"Isn't that the same James Baker.................."

 It is the same James Baker.

Why are you not getting this? The government is using Twitter to restrict speech for a political reason. It’s the government doing it, not Twitter, they’re just the stick that the FBI is swinging.


 I understand that.  So it's an FBI issue when it comes the the 1st Amendment protections.  Twitter as a private company can work with the Government if they want, and not be a State Actor by definition.

Eegore wrote on 12/07/22 at 05:19:12:


No, I don’t believe they can. This is not the government asking social media companies to put out a PSA. They were asking them to withhold information (during a specific time right before an election) which they knew to be true and they asked for it to be withheld to specifically benefit one of the candidates. And they lied about the reason why the information should be withheld. They fabricated a story they had intelligence that indicated foreign governments would release false stories about Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

So, you approve?

The issue here is the FBI.  

You finally got there!

Eegore wrote on 12/07/22 at 19:33:37:


I’m officially designating a new disease: Switzerland Syndrome. It’s a disease of the central nervous system which causes the afflicted to immediately stake out the middle between two positions at all cost, regardless of the evidence piling up on one side. Common side effects are very slight modifications to the position which seemed to indicate, at first glance, a position shift. However, a closer examination by an experienced professional (me)  reveals that is just a manifestation of the disease which is thought to have evolved as a both a defense mechanism and as a method to lay out future pathways where the disease will once again manifest itself in an attempt to survive within the middle position weeks from now after being confronted with another does of antibiotics, aka Truth.

Unfortunately, the survivability of the Switzerland syndrome is extremely low and that statement is based entirely on forklore as no documented case of an afflicted one stepping away from the middle and onto one side or the other.

The only treatment is a combination of shaking one’s head at the illogical positions taken by the sick and a constant barrage of antibiotics, aka Truth.

So far what I have seen is the FBI is lying to Twitter to get them to remove content.  

Why? Why would the FBI not just lied about but create an elaborate cover story for? What was their intention? Why that particular content over and over?

And you don’t think that to achieve that goal, they convinced, coerced, threatened, a social media platform to restrict posts (speech) that based on historical precedent, the users believed to be free from government interference?

It’s one thing if Twitter by themselves restricted access. Conservatives are very well aware Twitter treats the political parties differently. The difference here is the government acted to restrict the public sharing of information via tweets and direct messages which is essentially email. That’s essentially speech. If we’re going to have lawsuits and laws that say campaign donations are a form of speech (which has been stated) how can we not do the same here and say that post on a social media platform everyone previously believed we’re free from government interference, we’re in fact NOT free from government interference. That rings of a first amendment violation.