Comment by ehsankia | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ehsankia | Hacker News Reader

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Let's look at how great of a point Greenwald is making.

> they created a social media platform similar to Twitter but which promised far greater privacy protections.

Not stripping EXIF data, getting social security number from users, using the trial version of their IAM system, poorly coded allowing everyone to exfiltrate the data and god knows how many other exploits. So much for privacy...

> As Silicon Valley censorship radically escalated over the past several months — banning pre-election reporting by The New York Post about the Biden family

Yeah, what happened to that? Looks like they suddenly stopped caring about that, and no one ever managed to corroborate the obviously fake news pushed by NYP. Let's not forget how Carlson went on a whole fake drama about "losing incriminating papers", but then when UPS found the papers, suddenly Carlson says he no longer wants to spill secrets about hunters private life... What?

This whole thing is BS. The Pirate Bay was deplatformed orders of magnitude harder than Parler ever did and they survived just fine. Parler was just created by a bunch of people who had no clue what they were doing, and they crumbled by their own inaptitude.

>no one ever managed to corroborate the obviously fake news pushed by NYP.

At least two of the messages were DKIM-authenticated by an unrelated third party. Combine that with:

* The FBI, the DOJ, and the DNI all refuting the "Russian disinfo" theory

* Biden's campaign explicitly refusing to call the emails inauthentic

* Pics of Hunter in compromising positions

* The laptop being the subject of a grand jury subpoena

...and there's more evidence pointing towards the story's legitimacy than away from it. In fact, that leaves the only real thing pointing away as "it's a sketchy-ass tabloid", which is adhom at the end of the day.

Greenwald is unrecognizable from the Snowden era. It’s like a dementia victim morphing into a completely different person. Very sad to see him like this. The Hunter Biden article fiasco is embarrassing for him, and this makes it appear he is just doubling down in tabloid garbage right-leaning-for-attention nonsense.

The US has one of its worst, most cruel, presidential administrations in its history and the only subject he is obsessed with critiquing is the left and media and tech companies.

Here's one of his takes from a week before the coup. It aged hilariously poorly.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian...

Wild to me that so many people think that the Hunter Biden fiasco is now settled.

As with almost everything with these lower quality right wing media content, there's a whole lot of brouhaha, and then suddenly it all goes silent and they're never called out for their lies. They just sweep it under the rug and move on. Meanwhile, whenever the NYT gets something wrong, they come out publicly with a redaction, and people use that as proof that NYT is "fake news". I've never seen right wing news ever write a redaction for the countless lies they've posted.

Just last week, all of right wing media was full of posts about those 3 people at the capitol being antifa. Their proof? A cropped image of Q Shaman at a BLM protest (coincidentally cropping his Q sign), and a Google Image Search finding a photo of the other two guys on phillyantifa.com, even though clicking on the page showed that it was an article about white supremacists.

Feel free to come back and post here once the hunter biden "fiasco" gets resolved, but the fact that Tucker Carlson suddenly decided that he no longer cared right after receiving his "highly incriminating secret papers" tells me everything I need to know about the drama.

Yeah, I think the laptop mostly smelled like bullshit, but still think there are legitimate concerns around Burisma and whether pay-for-access happened.

There is zero credible evidence about pay for access. Meanwhile the people spending their entire life digging through Burisma seem to not give a single shit about the hundreds of pay-for-access story surrounding Trump and his properties. Foreign countries literally booking dozens of his properties for months inhabited.

Trump's own children literally got jobs at the white house, ffs. The hypocrisy is deafening.

> Trump's own children literally got jobs at the white house, ffs. The hypocrisy is deafening.

One politician being corrupt does not reduce the likelihood of another politician being corrupt.

And one politician being corrupt doesn't mean that they are all corrupt. Get back to us when there is actual proof of corruption and not the same right wing rage machine making all kinds of baseless allegations.

Yeah honestly wondering if mental illness or drug abuse may be at play to explain such a dramatic change in journalistic integrity.

Greenwald is part of the reason I would not touch Substack.

Horrible font kerning is arguably even more eggregious reason to not touch Substack.

Agreed, I just checked and their web view is a readability nightmare, though thankfully it does not apply to mailing lists. (I read a couple of Substack publications via email, but am unwilling to pay for it or publish through it myself as infatuation of folks like Greenwald with it and Kik background lend it a dubious aura.)

Thanks for this. Society needs to start setting a higher bar for public discourse all around.

Tired of these bullshit conspiracy theories running rampant on certain media platforms. There have been dozens of them since the election alone and not a single one has been validated. You would think people would be tired of being obviously fooled over and over, but it seems every time another fake story comes along, they take the bait.

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