Comment by koolba | Hacker News Reader

Comment by koolba | Hacker News Reader

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There's countless examples. A big one from the 2020 election was banning any organization that tweeted about (at the time candidate) Biden's son Hunter's infamous laptop: https://nypost.com/2022/03/18/how-big-tech-media-and-dems-ki...

Clearly that was bias to suppress negative information about potential corrupt dealings of Joe Biden's extended family and likely him as well.

A more recent cultural example would be banning the satirical website Bablyon Bee for a joke article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/03/21/the-babyl...

Because that contrasts with the leaderships own personal beliefs, jokes like that are a bannable offense. But, an equally crass joke about Lindsey Graham being a homosexual because of his accent by Jon Stewart would be perfectly fine: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/243250-why-...

I'm appalled that more people aren't pissed the fuck off about the laptop story. It's literal election tampering, but no one gives a shit because it's their side.

We really are cheerfully walking ourselves straight into 1984.

So this affected you personally? You were banned from twitter?

Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

>So this affected you personally?

I hate this line of reasoning, and I also hate that it's so prevelantly used in our legal system (we have a legal system, not a justice system FWIW). This same flawed line of thought has prevented lawsuits against the government for their illegal spying. Since "no one can prove they were harmed", and "proving you were harmed is against the law" we're stuck.

Consider the following: A pending meteor impact harms absolutely no one until right before it impacts and harms everyone.

I mean, yeah I can see that. That's an analogy you can make.

How did the administration force a private company to make a choice here? I'm not following that part.

How did our corrupt, evil government force XYZ to happen?

I’m sorry but your entire logical structure comes off as absurd to me.

We have a fundamentally evil and absurd government, and you’re asking me how anyone was “forced” to do anything? Really?

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