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@Roundandroundwego
Certainly, it was illegal to with hold the lap top contents from publication.

@MarthannBann888 yes, demanding that the laptop story go away probably wasn't illegal if you're a Dem, it's probably not interesting to you about the Twitter files, Dem politicians censoring the internet - demanding that Twitter "find" Russian accounts...if you are one.

@Roundandroundwego
You can, and do, go around and around. Bottom line. Dems are by far and away the winners of the dirty tricks. They, the dems, do so much it is difficult to keep up with them. I appreciate your grudging acknowledgement of the FBI. But, I don't appreciate your nasty remark about interest and it tells me you are quite willing to make up your facts once you get going. Probably, what the FBI did endangered all of us. Frankly, I would not want to be in a party that was going along with all of that.
And, no I don't believe you since you have already lied.

@Roundandroundwego @MarthannBann888 Twitter is a private social media company. It's not illegal for them to withhold anything they don't want to publish. They haven't published your tax returns, is that illegal too?

What about how Twitter allowed Cheeto Benito to violate their ToS for 5 years before finally booting him?

@LeopoldBloom we have a private company acting as public square. Why can't Congress either nationalize Twitter or provide rival platforms? No platform is kinda no democracy. So it's actually very important to the right wing that people have no platform or town square. You probably want to claim I'm being aggressive to link politics to speaking and the public square. Why admit anything at all?

@Roundandroundwego There are rival platforms. Twitter isn't the only social media outlet. And there are plenty of right wing ones, like GETTR, Parler, TruthSocial, and Gab. The problem is that unmoderated right wing outlets turn into cesspools, so advertisers aren't interested in them and their reach is limited to people inclined to fall for conspiracy theories and other fake news. The reason TikTok is so popular is because it's heavily moderated and appeals to more people and therefore more advertisers.

Why would nationalizing Twitter help? A government-controlled social media outlet would only release information favorable to whatever administration happened to be in office at the time.

@MarthannBann888 How is Twitter a monopoly when there are so many other social media companies? You don't seem to understand what a monopoly is. Besides, I thought you people worship Elon Musk as the smartest man in the world, who rescued Twitter from the evil commies who ran it before he took over and instituted "free speech" on the platform.

@LeopoldBloom maybe you shouldn't have private internet platforms that can censor people without public funded independent platforms that can't.
It's radical and frightening and not PC, I know! But maybe a corporation should not have that much influence over what can be heard and said.

@Roundandroundwego Maybe we should have a communist dictatorship where there aren't any private companies whatsoever, and the government can censor whoever they like while giving a platform to people they approve of.

You don't seem to be aware that there are other platforms besides Twitter. And they're not "censoring" anyone; they're enforcing the terms of service that users agreed to when they signed up. If those are too oppressive, you can always go to Gab that has virtually no restrictions. You can say anything you want there. The problem is, no one will hear you because it's a right-wing cesspool. If you want a larger audience, you have to use Twitter, Facebook, or one of the other giants that moderate users and as a result are able to attract advertisers.

A publicly funded platform by definition would not be independent.

@LeopoldBloom people can make laws that specifically make public independent platforms available. We don't have a democracy, but free people in a democracy could have a free independence thriving media landscape.

@LeopoldBloom
Leopold
I understand quite well what a monopoly is. I also understand what you do not, and that that there are several factors courts consider. For example, when the courts broke up ma bell, there were other phone companies struggling to compete, but were not able, the court deemed that the reach of ma bell was prohibitive to the healthy growth of competition. I am sure there are differences that informed people will understand, but no two cases are exactly the same.
Leopold, did you know that the word sarcasm comes from the ancient Greek word, sarcasa. It means to rip out the heart.
Truth is, I don't remember "worshipping" Musk. Rather defeats the spirit of Christianity, wouldn't you say?
Using the word "commie" gave you away because they really are the ones who don't believe in free speech.
Think of it this way, you are abysmally ignorant, but you think you know it all. If you were granted free speech and others, more knowledgeable, were denied free speech in deference to you, you can see how much of a disaster it would be:)

@Roundandroundwego
You are so brainwashed.
But, how else could your party make you believe their honest election had no cheating.
To me that filthy election was the destroyer of democracy. I could smell the dead people in Georgia voting here in Alabama.

@MarthannBann888 what party? The Dems certainly don't do stuff a leftist would like. Your party! Which fake side do you fake sise with?