Twitter refuses to unlock New York Post
account unless Hunter Biden posts deleted
Fox Business,
by
Audrey Conklin
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/18/2020 4:27:18 AM
Twitter has refused to unlock the New York Post's account since Wednesday unless the outlet deletes six tweets about its reporting on 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, the Post reported.
Both the San Francisco-based social media platform and Facebook came under fire this week after the two blocked users from sharing a Post article showing purported communication between 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company.
The younger Biden's work in the country while his father was vice president was at the heart of President Trump's impeachment trial earlier this year.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 10/18/2020 5:54:24 AM (No. 576008)
Twitter is playing with fire.
85 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Petronius 10/18/2020 6:42:59 AM (No. 576025)
Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok et al need to be banned. They do more evil than good and are detrimental to a properly functioning society.
87 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pucky1 10/18/2020 6:48:52 AM (No. 576028)
Twitter is deluded if it thinks it can block the story. The story is OUT THERE. It's like Twitter is the lone section of earth pretending it can hold back a Mississippi flood. No one cares.
And all it does is ramp up ill will toward Twitter. Some one is giving Dorsey bad advice.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
laurenc 10/18/2020 6:59:07 AM (No. 576031)
The Feds can do something about this - if they want to. Congress is useless, but there are agencies who can make Twitter's life uncomfrotable.
70 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/18/2020 7:12:06 AM (No. 576043)
As the President has alluded, Twitter and Fakebook are in for a huge reckoning. Their arrogant foreign managers will crash and burn once their US market collapses.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
planetgeo 10/18/2020 7:23:36 AM (No. 576058)
This is the "Streisand effect" on steroids. The more they desperately try to hide the Biden Crime Family story the more attention they are drawing to it. Everybody is now talking about it. The New York Post is a major newspaper. There is indisputable evidence. There are witnesses. So there is no legitimate reason to ban the article and certainly no legitimate reason to ban the New York Post.
But they are making it clear that there is now a legitimate reason to place penalties and controls on Twitter and other hive-minded social media monopolies.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/18/2020 7:37:42 AM (No. 576077)
No one cares? If no one cares why is ill will be ramping up?
Dorsey is GIVING Twitter bad INSTRUCTIONS (to censor the Biden email scandal).
Too many Republican members of the House and Senate dearly love the huge campaign contributions they get from Twitter. This does not portend (necessary!) amendments to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lazyman 10/18/2020 7:43:32 AM (No. 576082)
I'm hoping they don't buy the local gas company. I'd hate to have my gas turned off because I liked a pro Trump post.
37 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/18/2020 7:50:16 AM (No. 576089)
Achtung mein fuhrer! It is understood that this is merely a donation-in-kind to the forces now in charge of the Democrat National Party. The fuhrer has been quite fond of the ''national party'' idea since about 1938.
26 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
paral04 10/18/2020 7:57:35 AM (No. 576100)
Why do people use these services? They censor people who don't agree with them and make money while they are at it. Surely a Conservative group can come up with something better.
33 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/18/2020 8:12:26 AM (No. 576113)
Just for some balance: Dorset may be enabling Twitter's reprehensible political interference, but he might very well get lynched by his own employees if he was any different. They've been drinking the kool-aid for years and are all self-righteous Karen's.
Its really sad, but they think THEY are the Righteous, working toward the salvation of Earth and all things Green. Humanity is just a disease in their minds and they would happily troop off to volcanoes and hurl themselves in if they actually won. Their Leaders... not so much.
They'd find new threats to keep their brainwashed steeple occupied. The Bidens, Clinton and Soros' of the world need comforts only hordes of obedient slaves can provide.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/18/2020 8:20:38 AM (No. 576129)
If you have a twitter account, close it...immediately and never go back. No users, No more market. No more twitter. Make this a subtle hint to the msm that this will also soon be happening to them.
29 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
John C 10/18/2020 8:24:03 AM (No. 576133)
One of the struggling alternative news sites (NOQreport) has this headline:
Anna Makanju, Facebook’s Public Policy Manager for Global Elections, was Joe Biden’s senior policy adviser… on Ukraine
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/18/2020 8:30:05 AM (No. 576143)
There already is, #11. Parler. It’s from the French verb meaning “to speak”.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
rsgonner 10/18/2020 8:37:04 AM (No. 576147)
Here's a thought: resist the fascist oligarch's of Big Tech. They will be de-regulated soon and that revenge will be sweeter than anything we have seen in years. Stories such as this just inflame the population more. I say keep it going.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 10/18/2020 8:38:23 AM (No. 576149)
Let Twitter, et.al., do what they want to do. What they need is some stiff competition, and I think that will happen once people get enough of their crap.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Muguy 10/18/2020 8:53:08 AM (No. 576162)
There is a radio host in San Antonio name Joe Pags who has over 400,000 friends and followers on Fakebook, but is only allowed a potential reach of followers of about 10,000 or less.
Twitter shut him down when he said that HCQ often had beneficial effects on patients with Covid.
These groups made BIG MONEY off of leveraging his supporters, and then disenfranchised Mr. Pags for bringing them business.
It is a huge RIP OFF and as a result many have gone over to Parler.
This election cycle has been more about masks and Covid than REAL issues that face the nation.
Mr. Trump's health is made an issue, while Bite Me's health and LACK of it gets a pass.
Now they want to sweep the Hunter/Joe scandal under the rug.
Spread the word-- it's out there.
Fakebook and Twitter are NOT REALITY. Editorializing by not reporting or allowing the reporting of the TRUTH, they are going to be taken down a notch if Mr. Trump wins with an overwhelming margin of the popular vote to shut up those opposed, and the free flow of information might actually return--
Reality is what we live OFF LINE, and it is about people and not manipulation through the CONSTANT drumbeat of media propaganda
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
janjan 10/18/2020 8:55:29 AM (No. 576163)
Twitter and Facebook are both pushing Congress into a corner. Both parties are forced to come after them. It will end badly.
16 people like this.
Twitter has become irrelevant.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 10/18/2020 9:03:29 AM (No. 576175)
This is what happens when you let your kids grow up watching Captain Planet.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
starboard 10/18/2020 10:02:07 AM (No. 576236)
For the past 20 years Nancy Pelosi's chief supply of money has been Silicon Valley. They own her. They have given her the power to do whatever they say. Soros is small potatoes compared to Big Tech and China. The Dems keep trying to play Russia as the bad guy...that's only a decoy. The elites of Washington are deeply in bed with Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party. We know who they are by their constant hateful drum beat for Trump ...Conway. Kristol, Romney to name a few. They will stab their mother in the back for a quick billion.
This story about Hunter is not a shock to Washington. All of this started with the Clintons. Biden decided to play the Washington game and wasn't smart enough to cover his tracks. It's called arrogance. I have no sympathy for them and pray there are consequences. I have a funny feeling Biden is going to become sick before the election. He looks pretty bad right now.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kafka2 10/18/2020 10:03:49 AM (No. 576239)
Twitter deserves the Joseph Goebbels Award for their outstanding job of perverting the truth.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 10/18/2020 10:27:51 AM (No. 576275)
#8, I had the same thought pattern when thinking about Costco. They took a product off the shelves (I think Palmetto Cheese is the name of the company) because the CEO stated that BLM and Antifa are terrorist organizations. So should Costco refuse membership to anyone who holds that belief?
Oh, and by the way, I think it is ridiculous that there are people in jail or prison serving time for less matters than what the Bidens have done. The more Twitter, Facebook etc. prop up Joe Biden, the guiltier and weaker he looks.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/18/2020 11:13:13 AM (No. 576337)
Re #24. I saw that about Costco. I had belonged a few years ago but dropped out and was thinking about re-joining but that story about the cheese company changed my mind. I have started trying to not do business with big 'woke' corporations. Hard to do. We have several small independent markets in my little city and we try to buy as much as we can from them. To my regret, I still use Amazon since I haven't found a good alternative yet. We are also trying to avoid Chinese products. That's also almost impossible. I looked at my CPap machine the other day...made in China...the sanitizer for it...made in China...my wife's heart monitor...made in China...my pajamas....made in China, etc., etc., etc.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zigrid 10/18/2020 11:17:42 AM (No. 576344)
The most important result of tweeter playing dictator with information has been Americans have finally seen the damage these social media giants can do....their efforts to shut down the story .... only made it more available at other sites....so I think the ramifications of their heavy handedness will finally insure more Americans pull their support from the companies...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/18/2020 11:33:59 AM (No. 576365)
Come to find out today, one of Biden's former advisers works on FB as the election policy adviser or something like that for Zuckerberg. So it is not surprising anymore to see just how deeply social media has given up its corporate protections to thrown in with democrats. But hopefully when the election is all decided next month, Trump will not let this censorship stand for long.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/18/2020 11:38:13 AM (No. 576367)
Parler or Gab for Twitter, though I would suggest Parler for most people, and MeWe is the alternative for FB. Set up pretty much like FB, but without the censorship, data mining and selling of your information. Seriously, what is it going to take for people to dump the current social media, vs just complaining about it? There are alternatives out there.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
marbles 10/18/2020 12:06:02 PM (No. 576408)
#14 Thats correct. She is and was both those things
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 10/18/2020 12:33:21 PM (No. 576439)
Even George Orwell couldn't have predicted that when Big Brother took control, the Ministry of Truth would be privatized. It's mind-boggling to have private industry monopolies run interference for the ruling class by controlling what can and cannot be said on Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Youtube, et al. If only we had a two-party system where the party in favor of free speech under the First Amendment would fight to keep the avenues of public discourse open to all points of view.
8 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 10/18/2020 12:50:14 PM (No. 576450)
If President Trump would close his acount and move to another social media site, Like PARLER, TWITTER would REALLY get the point.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
NotaBene 10/18/2020 1:06:47 PM (No. 576471)
An excellent alternative to Google is Duck Duck Go.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
msjena 10/18/2020 2:34:27 PM (No. 576533)
Parler isn’t user friendly. I still. can’t figure out how to use it. If Twitter wants to control content, it should be liable for defamatory content. They can’t have it both ways.
3 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 10/18/2020 4:15:28 PM (No. 576611)
Me thinks that they are going to regret this!!!!!!!!!!!!
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