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All true and we believed it without all of the evidence that Musk is releasing. So what are the consequences? Tell us how justice will be served? Hard to get dead people back.

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ZERO CONSEQUENCES! If people continue to voice their legitimate protests, they will be harassed and even arrested by the FBI thugs. Yes, I am so frustrated, but my answer is based on the facts in the last 6+ years.

Look at the evil smiles on Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Bush, Clinton, Pence, Barr, Comey and Wray....., if you blame me for being too cynical and pessimistic.

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We've watched it unfold with increasing frequency since 2015, with no accountability whatsoever. The consequences of having the first real evidence of lying to congress can be financial and criminal penalties, but those are trivial when compared to the long-term effects of public exposure.

Not just the type of exposure that has convinced those of us doing "deep dives" and tracking it on a daily basis, but exposure that provides written verification that can overcome the sneering "conspiracy theory" dismissals used to inoculate the general public against using basic logic.

Normally, I'd hesitate to widen the scope of such an assertion as the one above, but I live among a large cohort of classical liberals that have succumbed to the intellectual Soma of an incrementalism that has obscured the fact that they are enabling totalitarian methodology, so I'll proceed.

They are beginning to awaken, becoming suspicious of the inconsistencies and doubting the necessity for endless boosters. It's taken quite a while for the adaptive learning imposed by dishonest messaging,to weaken sufficiently for most of these people to even pay lip service to the fact that there was no safety record to support The Narrative, but they are beginning to awaken to an awareness that there were SOME lies told to them by sources heretofore considered virtually unimpeachable.

The lies told by our corrupt public health regime were empirically crafted, which is to say that there is an inverted pyramid with a small number of false a priori assumptions preventing the entire edifice from collapsing. The twitter evidence verifiiably illustrates the dishonesty of one of those foundational priors.

To widen the scope a bit further, I will make the observation that the liberal (not "progressive'') cohort has a charitable willingness to forgive what they consider to be "noble" lies, which is a measure of how far they have fallen from their moral foundations. Over at least the last six decades that I've observed, one of the bedrock moral beliefs of liberalism has been that lying is forbidden.

If anyone doubts that, consider the reaction to Watergate.

The triumph of the behavioral modification program we're being subjected to, has been in severing people's awareness that shifts in state power are impermanent. One of the most common responses I've heard to revelation of cancellations has been "Good! I hate that persons message anyway." This, from people whose moral foundation is based on honesty, signals a degeneracy of which they are largely unaware.

When liberals were struggling to inform the general public of predatory and corrupt institutional and corporate practices, they sought exposure of lies and redress of the harm those lies were causing. We all despised the American Nazi Party, but grudgingly acknowledged that they had as much of a right to speak as everyone else has to ignore them and punish them for breaking any laws.

So let's consider the "Twitter as public square" analogy. The regressives are now demonizing Musk. Let them continue to so so, because nothing illustrates the enlightened self interest of a "there, but for the grace of God, go I" approach to free speech, than a perceived shift in the balance of power.

With enough evidence of bare-faced lies being told, a bit of common sense has at least a slim chance of entering the public discourse. First, Bhattacharya gets vindicated. Then, slowly but surely, the marginalization of Ioannidis will be revealed.

The killing of innocents by public health decree is ongoing. It will not be moderated until the body of evidence grows, and the Twitter revelations are an essential part of that growth.

I see your point about the unlikelihood of the Twitter revelations resulting in any substantial improvement, but no puzzle can be considered complete without all of the pieces, and the twitter material is one such piece.

We'll never get the dead people back, but we can impede the murderers' ability to increase the body count.

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Also, main stream media complicit too.

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I’m having a hard time picturing the government being held accountable. I assume accountability would target specific individuals?

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This is fascinating. How did you find the relevant cases?

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"shedding" is a word that got me in Twitmo once. I used passive exposure after that.

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So who is going to litigate and who will be the defendant? Civil or criminal court? You? Berenson? Class action?

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So, that being said, what happens next in the interest of justice being served?

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I agree with all this info! But struggling to see what will come of it since DOJ is corrupt to the core!

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“If social media act as de facto agents of the State, they FORFEIT ANY FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION.”

https://russellmadden.substack.com/p/forfeiting-rights

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Here’s my question:

Why doesn’t twitter delete violative accounts altogether?

Is it because they don’t own the content of someone’s account?

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They delete the Tweet archive. I had over 200,000 Tweets gone.

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Can you still see your account?

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I am allowed to browse and search things live time, so they might claim they aren't limiting my ability to read there. But all my Following, and lists and Moments are gone and I can't like, reTweet, reply or access the DM history except for a few of the last days.

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That's my point though. They didn't get rid of your account. It's all still there.

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My Twitter was banned in 2020 and archive of mostly research links for Rockefeller- Gates - Monsanto & Deep State crimes had over 457,000 tweets. No warning, no appeal just vanished from history like book burning of old.

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Excellent post with valuable legal reference and examples. Saved at Wayback for insurance ty!

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