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Elon Musk claims the FBI paid Twitter to 'censor info from the public.'

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12 pointsisaacfrond15 comments

What's up with all these new pro-Musk accounts pushing conspiracies on HN? It is almost like the real conspiracy is who is bot-farming for Musk?

Indeed, and it would be great if it was just new accounts but there are also accounts that have been around for years that suddenly spout nothing but conspiracy nonsense while claiming the rest of us lack critical thinking skills and/or are shills for the FBI or have been brainwashed. It's getting really annoying.

I've seen one community be destroyed like this (an alternative energy community focused on solar and wind power was overrun by 'over unity' idiots and allowed to run amok because they kept buying expensive magnets which the forum owners were selling). And I really would like HN to stay sane.

TFA> Musk and right-wing media continue to take relatively mundane procedures, such as a company receiving reimbursement for processing legal requests, and put them in the worst possible light, portraying them as nefarious.

Edit: 3.4M/44B ~= 0.00008, or 0.008%; roughly 0.

If the FBI was asking Musk’s Twitter to respond to legal requests without financially covering the administrative overhead costs, he’d be screeching about having to ‘finance the deep state bureaucracy’ or something similar.

Instead, the FBI covering the overhead costs of Twitter responding to their inquiries is “paying for censorship”.

Either way, Musk gets to rile up people who believe his narrative.

And it gets lapped up and amplified all over the web.

Anyone reading the files and ignoring both Musk and the corporate-owned media would arrive at a similar conclusion.

You need to do some mental gymnastics to assume this stuff is OK.

In 2014 we learned that the NSA paid RSA $10 million to put a backdoor into their encryption products. This stuff is not new.

One wonders if the FBI has a right to exist after something like this, or instead should be disbanded and absorbed into other agencies.

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