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> So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!

I looked at the tweets mentioned by Taibbi in the Wayback Machine, and they didn't actually appear to be unflattering speech or even speech at all but rather photos. The first tweet, for example, was some explicit photos (which I assume would violate Twitter's rules whether or not they were of Hunter Biden).

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I believe all three are pornographic in nature. So while it’s still notable that the Biden team reached out manually to report them it does seem all the tweets were in violation of Twitter policy and fair game for removal.

Twitter is used by sex workers all the time for pornographic images. What specifically about them violates the rules? Is it the fact that the person did not intend on those images being released? Do they have a claim if those images were no longer their property given the terms of service of the repair shop where the laptop was abandoned?

>California legislators passed a revenge porn law making it a crime for anyone to post online photos or videos of someone's intimate body parts without consent. The revenge porn law is defined under California Penal Code 647(J)(4) and often considered a type of nonconsensual pornography.

https://www.cronisraelsandstark.com/revenge-porn-california-...

Twitter HQ is in California.

>Is it the fact that the person did not intend on those images being released? Do they have a claim if those images were no longer their property given the terms of service of the repair shop where the laptop was abandoned?

I can understand the repair shop owning the hardware and being able to wipe the data and resell it. But do those terms also give the repair shop the right to login to bank accounts via saved passwords and transfer money? Or use the SSNs to apply for loans? Where is the line drawn?

If your company HR's data including your SSN and bank account numbers were on a laptop they abandoned at a repair shop, does the repair shop get to post them on their website?

Sex workers agree to posting these pictures (at least we hope they do).

Are you arguing that it would be ok to post intimate pictures of you or someone in your family, or anybody, basically, without them explicitly agreeing to?

Are you seriously saying that a repair shop could take your personal data and publish it online as they wished because they just got access to your laptop (however they got it)?

In what world does a laptop repair shop has terms of services that would explicitly allow that?

Twitter's policy against "revenge porn" was likely the controlling factor. Also, in general, posting private photos of someone, without their consent, is disallowed on most/all platforms.

The images need to be labeled as adult, but for the bigger issue I think it’s easier to think of it as revenge porn.

Basically revenge porn. Distributed by known bot accounts.

Completely reasonable to have them removed.

My understanding was that those were examples and that he was implying that there were vastly more that had been requested and removed by both parties before those tweets. Did I misinterpret his tweet?

If these removals were fine but Taibbi has other examples that are actually bad… why didn’t he just post those instead? It’s a huge stretch to say that removing revenge porn is somehow evidence of corruption. If Taibbi had real dirt he should’ve just led with it.

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