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Sometimes shutting up is the best course of action. The number of current and former government officials who cant seem to learn that lesson never ceases to amaze me. Jeremy Konyndyk is one of those people.
Who is Konyndyk (you can have fun trying to guess the pronunciation)? Thats a good question because I hadnt heard of him either. But according to his bio, he was one of the shadowy advisors in the Biden administration that sought to shape public policy without fanfare, describing himself as the presidents COVID lead at USAID.
Konyndyk took to Twitter on Tuesday and inadvertently said the quiet part out loud about online censorship.
The background here is Twitter, at the behest of Elon Musk, released a trove of data on previously banned accounts due to supposed COVID misinformation. Further, the social media companys policy has been changed to stop the enforcement of those mechanisms.
(see Elon Musk Drops Data on Banned Accounts, Makes Massive Policy Change)
Lets game this out, shall we? Why would healthcare providers (namely big pharmaceutical companies) suddenly want to stop advertising on Twitter just because the social media company has canned its medical censorship policies? Could it be that those companies were benefiting economically from that censorship? The very same censorship that was occurring at the behest of collusion between the government and social media companies? Well, Ill be, who could have possibly guessed that racket existed?
The reality is that if these healthcare providers were selling something worthwhile, they wouldnt need censorship to make their case. They certainly wouldnt tuck tail and run away from Twitter just because people can speak freely about the vaccines now, including their lack of efficacy in stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Heck, youd think theyd be wanting to advertise more to help dominate the conversation.
Thats not how crony capitalism works, though. These major companies rely on the government kneecapping the competition, with in this case is the competition of ideas. They have no interest in operating on a level playing field, and when they cant, the moaning begins.
Then theres the last part of this, which is that those healthcare providers reward their government benefactors with lavish donations for giving them that advantage. The entire thing is a corrupt mess, and even though it was inadvertent, Konyndyk did a good job of admitting to it. Remember, these are the kinds of people actually running the federal government. Biden is just a skull full of mush who stumbles around from time to time. Hes not actually in charge of anything. Its his advisors that dictate public policy, and their respect for constitutional principles doesnt amount to a hill of beans.
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Internal Twitter deliberations surrounding the censorship of the New York Posts reporting on Hunter Bidens laptop from hell reveal the companys management engaging in willful ignorance of the facts of the story in order to justify censoring it on the platform.
Matt Taibbi, the journalist tasked by Elon Musk to reveal the internal communications, explains that Twitter management at the time used the companys hacked materials policy as an excuse to squelch the Posts reporting, but knew it wasnt going to hold. The reason it wasnt going to hold was because the Post explained that the reporting was based on a hard drive abandoned at a computer repair shop, not hacked material, and produced a federal subpoena given to the repair-shop owner to bolster the claim.
Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees (@Jack/Twitter)
Twitter Exec Vijaya Gadde (Fortune Brainstorm TECH/Flickr)
Former Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth messaged colleagueVijaya Gadde, The policy basis is hacked materials though, as discussed, this is an emerging situation where the facts remain unclear. Given the SEVERE risks here and lessons of 2016, were erring on the side of including a warning and preventing this content from being amplified.
Another member of management, Brandon Borrman, then asks, Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?
Jim Baker, Twitters then-Deputy Legal Counsel and former senior member of the FBI, adds, [We] need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked. At this stage, however, it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that conclusion is warranted.
Baker then admits, per the Posts reporting in the story in question, that there is evidence indicating that the computer was either abandoned and/or the owner consented to allow the repair shop to access it for at least some purposes.
But during the time this communication was underway, Twitter did not contact the New York Post to inquire about whether the reporting was based on hacked material, and the story in question explained exactly how the Post obtained the material it was reporting on.
In the story headlined, Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad, published on October 14, 2020, it says that the correspondence between Burisma board memberVadym Pozharskyi and Hunter was contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.
The Post published that it had the entire hard drive, which was originally obtained by a computer repair shop in Delaware.
The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Bidens home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the stores owner, the Post wrote in the initial story.
The customer who brought in the water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or retrieved it or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according to the shop owner, who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client.
The shop owner couldnt positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after Hunters late brother and former Delaware attorney general.
Photos of a Delaware federal subpoena given to The Post show that both the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI in December, after the shops owner says he alerted the feds to their existence.
But before turning over the gear, the shop owner says, he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giulianis lawyer, Robert Costello.
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.
The Post also published an image of a federal subpoena, showing the computer was in the FBIs possession, after being turned in by the computer repair shop owner, who has now been publicly identified as John Paul Mac Isaac.
Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her atejmorris@breitbart.comor follow heronTwitter.
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