On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 6:25 PM grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Recording this censorship event here, illustrating need for development > and adoption of more distributed uncensorable platforms, > so that people can freely think, speak, consider, subscribe, > denounce, support, debate, leak, publish, etc... for themselves. >
Hey I was distracted by being silly. You propose projects a lot. I am really passionate about distributed uncensorable platforms, I'm aware of some needing dev work, and interested in making new ones. Do you have any interest in dev work? > > > > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/smoking-gun-emails-show-hunter-biden-introduced-vp-dad-burisma-executive > > https://web.archive.org/web/20201014221628/https://www.zerohedge.com/political/smoking-gun-emails-show-hunter-biden-introduced-vp-dad-burisma-executive > > " > Ted Cruz Accuses Twitter Of Meddling In 2020 Election By Censoring > Hunter Biden Exposé > Profile picture for user Tyler Durden > by Tyler Durden > Wed, 10/14/2020 - 16:57 > > Update (1645ET): As the uproar over Twitter & Facebook's efforts to > suppress Wednesday's New York Post exposè intensifies, Twitter has > (begrudgingly, we imagine) made mention of the scandal in its trending > topics. > > Ironically, Streisand Effect is trending nationally - that's a subtle > reference to the principle of how trying to suppress information often > accidentally causes it to spread. > > Several slots below that is #HunterBiden. > > Quietly backtracking suggests Twitter is beginning to regret its > decision to censor the story. > > Meanwhile, as the mainstream media desperately tries to change the > subject... > > Billboard outside Des Moines airport where Trump holds Iowa rally > tonight. pic.twitter.com/XHix45wzlw > — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 14, 2020 > > ...Ted Cruz, coming in hot off his performance during the ACB hearings > this week, tweeted a copy of a letter he recently sent to the CEO of > Twitter, Jack Dorsey, > > Facebook official spox (who describes himself as an alum of the > DCCC & former Dem Sen. Barbara Boxer) explains Facebook’s active > censorship of @nypost story alleging corruption by Biden. > > Who could doubt their impartiality? https://t.co/GITjkeEJP4 > — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 14, 2020 > > My letter to @jack regarding @Twitter’s censorship of the @nypost. > pic.twitter.com/o3Ebkbqait > — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 14, 2020 > > As Cruz argues in the letter, like myriad other newspaper reports > published during the Trump era (too many to even begin to name here), > the NYPost story was based on "leaked email correspondence". He adds > that the decision to suppress the story was "hypocritical", given the > company has allowed plenty of other less definitively sourced > reporting to spread unchecked. > > Twitter well-knows its incredible ability to influence public > dialogue by promoting some stories while suppressing others, and it > has plainly decided that the American people should not be seeing or > discussing this particular story, which could significantly influence > voters' views of candidate Biden. > > Cruz concluded that "this can only be seen as an obvious and > transparent attempt by Twitter to influence the upcoming Presidential > election," and demanded that the social media company turn over > important details to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. > > The most important of the four question (the first three mostly cover > the whos, wheres, whens, and hows) is the last one, which asks Twitter > to cite a "neutral principle" which would explain why the reporting on > the Steele dossier was allowed to go unquestioned, but this story, > reported in the country's 4th-highest circulation newspaper, must be > censored because it's "dangerous". > > Eric Weinstein seized the opportunity to make a great point. > > I am deliberately posing here with actual “potentially harmful” > objects found in my home. I still have minor in the house. > > Please @jack, let me know if I‘m violating Twitter’s Terms of > Service as understood by your trusted Partners. > > I am so disappointed in you. This is *wrong*. > pic.twitter.com/jqIXQtuNvC > — Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) October 14, 2020 > > An editor at the Post accused Twitter of waging a "digital civil war" > against conservatives, citing this as the latest evidence. > > This is a Big Tech information coup. This is digital civil war. > > I, an editor at The New York Post, one of the nation’s largest > papers by circulation, can’t post one of our own stories that details > corruption by a major-party presidential candidate, Biden. > pic.twitter.com/BKNQmAG19H > — Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 14, 2020 > > By censoring the NYPost story, Twitter and Facebook have effectively > allowed what many would have written off as "just another crazy Hunter > story" to take on a life of its own. Ironically, they've accomplished > what they were purportedly trying to prevent: they've given the story > even more oxygen. > > * * * > > Update (1455ET): If you thought Twitter's censorship of the NYPost > Hunter Biden exposé couldn't get anymore Orwellian, well, you were > wrong. > > As if preventing users from sharing the link wasn't enough, the > platform has now deleted the NYP's initial tweet. > > Twitter deleted @nypost’s tweet about the Hunter Biden bombshell. > This is election interference. We’ve entered the age where we have a > "ministry of truth" run by Democrats and only they decide what’s true. > They demand that you no longer believe your lying eyes & ears. > > Chilling. pic.twitter.com/rl6oPZMv5V > — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 14, 2020 > > We imagine it did so after a flood of hysterical leftists smashed that > "report tweet" button. > > Meanwhile, after the Biden campaign neglected to comment on the > veracity of the emails shared in the NYPost expose, the White House > pool reporter reported that the Biden campaign had called a "lid" - > that is, an end to all in-person campaign-related events - before > 10am, ensuring the former VP wouldn't have any prolonged in person > contact with reporters on the same day the expose dropped. > > As we've explained in the past, a "lid" is essentially permission for > the doting reporters covering Biden's campaign to head home for the > day. His campaign's frequent use of the practice has drawn more > unwanted attention to the cozy relationship between the Biden campaign > and the Washington Press corp. > > * * * > > Update (1430ET): Twitter is now apparently flagging this morning's NY > Post report as "unsafe" and refusing to allow its users to share it. > > This is what happens when I try to post our story exposing Biden > family graft. pic.twitter.com/7pwxUoNgTX > — Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 14, 2020 > > Also pic.twitter.com/hyES7QWwCn > — 🍂 joe 🍂 (@BarnasJoe) October 14, 2020 > > This is an escalation from earlier, when Twitter was merely prompting > users to reconsider before sharing. > > * * * > > Update (1405ET): While left-wing conspiracy theorists try to denounce > the emails published by the NYP as fake, the Trump Campaign has just > pointed out something very interesting in its latest comment on the > issue. > > 🚨📩 INBOX —> @TeamTrump statement on Biden response to NY Post > Bombshell: > > “The Biden campaign does not dispute the authenticity of the > emails published by the New York Post, which serves to confirm that > they are real,” says @TimMurtaugh pic.twitter.com/2UScI1pQ45 > — Abigail Marone 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) October 14, 2020 > > This medium post purporting to show that the emails were > "photoshopped" has been making the rounds - unimpeded - on social > media. > > * * * > > Update (1310ET): In the social media contest to see which platforms > can successfully suppress Wednesday's NYP Hunter Biden scoop, it looks > like Twitter has taken the lead. In addition to scrubbing Hunter's > name from its trending topics, Twitter is hitting users trying to > retweet the story with one of their "are you sure?" prompts. > > Twitter now too pic.twitter.com/TGTve2mXuC > — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 14, 2020 > > * * * > > Update (1255ET): Hours after the Trump Campaign earlier blasted the > Biden Campaign's "blatant selling of access", team Biden has finally > responded by asserting that the meeting between VP Biden and a top > Burisma executive described in one of the leaked emails detailed below > never took place. > > “We have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no > meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place,” said > campaign spokesman Andrew Bates in a statement. > > New: Biden campaign responds to NY Post story. “The New York Post > never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this > story...moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from > the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took > place.” pic.twitter.com/yB2N5mvsXb > — Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 14, 2020 > > The team also claimed that they were never approached by the reporters > who published the story. > > To be sure, just because it wasn't on Biden's "official" schedule, > doesn't mean it didn't happen. > > The Biden campaign’s response to the NY Post story is that Biden’s > meeting with the corrupt official of a corrupt Ukrainian gas company > isn’t on Biden’s official schedule. No one was expecting it to be on > his official schedule. https://t.co/Pog0xqtsF5 > — Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) October 14, 2020 > > The Biden camp also claimed the NY Post did nothing to try and > corroborate the "unverified" emails. > > Notably, the NY Post has shared one of the emails in full in a PDF > document. > > 480001185 Email From Vadim Pozharskyi to Devon Archer and Hunter Biden > by Zerohedge on Scribd > > Critics are calling for the Post to release metadata from the emails, > or some other clue to verify the messages. > > Meanwhile, Trump Campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh makes a good point. > > "The real question is, as of course this has been seized by the FBI > since then, why has the FBI been sitting on this?" Murtaugh said, > adding, "I would also further point out that no one seemed to care > when someone committed an obvious federal crime by leaking the > president’s tax documents to the New York Times." > > * * * > > Update (1150ET): More high-profile conservatives have lashed out at > Facebook for censoring the story about Hunter Biden. > > This is straight-up election interference by @Facebook, being > announced by their comms person who touts in his bio numerous past > jobs with Dems. Big Tech is openly trying to rig this election for > Biden & should be held accountable immediately. @FCC @senjudiciary > @SenateCommerce https://t.co/NO2eG6D6K0 > — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 14, 2020 > > Holy bleeping bleep. Facebook explicitly admitting it is > protecting Biden -- and interfering in the presidential election -- by > censoring media outlets and limiting discussion of today's breaking > news about Biden's engagement with Burisma. https://t.co/nF07qqyc5J > — Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 14, 2020 > > Facebook is openly admitting its interference in a U.S. > presidential election by blatantly censoring media outlets that print > negative facts about their preferred presidential candidate, Joe > Biden. Terrifying. https://t.co/nF07qqyc5J > — Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 14, 2020 > > The most Pravda-like thing is that the immediate pushback by > Biden's many allies in Big Media and Big Tech serve as confirmation of > the story and how damaging it is to the Biden campaign. If it weren't > true, they'd just say that, rather than censor its distribution. > — Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 14, 2020 > > Of course, Facebook isn't alone: Twitter is also keeping the story out > of its trending topics menu. > > Twitter clearly also part of Big Tech's presidential election > interference and their censorship of the negative facts surrounding > Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. https://t.co/2bGKIEv5K5 > — Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 14, 2020 > > We're also seeing an avalanche of memes. > > I had to... pic.twitter.com/lueR5wIm9X > — M3thods (@M2Madness) October 14, 2020 > > While the hard drive has been turned over to the FBI, the Senate > Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmed it's > working with the computer repairman who initially discovered the hard > drive to "verify" the documents. The repairman initially contacted the > committee back in September, one day after it released the report on > conflicts related to Hunter, per the NY Post. > > Some other revelations have been publicized from the email cache: In a > follow-up piece, the NY Post revealed that Blue Star Strategies, > identified by the NY Post as a "Democratic" PR firm, leaked the > minutes of an administration conference call to Burisma executive > Vadym Pozharskyi along with Hunter Biden and his former business > partner Devon Archer. > > * * * > > Update (1145ET): Rumor has it that one of the lewd videos mentioned > earlier features Hunter Biden smoking crack and having sexual > relations with an unidentified woman. > > 11. Allegedly, the laptop Hunter "forgot" to pick up also contains > a 12 minute video of him smoking crack and having sex with an > unidentified woman. > — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 14, 2020 > > Truly legendary. > > * * * > > Update (1115ET): In a surprising move to censor a mainstream media > outlet known for leaning conservative, Facebook's platform managers > have decided to actively suppress distribution of the latest Hunter > Biden expose. > > While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want > be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's > third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing > its distribution on our platform. > — Andy Stone (@andymstone) October 14, 2020 > > The Trump Campaign accused Stone and the company of actively > interfering in the election. > > This is a Facebook employee. > > Facebook is actively interfering in the election. > > Facebook is rigging the election for Joe Biden. > https://t.co/mXGi2ay8J7 pic.twitter.com/PjtZaVPQ16 > — Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2020 > > Republicans and conservatives across Twitter and elsewhere also > expressed their dismay at the decision. > > While CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that Facebook has some > obligation to censor or root out "misinformation", this story isn't > what that is. Keep in mind, Facebook censored ZERO stories about the > Russia investigation and its origins, even as some key elements of the > NYT's early reporting were found to be false. > > Facebook, as a matter of policy, is now censoring stories > detailing documented corruption by Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. > > At no point did Facebook ever seek to throttle the reach of any > Russian-disinformation-fueled stories falsely alleging collusion. > https://t.co/N8ktaqCn2J > — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 14, 2020 > > Twitter is censoring the president and shadow-banning > conservatives, Facebook is blocking negative stories about Joe Biden > and his crackhead son, and Google is kow-towing to communist China, in > case you were wondering whether Big Tech is conspiring to steal the > 2020 election. > — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 14, 2020 > > To be sure, mainstream media are abiding with a near-blackout, just as > we had anticipated. > > Any time legacy media drops a supposed "bombshell" on Trump, it > immediately hits the front pages. > > Still waiting on NYT, WaPo, and CNN however to write anything on > the @nypost's actual bombshell on Joe Biden lying about what he knew > of his son's overseas business interests. pic.twitter.com/amcilH0cv0 > — Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) October 14, 2020 > > It's like veteran political journalist Matt Taibbi (hardly a > conservative) has argued: best-case, enforcing "misinformation" is a > laborious game of whack-a-mole. But right now, it's just simply > opening the companies to accusations of bias because that's what they > are showing. > > * * * > > Update (1006ET): Due to the gravity of its claims, the NY Post's > Hunter Biden scoop has overshadowed the third day of ACB's > confirmation hearings to become the major political story of the day. > > So far, the MSM's most cogent objection is: 'if all of this is real, > then why wasn't it in the Senate report? And how long has Giuliani had > a copy of the hard drive?' > > Things that are sketchy in NYP story on Hunter Biden - why wasn’t > this in Ron Johnson report if it’s been in possession for awhile? When > did Giuliani acquire it? Giuliani has been everywhere on the but this > has been kicking around since late last year and unreleased till now? > — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 14, 2020 > > One respondent joked. > > And while the NY Post published numerous photos from the hard-drive > ranging from the banal to the bizarre, photos of Hunter Biden with a > crack/meth pipe in his mouth have gone viral on social media. > > What a legend pic.twitter.com/rlZcb2qZiz > — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 14, 2020 > > * * * > > Update (0900ET): The White House is celebrating the Wednesday morning > NY Post bombshell... > > 🚨🚨 BOMBSHELL 🚨 🚨 > > Hunter introduced Joe Biden to a top executive at the Ukrainian > energy firm he received $50K/month from! > > BIDEN: “I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone > else anything having to do with their businesses. Period.”@JoeBiden > LIED. PERIOD‼️ pic.twitter.com/zDy75fxauq > — Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) October 14, 2020 > > ...while the MSM is trying to make it all go away. > > The 'smoking gun' email in the NY Post story — even if it is > authentic, given the massive red flags — doesn't actually say what the > story says it does. > > Also, recall: https://t.co/qPVwoX4g1f > — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 14, 2020 > > That's hardly a surprise. > > * * * > > MSM organizations may have largely ignored findings from a Senate > Intel Committee report, released last month, which claimed that some > of Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine raised "counterintelligence > and extortion" concerns. On the day that report dropped, Rep Adam > Schiff brushed it aside, accusing his GOP colleagues in the Senate of > "promoting the same Russian disinformation", per the New York Post. > > Well, we'd be interested to hear what Schiff & Company have to say about > this. > > In a shocking report based on documents collected by the FBI - but > which haven't been previously disclosed in the press - the New York > Post reveals that Hunter Biden introduced his father - then the Vice > President of the United States - to a top executive at Burisma, the > shady Ukrainian energy firm where Biden once served as a board member. > > Emails contained in the report shed new light on Biden's claims that > he successfully forced former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to > fire a public prosecutor named Viktor Shokin. Biden bragged about > leveraging $1 billion in US aid to force Poroshenko to fire Shokin, > who was opposed by both the US and the EU. However, Shokin was > reportedly working on an investigation into the management and > executive board of Burisma, a group that included Hunter Biden, and > his former business partner Devon Archer, whose conviction on > securities fraud charges in the US was recently reinstated. > > The emails offer evidence that Hunter Biden did in fact introduce his > father to a top executive at Burisma less than a year before the vice > president moved to oust Shokin, thereby quashing an investigation into > the firm. The meeting is referenced in emails between Vadym > Pozharskyi, an advisor to the board of Burisma, who sent Biden an > email on April 17, 2015 thanking him for the introduction. > > Another email also shows Pozharskyi, believed to be the No. 3 exec at > Burisma, asking Biden about how the political scion could "use your > influence" to help Burisma. > > All of this would seem to undermine Biden's claim that he has "never > spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings", which also > included extensive dealings in China. > > Another email dated on May 12, 2014, shortly after Hunter joined the > board, shows Pozharskyi attempting to pressure Biden to use his > "political leverage" to help the company. The message included the > subject line "urgent issue" and also references an attempted > "shakedown" by Ukrainian prosecutors under Poroshenko. According to > Pozharskyi, prosecutors in the country had approached a man referred > to as "NZ", who was identified by the Post as Burisma founder Mykola > Zlochevsky, who went by the Americanized name "Nicholas". > > When "NZ" rebuffed their threats, they proceeded with "concrete > actions" including "one or more pretrial proceedings," Pozharskyi > wrote. > > “We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to > convey a message / signal, etc .to stop what we consider to be > politically motivated actions,” he added. > > The timing of the email is also notable: It was sent just as Burisma > was announcing Biden's decision to join the executive board. > > It's merely the latest piece of evidence suggesting that the company > brought Biden on to manage its "legal affairs" because it likely > believed his pull with the US would protect Burisma from these types > of prosecutorial "shakedowns". > > In addition to the emails, the drive contained photos, some of which > were shared with the Post. They spanned from family snaps of Hunter > with his father and his kids, to selfies of Biden smoking cigarettes > in a variety of unusual poses. > > According to the Post, the images and correspondence were taken from > the hard drive of a laptop that was dropped off at a repair shop in > Delaware, and never retrieved. After seeing what was on the hard > drive, the owner of the shop copied it, and turned it over to a lawyer > connected with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani reportedly > turned it over to the NY Post over the weekend. > > We imagine the MSM will cover up this report, as is standard practice > for any concerning information involving Hunter Biden's foreign > business dealings. > " >
