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A direct line to threaten decision makers? Or to point out possible misinformation spreaders?


Threaten. Because of the implication.


Do you think Elon would ever shut up about it if he was getting threatened by Biden and the FBI?


It was before Elon.


> Because of the implication

What was the implication? Twitter had no business in front of the federal government. They were wilfully complying.

That doesn't make it okay. But it's a total retconning of actual history to suggest this was government censorship in any form.


Musk owned Twitter for years of the Biden admin, at least one year of that was him openly simping for Trump.

So... what sort of threat was this, that suddenly disappeared when Musk bought it? How credible was the threat if Musk was able to release the Twitter Files without repercussions from the Biden admin?


The Twitter files happened before Elon. He stopped it once he got in.

And the implication of repercussions were for employees that were in charge of removing content. Not for the head honchos.


What were those repercussions? Besides just being fired for not doing what their employer wanted (indicating complicity from the company rather than pressure from the government)?




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