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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Free press, how soon some forget,
Date: 01/07/25 10:56 AM
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“Protecting
Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in
Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story” to investigate how and why Twitter suppressed the New York Post. "


Yes, HCL, so nuanced we had to get the Supreme Court to decide on election interference. Y'all wanted Government interference in free speech in elections. Even a suspect Supreme Court thinks you were clearly erroneous and presented no proof.

SNIP The U.S. Supreme Court handed a major victory for the Biden administration Wednesday, throwing out a lower court ruling that had placed major restrictions on the ability of government officials to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies.

While the court’s ruling was procedural, it was nonetheless a stark repudiation of two lower courts in the South, and their eagerness to embrace conspiracy theories about alleged government coercion of social media companies.
A right-wing legal and political campaign has disrupted the work of government agencies meant to safeguard voting and subjected researchers studying online harms to harassment and death threats.
Untangling Disinformation
What it means for the election that the government can talk to tech companies

Writing for a liberal-conservative coalition of six justices, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that neither the five individuals nor the two states who sued the government had legal standing to be in court at all. She said they presented no proof to back up their claims that the government had pressured social media companies like Twitter and Facebook into restricting their speech. “Unfortunately,” she said, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals “relied on factual findings that are “clearly erroneous.” SNIP

npr.org - Supreme court social media case

So go hide behind Hunter Biden, we know what you're up to and your corrupt court judges.
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