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it’s almost as if the media distorted your view on who these people are, perhaps (dare I say) under represented them.

Even if my comment was pure snark.... you know roughly half of the US is using Android, right?

Trump Social is missing a good chunk of the US population! THAT'S underrepresentation.

Fix it Devin Nunes! You left Congress for this!

:p
 
Code transparency exists everywhere for those who can interpret it. It’s useful for both those who can interpret it, and end users.

That is, if end users seek a transparent social network they can trust, which I think many want and will seek out. (See top free app in App Store)

Plus it seems like a marketable value proposition
Most of the "trust" issues people have with Twitter are likely caused by human decisions, not by computer code.
 
Well did anyone screenshot that tweet and share it again? Did anyone else think to share a link to the NY Post story on their website?

Like I said... I don't know about the one-and-only mystical NY Post tweet that got erased. Sorry.

But since the story was big enough... people obviously heard about it.

I certainly did.

There was plenty of discussion about "Hunter Biden's laptop" before the election. Remember? I do.

The problem is... I don't think anyone really cared.

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Oh, I did and plenty of other people did, too– but banning the original post suppressed its reach and perceived legitimacy. And then Twitter locked the NY Post out of its account for two weeks for refusing to take it down– during an election cycle. Pretty disturbing stuff.

Your argument here which is basically "yes, maybe it was censored but I don't know about it so it doesn't matter and people were talking about it anyway" doesn't really address the core issue, which is that Twitter censored it.

Here are a couple of articles in case you're interested in knowing what happened and the general bias Twitter has had for certain politicians:

https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-total-mistake/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...red-646-times-two-years-new-report-finds.html

As for whether anyone cared, we'll never know, because it probably never reached the independent voters who mattered.

:)
 
Oh, I did and plenty of other people did, too– but banning the original post suppressed its reach and perceived legitimacy. And then Twitter locked the NY Post out of its account for two weeks for refusing to take it down– during an election cycle. Pretty disturbing stuff.

Your argument here which is basically "yes, maybe it was censored but I don't know about it so it doesn't matter and people were talking about it anyway" doesn't really address the core issue, which is that Twitter censored it.

Here are a couple of articles in case you're interested in knowing what happened and the general bias Twitter has had for certain politicians:

https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-total-mistake/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...red-646-times-two-years-new-report-finds.html

As for whether anyone cared, we'll never know, because it probably never reached the independent voters who mattered.

:)

Noted.

Let's hope Elon doesn't censor anything. He's not the type of guy that would EVER do that...

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Twitter didn’t owe the Post free speech. That’s the main point.

Don’t like it? Buy something like Twitter and feel free to allow anything you want.
Ahh, but as another poster mentioned, that's exactly what just happened. Someone who (presumably) believes in allowing more of what I want just purchased Twitter.

I hope Musk can find a clever way to improve it.
 
Just did and y'all are frothing at the mouth about it lmao.
Literally crying about it! They can’t stand it. 100+ posts on here trying so hard to say “nooo this is wrong”. Entertaining!

The U.S. Constitution doesn't speak to private company regulation of speech in any way.

But a social media company that wants to model itself in a way that mirrors the US Constitution is certainly doing a noble thing IMHO.

I don't see any loss to the public from this as long as Musk doesn't abuse his power.
 
As for whether anyone cared, we'll never know, because it probably never reached the independent voters who mattered.

So wait... are you admitting that the "Hunter Biden story" was simply a political bomb that was supposed to affect the election?

Was there anything actually there?

Look... the NY Post story was written 18 months ago. And last I checked nothing has happened to Hunter Biden. So there's that.

Yet here we are... still talking about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden!

I remember when the word of the day was "Caravans"

Ah simpler times.

:p
 
You mean lying?
Dude, it's such a cluster****.

Clinton made it legal for the media to lie to us and Obama made it legal for propoaganda to be published by the media.

not to mention things like the CIA's #Mockingbird which paid journalists to publish propaganda and scrap real stories.




 
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Dude, it's such a cluster****.

Clinton made it legal for the media to lie to us and Obama made it legal for propoaganda to be published by the media.

not to mention things like the CIA's #Mockingbird which paid journalists to publish propaganda and scrap real stories.




I have heard about this, but I will have to independently verify these myself with my own research.

But off first glance, it doesn’t surprise me at all. WaPo is a known cia mouthpiece
 
So wait... are you admitting that the "Hunter Biden story" was simply a political bomb that was supposed to affect the election?

Was there anything actually there?

Look... the NY Post story was written 18 months ago. And last I checked nothing has happened to Hunter Biden. So there's that.

Yet here we are... still talking about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden!

I remember when the word of the day was "Caravans"

Ah simpler times.

:p
> So wait... are you admitting that the "Hunter Biden story" was simply a political bomb that was supposed to affect the election?

That's the entire point of an October Surprise, glad you're keeping up.

> Hunter Biden!

I mean, yeah; he sexually abused his niece on video, he did hardcore drugs on video, he clearly is peddling influence to the top position of our ****ing government to China among various other nations; he is proof of the corruption in our country, and everyone who cares at all about our country realizes that he and his family are a risk to the stability of our country.
 
I have heard about this, but I will have to independently verify these myself with my own research.

But off first glance, it doesn’t surprise me at all. WaPo is a known cia mouthpiece
Feel free to verify it yourself, I'm just trying to help with self education :)

as for the CIA/Bezos/Amazon connection, I find it highly suspicious the CIA's deal with AWS for billions of dollars.

 
Oh, and while we're at it, another suspicious thing.

Facebook was incorporated the day the CIA shut down a social media company, and facebook was funded by the CIA's venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel

and Facebook was incorporated the same day the DARPA's LifeLog program was shut down...


 
> So wait... are you admitting that the "Hunter Biden story" was simply a political bomb that was supposed to affect the election?

That's the entire point of an October Surprise, glad you're keeping up.

> Hunter Biden!

I mean, yeah; he sexually abused his niece on video, he did hardcore drugs on video, he clearly is peddling influence to the top position of our ****ing government to China among various other nations; he is proof of the corruption in our country, and everyone who cares at all about our country realizes that he and his family are a risk to the stability of our country.

Ah yes... the October Surprise!

I remember in October 2016 when we got the "Access Hollywood Tape" about Trump. Grab 'em by the P-word.

And Trump still got elected.

Too bad Twitter ruined the October 2020 surprise. Right? We're blaming Twitter censorship as the reason "Hunter Biden's Laptop" didn't get any traction according to some people here.

Maybe "Hunter Biden's Laptop" will be on Truth Social in October 2024.

I love surprises!

❤️
 
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Ah yes... the October Surprise!

I remember in October 2016 when we got the "Access Hollywood Tape" about Trump. Grab 'em by the P-word.

And Trump still got elected.

Too bad Twitter ruined the October 2020 surprise. Right? We're blaming Twitter censorship as the reason "Hunter Biden's Laptop" didn't get any traction according to some people here.

Maybe "Hunter Biden's Laptop" will be on Truth Social in October 2024.

I love surprises!

❤️
You mean the proven CIA disinformation about the piss dossier? I mean seriously, who even cares about golden showers?
 
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Its weird to see so many people complaining that this will bring an end to free speech and will bring more bullies in, because the only bullies I have seen and experienced myself on Twitter are those so called "woke" folks, who will do all they can with their mob, to get you banned or suspended there or on any other media.
Havent been bullied or attacked by any other group, only woke leftist pseudo-liberals with their anxiety, psychosis and narrow mindness on a rampant reporting and hysteria spree.
Yet, here we are, if Musk puts his powers where his mouth is, the tables might turn and those, who felt being above the rest of us, might get exactly the same treatmet that they have, unjustfully, applied to the rest of society.
Thats why theres hysteria online among woke adepts, they fear that they might lose their privileges, just like commies and nazis once had them and lost them, now its time for woke pseudo-anti-nazi warriors to pay for their bullying and unjustified sense of superiority because "muh gender studies and socialism!"...
 
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Does this speak enough on what the market wants? Or nah?
From Truth Social's TOS:

When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:
your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.

Does that sound like free speech to you? Should a social media platform be deciding which posts are misleading?
 
I'm not sure you have a legal case there. The state gov't of Florida granted Disney's special governing status and they can revoke it at will.
I think if you want to defend a clear violation of the first amendment, then you are more concerned about spreading partisan misinformation than free speech. Government retribution for political speech is anathema to those of us who value actual free speech.
 
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