietly aided the Pentagon’s covert online PsyOp campaign."

"Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations," Fang wrote to kick off the lengthy thread.

It is impossible that the state-run propaganda networks are Twitter, FB, Google, CNN, and such. Or that the malign state is our own government bureaucracy, House Democrats, and the current Presidential administration.

Or that we, dear citizens, are the psyop target.

Absolutely, positively nothing to see here, either...
 
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DC_Vol said:
3.5M dollars?? There seem to be only a few possible scenarios:

1- the FBI made a lot of “requests”
2- Twitter spent a lot of hours developing special projects to meet the requirements of the FBI’s “requests”
3- this was a big profit center for Twitter
4- this was a gift to Twitter to ensure the compliance continued
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This guy says it's paltry but IDK what to believe. IDK what kind of expenses AT&T and these data/comms companies have to spend to help LEO's. FWIW, it's less than 0.1% of Twitter revenue in 2019

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NCFisher said:
Twitter Files Part 8: Platform ‘directly assisted’ U.S. military’s influence operations
Investigative journalist Lee Fang released the eighth edition of the "Twitter Files" on Tuesday, putting a spotlight on how the social media juggernaut "quietly aided the Pentagon’s covert online PsyOp campaign."

"Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations," Fang wrote to kick off the lengthy thread.

It is impossible that the state-run propaganda networks are Twitter, FB, Google, CNN, and such. Or that the malign state is our own government bureaucracy, House Democrats, and the current Presidential administration.

Or that we, dear citizens, are the psyop target.

Absolutely, positively nothing to see here, either...
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Just a business operating in the free market there, chief!
 
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n_huffhines said:
This guy says it's paltry but IDK what to believe. IDK what kind of expenses AT&T and these data/comms companies have to spend to help LEO's. FWIW, it's less than 0.1% of Twitter revenue in 2019

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Yeah, tiny money to Twitter. I think DOJ/FBI damage controlling and preventing Trump another four years to come after them, found kindred, leftist populated souls in the tech and new media companies. And when reluctant, they bullied them.
DC_Vol said:
3.5M dollars?? There seem to be only a few possible scenarios:

1- the FBI made a lot of “requests”
2- Twitter spent a lot of hours developing special projects to meet the requirements of the FBI’s “requests”
3- this was a big profit center for Twitter
4- this was a gift to Twitter to ensure the compliance continued
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That's pretty tiny money for Twitter. If this report is half-true, the U.S. government spear-headed by FBI was coercing tech (and probably other media) to get in line with the state's (our own DOJ/FBI) propaganda program: Latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI bullied executives over not reporting ‘state propaganda’ enough
 
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n_huffhines said:
This guy says it's paltry but IDK what to believe. IDK what kind of expenses AT&T and these data/comms companies have to spend to help LEO's. FWIW, it's less than 0.1% of Twitter revenue in 2019

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I’m just doing the math of 3.5M divided by 250k per year divided by 1.3 years. That’s 10 FT employees servicing the FBI’s “requests”.

I suspect it was a profit center and they are billing the feds like every other contractor.
 
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We've already established from previous leaks that the FBI "requested" the censoring of certain accounts and topics. Now we hear that they paid millions to process these requests. But we have to pretend like there still isn't a direct line to connect the payment by a government entity for the purpose of censoring?
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
The United States Government, and it's citizens, should not be doing ANY sort of business with a known American traitor. PERIOD. Everything this man has touched is suspect. ALL OF IT. Why does PUTIN still have a twitter? View attachment 525315
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We have it on good authority that any Russian who comes into contact with a conservative, is Putin's 'Inner Chamber Head Something'.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
We've already established from previous leaks that the FBI "requested" the censoring of certain accounts and topics. Now we hear that they paid millions to process these requests. But we have to pretend like there still isn't a direct line to connect the payment by a government entity for the purpose of censoring?
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It's Huff's New Law for VN Governance; the Truth Law.
Like Megan's Law, the thing it's named for has to be killed.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
We've already established from previous leaks that the FBI "requested" the censoring of certain accounts and topics. Now we hear that they paid millions to process these requests. But we have to pretend like there still isn't a direct line to connect the payment by a government entity for the purpose of censoring?
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Just pretend like we have proof that the FBI paid for censorship.

Again, if what happened was so bad, why can't we stick to the facts? Why can't we just say, "this is a problematic relationship with conflicts of interest and I think pay for suppression is plausible." Instead of "the FBI was paying for suppression of speech based on these revelations that aren't actually proof of pay for suppression."

What we do know is bad enough and jumping to conclusions and misleading weakens the position.
 
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