I guess people are talking about the Hunter Biden laptop thing on the internet again because of :melon-musk:. That story about Hunter just leaving it at a computer repair shop seems kinda sus, doesn’t it? But I’m not super interested in pulling at that thread. Anyway, at the time I did hear reports of the story getting suppressed. Is that just because it was full of pics of the dude smoking crack with his dick out, or is there also something substantial and worth keeping in mind as history unfolds behind us?
I’m asking here because I don’t really want to go fishing around on the internet for Biden dick pics. That’s icky. Feel free to just post PPB or whatever here too, but I’m all ears if a kindly comrade feels like filling me in.
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The censorship was real. The NYpost was the only traditional media outlet (if you can call it that) who would publish the story.
I remember some saying that the laptop was stolen and therefore they couldn’t report on its contents. Most people at CNN and MSNBC said that it was obviously Russian misinformation engineered as an October surprise.
I believe Facebook was preventing people from sharing the NYpost article, I know Twitter was keeping people from sharing and retreating somethings.
It was kind of wild to see. Media institutions more or less formed a consensus that the laptop was not only unnewsworthy, but that if you wanted to talk about it you were a crank who wanted to undermine American Democracy.