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  1. McCroskey
    But you can respect free speech and what that means and that others may have a different opinion than yours? And for the record and this is my last post but my personal opinion is mostly in line with yours. I don’t mind opposing speech or viewpoints in our great country and don’t think it’s typically as “hurtful” as people make it out to be. What a cluster we are in.
  2. McCroskey
    You seem awfully caught up in Hunters dong or dongs in general. Please understand that’s not what the rest of us are trying to discuss.
  3. McCroskey
    “Just weren’t allowed to use Twitter.” Yeah, suddenly, and for reasons that make no sense and should be concerning to people who may not think about precedents. You say this as if removing a media company from sharing their content with over a million people, probably a large % of their base, is a nothingburger. That’s really all I was talking about, I’m not sure why you are spouting the other shit except I guess you want some rep points from someone and think you got a pwn.
  4. McCroskey
    The only place I’m coming from is I’m trying to separate “obviously inappropriate” from “questionably inappropriate.” I think we need lines between the two and they aren’t the same thing. I’m just not explaining it very well with this group, lol.
  5. McCroskey
    I never said the NYP was “unapproachable.” I think you mean irreproachable, but I never said that either. In hindsight, wasn’t it later proven as verified? Didn’t CBS and other outlets recently start discussing the broader topic? I am NOT one of those people you describe. As I said from the beginning, my whole point around this is that I don’t think the NYP as a news outlet should have been suspended from Twitter for a story they posted. A different standard was applied for their story, and why that happened is what I think is important and how do we prevent it from happening again…again from a Musk-owned Twitter who may try to silence a story negative towards him or something he favors.
  6. McCroskey
    That’s the point I made in my own post and why I said I knew you knew that. You didn’t need to cut out the rest to try and make some other point…this is a discussion not a contest.
  7. McCroskey
    Agreed!
  8. McCroskey
    Well I think that’s the point being discussed now, right? I’m quite sure the FEC didn’t have the full scope of what happened at their disposal which is what makes this latest data release interesting. You are reaching. In the CR world that’s about 40 flavors milder than vanilla.
  9. McCroskey
    “Not get called out.” You are a dumb fuck so neg me all you want. Have a post on Elon Musk where 800 posts before me discuss the same shit, yet somehow I came here to be political…which obtw I never did. It’s impossible to have a discussion on this without there potentially being some lines to cross which again is why I said I was mindful of it.
  10. McCroskey
    As I said, my issue has NEVER been about the laptop. As I said, I don’t GAF about the laptop. For some reason you keep going back to that.
  11. McCroskey
    Oh get the fuck out of here you clown. This is a Musk thread where most think he’s a dipshit and lines are being crossed given what he’s doing now.
  12. McCroskey
    Well I really, really don’t want this to be CR talk. The NYP may have been moderated, maybe (I’m not sure of specific examples), but flat out suspended?? I don’t recall seeing where that happened prior to the laptop story. It’s why the whole thing was such a fuck up on Twitter’s part. And the rest of what you said is 100% conjecture.
  13. McCroskey
    “Harmful content.” Are our elected officials deciding exactly what that is so that we know when and when not to apply it? Or, are we being subjective in its use? I know you know the answer and that’s my point. This is a super complicated thing, IMO.
  14. McCroskey
    Dude, I’m not trying to gaslight or do any of that shit. Isn’t what you described exactly why we have “journalistic standards?” And if a media outlet presents information or an article that they say passes their muster (addressing every single issue you mentioned), we give them the initial benefit of the doubt no matter what? Whatever the Post had done to date…99.99% of their content was deemed acceptable. Then suddenly there’s no more benefit of the doubt?
  15. McCroskey
    What am I talking about? New York Post had over a million followers on Twitter at the time, maybe even close to 2 million. Media companies routinely use Twitter and other social media platforms to share their content. I have no idea why you cap-spelled newspaper. So yeah, as badly as you want to marginalize what their suspension means, as I said before to answer the original topic of “what’s the big deal here” it’s that a media company was silenced and unable to share on a platform… The fact we are finding out more now seems appropriate so it doesn’t happen again.
  16. McCroskey
    I have no idea where the CR lines are on this or not so I’ll stop at the risk of making an opinion other than “media outlets as a rule shouldn’t be suspended like what the Post endured” …but ultimately I find it hilarious people are shitting on Musk for sharing all this new information. I get that people hate him and want to see him fail. Richest man in the world doesn’t mean he’s a visionary, that’s for sure. The fact it hits such a nerve to some makes me think he’s doing something needed, however.
  17. McCroskey
    And perhaps I misunderstood…the Post was suspended and unable to post anything on twitter for like 2-3 weeks after posting the laptop story. That’s what I meant by “shut down.”
  18. McCroskey
    He seems to have hit the mark. I would argue the opposite. If they were posting that much with no effect then why the sudden change?
  19. McCroskey
    I think where I draw the line is that news outlets shouldn’t be silenced/suppressed/censored (whatever you want to cal it) on popular social media platforms purely for political reasons, period. The biggest issue here to me isn’t remotely what Hunter had, did, lost, etc…, it’s that a media outlet like the New York Post was shut down for reasons that shouldn’t happen.
  20. McCroskey
    Jiang Zemin (96) died a couple days ago. Would you all believe someone in the thread actually picked him? That’s one way to earn 4 points. RIP.
  21. McCroskey
    Man, fuck that punch bag Raphael.
  22. McCroskey
    Go Kylie
  23. McCroskey
    Raving psycho! Butchered 400 chickens and screwed a beagle. I’m taking him back to Nevada where he’s wanted for banging horses!
  24. McCroskey
    He was already on my planned list…hope he pulls though the next month.
  25. McCroskey
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