Democrats use of Twitter.

Sorry to spoil a good propaganda campaign with actual facts...but:

"Twitter in 2020 granted requests from both President Donald Trump's White House and candidate Joe Biden's campaign to remove content, according to a thread published Friday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi."

"The long Twitter thread, dubbed "The Twitter Files," was hyped up by Elon Musk, the social media platform's billionaire owner and self-styled "free speech absolutist." The thread primarily included internal communications and other details about Twitter's controversial decision to suppress a New York Post report concerning the laptop of Biden's son Hunter in October 2020.

But Taibbi also touched on other content moderation actions, writing that by 2020 it was "routine" for Twitter to receive requests to remove content from third-party actors.

"Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored," he said, adding that "celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-granted-requests-both-trump-031657595.html

https://media.zenfs.com/en/business_insider_articles_888/8d13d43b9bb2b6d52b178fa399a49012">

Twitter granted requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign to remove content in 2020, report says

Elon Musk has only condemned the Biden campaign, despite the report he hyped showing the Trump White House also requested that Twitter remove content.

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Re: Democrats use of Twitter.

Dec 12, 2022, 9:45 AM [ in reply to Re: Democrats use of Twitter. ]

Contrariwise, those platforms were part and parcel of the smear-job October Surprise the same cast of characters - Rudy, Steve Bannon, Trump, Fox News (and News Corp), plus Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and the Russian FSB played in hacking the DNC's servers and smearing Hillary all over the Internetz two weeks before the 2016 election. Those platforms got used, and they absolutely were complicit in necro'ing what were largely old issues around Hillary, and allowing that to be the narrative leading up to election day. Twitter knew full well (though after the fact, it was a new phenomena at the time in American politics) that they'd been played, and how, and that Trump wouldn't have won in 2016 without their platform massively amplifying that highly artificial narrative.

The MAGA's and Faux News are just p!ssed Twitter declined to participate in 2020. But why should they have?

Do you really think Twitter had some kind of obligation to let the same pack of bad actors - and these were some of the worst actors in American political history, which is saying a lot - pull the same sh!t in 2020? It was their platform, they legally could do what they wanted with it...just as Elon is doing what he wants with it now. Dragging Jack Dorsey into Congress to let Freedom Caucus derps ventilate for the benefit of Faux News isn't going to change that, it's just performative bullsh!t, which is all those nincompoops are capable of. It plays with the base, I guess. Yay. And Jack Dorsey and the others who got close to double actual market value for Twitter will walk right on out of Congress whistling, because they just made billions on one of the most lopsided (and most likely ill-conceived) deals in American business history, and they know they didn't break any laws, and without the presidency and 60 votes in the Senate - which the GOP is never likely to have - there's not jack that MTG or Boebert or Matt Gaetz can actually do...to Jack.

And just for sh!ts and giggles, some of those thousands of Twitter employees who either quit or got fired when Elon went corporate raider on them will probably start a new Twitter, that tastes just like the old Twitter, and leave Elon owning Myspace Redux. Elon doesn't own his user base, he's just renting their attention, and what those users wanted was what old Twitter was. Thinking he can change that is like replacing Coke Classic with old Tab (I dunno if you remember, but it was disgusting) and thinking people will just keep drinking it because it's got the Coke label on it now.

You know how I know that? Because nobody uses Gettr, Rumble, Gab, or Truth Social. Because the neo-Nazis, trolls, and psychos are allowed to run rampant there and it's dark and scary on those platforms.

So this is a non-argument, and one conservatives are never going to win. Trying to somehow force Twitter to become one of those platforms is an impossibility as long as cyberspace is infinite and users can go where they wanna, and "right to post" is a pipedream and in the real world unachievable in a practical sense as long as there are psychos, disinformers, trolls, and bad actors in this world. So there will always be terms of service.

As usual, The Atlantic has probably the most definitive take on this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/legal-right-to-post-free-speech-social-media/672406/