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Originally Posted by whell

Bullshit. Among others, post 3115 lays it out pretty clearly. The Fed government didn't censor anyone, but they put pressure on the right people in the right places to get others to do it for them. Go back and look at what I posted: the FBI even told the folks at Twitter that they weren't happy with Twitter's efforts to that point.

Was that the gov't intent with their outreach to Twitter and others? The FBI says no, but the tactics used and the folks involved tend to paint a different picture. If it wasn't their intent, then lump it in with the law of unintended consequences.

Either way, the result is the same: the Feds involved themselves, which resulted in Twitter and others removing or deprioritizing content that they wouldn't have otherwise reacted to.

Translation: While I agree that they didn't compel anyone to do anything, if I repeat it often enough credulous MAGAMorons like me will believe it.

Twitter's own lawyers refuted Musk and Taibbi's assertion of coercion in court filings:

“Nothing in the new materials shows any governmental actor compelling or even discussing any content-moderation action with respect to Trump” and others participating in the suit, Twitter argued.

The communications unearthed as part of the Twitter Files do not show coercion, Twitter’s lawyers wrote, “because they do not contain a specific government demand to remove content—let alone one backed by the threat of government sanction.”

“Instead,” the filing continued, the communications “show that the [FBI] issued general updates about their efforts to combat foreign interference in the 2020 election...”

Citing another case, Twitter wrote: “The FBI’s ‘flags’ cannot amount to coercion because there was ‘no intimation that Twitter would suffer adverse consequences if it refused.’”

https://www.wral.com/twitter-s-own-l...ship/20898085/