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What do you think the Biden administration would do if they were ignored? Arrest the CEO? Revoke Twitter's corporate charter? Please.

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Collusion doesn't require coercion. In fact that's what the tweet thread refers to at the beginning. It is most likely out of political partisanship.

Its partisan to remove dick-pics[1]? You really all have lost the plot if you align yourself to the right over this nothing burger of a story.

[1] The tweets referenced by the biden team were Hunter Biden dick pics, you can check yourself in the Wayback Machine

Its partisan to censor the laptop story.

This wasn't even the Biden Admin as it was 2020 so it was just the campaign team.

Yeah it seems like Twitters political ideology was more operative.

The US government has a history of going after people that say no to them or that they don't like, yes. Qwest is a great example

Or, like, Twitter? I mean it's interesting to see the white hot outrage and political concern burning everywhere over 'rich billionaire owns social media platform.'

I mean Zuck must be the devil himself by now then... Or is it Musk's ideological views creating such consternation? In which case, also interesting to see the federal interest.

Zuck is pretty widely despised…

Not by the government...

What federal interest?

another great example, yes

Abraham Lincoln sent federal agents to shut down two newspapers with antiwar sentiment in NYC. Those papers never came back.

Good riddance.

Quite interesting, considering they had printed what we might now call as "fake news".

You’ve seen the Senate anti-trust investigation of tech?

Pretty sure “playing ball” helps build goodwill with the people who decide whether to break your company up or not.

The Taibbi tweets clearly indicate that "connections" buy influence within Twitter. So clearly Twitter sees some benefit to "helping" those in power.

Edit: It's specifically called out in Taibbi's tweets. "NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point,""

I tried to follow, but this idea makes a record for logical leaps. For those of us not as adept at parsing prognostication via tea leaves, can you connect a senate investigation to moderation actions at Twitter?

They would probably call for more "common-sense" regulation of Big Tech

There was no Biden administration at the time! In fact, there was not conversation with "the government." Twitter were exercising their freedom of speech (or non speech!)

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