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Comment by askl56 | Hacker News Reader

And they regularly allow material obtained illegally or without a clear source of origin, including Trump's tax returns. Which twitter included in trending for 4 days.

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Prior to the tax return story, a number of stories were published inconsistent with both the NYT story and often with each other. Twitter seemed to have no issue with the proliferation of these stories. Add to that, the unchecked spread of misinformation surrounding much of the various events that sparked protests around the country this summer.

The NY Post story included personally identifiable information like addresses, e-mail addresses, SSN numbers, etc. The NYTimes story did not contain any such PII. Twitter did not block discussion of the NY Post story, and did not block stories about the contents of the emails that did not contain PII.

The number of people who have completely bought the right-wing talking points around this story hook, line, and sinker - without bothering to exercise an ounce of critical thought or independently seek out any of the facts - is absolutely astonishing.

Wait, now it’s PII that caused the blackout?? The excuses are changing by the watch. We can all read the story. I recommend you check your allegations against the source material. The email addresses are material to the story, and I’m not seeing “PII” in it.

This story? [1]

I didn't notice any SSNs in the article, is there a different article or am I just oblivious? Not redacting the email addresses is rude, but FWIW some of them appear to be defunct now. I only noticed one phone number, and it's not unlisted so its owner was public knowledge before it was published

[1]: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...

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