The Summing Up

honestly I thought they’d manage a lot better. Given how many idiots there are in any organization I figured they could at least cherry pick some decent stuff. But it’s yoel roth saying remember what happened in 2016, we need to be cautious. Wow. He must feel pretty ashamed!

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

basically from start to finish the only person coming through any of this looking even half way decent in yoel roth

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

Hilarious seeing even a lot of wingnut saying, 

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

$44 billion to spend makes you a konstitooshinal skollar!

you comical freak, Biden wasn’t the government. This happened under Trump!

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2022

The press was asked not to show FDR’s wheelchair, and to look away from JFK’s philandering. Those weren’t violations of the First Amendment, either.

If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022

It isn’t, and you clearly don’t know what is.

Lots of things.

Presidential campaigns aren’t the government — and thus, just like Twitter, aren’t bound by the First Amendment. https://t.co/M0Ia36y42O

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 3, 2022

This is why we leave these matters to judges, and not the owners of social media platforms.

congress will investigate a private company’s editorial decisions to make sure that private companies’ editorial decisions aren’t being influenced by politics https://t.co/d1hb2oPmj8

— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) December 3, 2022

They’re upset that government didn’t intervene to tell Twitter what to do about the Hunter story. This is six lines of cocaine stupid. https://t.co/XMKU9iPHqd

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) December 3, 2022

Tucker Carlson guest admits the Twitter documents released by Elon Musk are “not really the smoking gun we'd hoped for”https://t.co/xrgmqlGV1O

— Media Matters (@mmfa) December 3, 2022

And of course, what was deleted?

I just deleted the first tweet in this thread because it accidentally contained revenge porn. It said:

That first tweet contained nude images of Hunter Biden and a woman without their consent... that should have stayed up? https://t.co/Id8c88F1gl pic.twitter.com/N6QsVmfmkU

— Micah Lee (@micahflee) December 3, 2022

Wow did not previously recognize what an essential role Hunter Biden’s peen plays in the operation of the marketplace of ideas

— Popehat (@Popehat) December 3, 2022

I think we’re done here.