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Comment by ethanbond | Hacker News Reader

Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files:

“There's no evidence — that I've seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story."

Matt Taibbi also on the Twitter Files: thousands of lines, citations, and evidence about goverment directly and covertly asking Big Tech to censor content and people on all kinds of issues, keeping tabs on how that goes, threatening, and so on.

Which is actually pertinent to the discussion, as opposed to Biden's son laptop.

The government had a more direct “report content” button. Twitter is free, has been free, continues to be free, to ignore or actively reject almost all such requests. These rights are extremely well-established, extremely well-defended, extremely well-known to the lawyers Twitter has on staff. The US has a rich history of being successfully sued for coercing private parties, which Twitter has still never claimed actually occurred to them.

>Twitter is free, has been free, continues to be free, to ignore or actively reject almost all such requests.

Of course it's free to ignore or actively reject all such requests from an entity like the government. Kind of like how a shop owner is free to ignore requests from the goodfellas that pass by and say "Great shop you got here. It would be a shame if anything happened to it".

So true bud. If only there were 200 years of case law on this exact thing.

Yes, and we all hope that the Missouri v. Biden case currently before the Supreme Court will add to that body of case law and further restrict government's ability to interfere with social media.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4198285-missouri-v-bid...

Indeed! And would you look at that... it's almost like there are free speech protections in this country

Yes, it's against the law, not to mention ...unethical. So it's not happening.

If you are not in Turkey than it might be free: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4019109-twitters-turke...

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