No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter

[icymist]

While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, an insular community of MAGA activists and online contrarians led by the world’s richest man (for now) were getting riled up about a cache of leaked emails revealing that the former actor James Woods and Chinese troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos of Hunter Biden’s hog on a private company’s microblogging platform 25 months ago.

Now if you are one of the normals—someone who would never think about posting another person’s penis on your social media account; has no desire to see politicians’ kids’ penises when scrolling social media; doesn’t understand why there are other people out there who care one way or another about the moderation policies surrounding stolen penis photos; or can’t even figure out what it is that I’m talking about—then this might seem like a gratuitous matter for an article. Sadly, it is not.

Because among Republican members of Congress, leading conservative media commentators, contrarian substackers, conservative tech bros, and friends of Donald Trump, the ability to post Hunter Biden’s cock shots on Twitter is the number-one issue in America this weekend. They believe that if they are not allowed to post porno, our constitutional republic may be in jeopardy.

I truly, truly wish I were joking.

Here’s a synopsis for the blessedly uninitiated:

On Friday, Elon Musk promised to reveal “what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter.” It turns out that he had provided a trove of internal corporate documents to the Tulsi Gabbard of Substack, Matt Taibbi, who said they amounted to a “unique and explosive story”—revealing the juicy details inside Twitter’s decision to suppress the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, which had previously been rejected by such liberal outlets as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal due to its suspicious provenance. Taibbi agreed to divulge these private emails on Twitter itself rather than via his Substack as part of a “few conditions,” which he does not detail, that were imposed on him, presumably by Musk or a Musk factotum.

https://www.thebulwark.com/no-you-do-not-have-a-constitutional-right-to-post-hunter-bidens-dick-pic-on-twitter/

[duforsure]

1. I don't believe anything these people claim is from Hunter Biden,

And its all propaganda planted to use against Joe. Just another ploy to use to discredit opposition with.

[icymist]

2. The article did claim it came from a Chinese source.

Twice.

[duforsure]

3. Exactly,

They'll have many others claiming to have evidence too.

[icymist]

4. It'll be interesting to see what Act II will be.

M^sk says that will be today...

[duforsure]

5. Msk can never trusted for the truth,

And like tfg, will do and say anything for attention, and power, and promote fascism. He's a fraud.

[emulatorloo]

24. I wonder if there will even be a part two. In Hollywood if the first movie is a flop, the sequel

gets canceled.

Only thing Taibbi has posted is whining about people who point out how shoddy his ‘reporting’ was in Musk’s fake bombshell.

[emulatorloo]

32. Act 2 still hasn't happened. It was promised yesterday, and promised again today for noon eastern.

Still nothing. I wonder if there is some trouble in Taibbi/Musk/Trump paradise.

They ‘forgot’ to mention what Biden’s team requested the tweets that were nudes of Hunter. They ‘forgot’ to mention that those tweets violated Twitter’s TOS.

Taibbi wrote Trump asked to have tweets down and his requests were granted by twitter as well. But Taibbi won’t say what tweets Trump asked to take down.

It is so one sided and biased. Maybe they are having second thoughts. The MAGA’s want to shoot everyone. At this point it could be considered by some as incitement to violence.

[emulatorloo]

23. Yes see my post #16 below, has a link story on the Chinese billionaire's network that was posting

the pics.

[SunSeeker]

6. "the Tulsi Gabbard of Substack, Matt Taibbi"

[calimary]

10. I noticed that, too.

Tip-off.

[Blue Owl]

17. That was well-played!

[emulatorloo]

25. Emptywheel calls him #Mattydickpics and #SubstackSexPest

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217430948

[SunSeeker]

27. LOL

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. I'm glad to be on the side of collective sanity.

Kindergarten behavior from the KKKindergarten Party's very best.....

[calimary]

9. Indeed. Same here.

[jaxexpat]

8. Now wait a minute here.

The international media has, for years now, made its bread and butter by airing every toilet tissue stuck step of he who is arguably the biggest dick in history. You gonna arrest them too?

Oh...not what the OP is about?......sorry, never mind.

[ananda]

11. Crazy RWers are still in the lavatory stage...

and playing in their own poop.

Not a very attractive vote-getting activity,
except maybe for other creepy toddlers.

If only they didn't have guns....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Context:

Popehat Retweeted

In today’s quintessential ‘This is MAGA’ moment, James Woods is being lauded as a brave, patriotic hero because he is talking about suing the DNC because Twitter removed his post of a nude Hunter Biden pic. And they wonder why they continue to lose elections.

Link to tweet

[emulatorloo]

20. Lol. Wood's post got taken down by twitter because it violated twitter's TOS.

You can’t post other people’s nudes without their consent. He doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on.

[MiHale]

13. I'm surprised they can still open a door...

without a conspiracy theory that windows caused it all.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[SouthernDem4ever]

14. We need Ms Ballbricker to verify the photo's accuracy.

How ridiculous.

[Sancho]

15. Maybe I'm confused...if Hunter disputes that is his pecker on Twitter...

...then he's supposed to post the "Real Hunter Junk" so that everyone can dispute that it's not really him??

At some point, Twitter will become the new political porn site for the world, and Musk can make more money.

What were the founding fathers thinking when they did not anticipate this problem?

[niyad]

16. My first question would be, how did this scum acquire such pictures? And, how

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do we know that the attribution is correct?

And, last, WHO CARES?? Whether said dangly thing belongs to Hunter, or sorbo, some porn king, or some random person, how does this impact us?

[Blue Owl]

18. Oh I bet Tuckwad can't wait to get his hands on that photo....

He’s probably salivating….

[emulatorloo]

21. A Chinese Billionaire was posting these photos, my guess is he got them there. See this story:

Link to tweet

[niyad]

26. I have absolutely NO idea what any of that means.

[emulatorloo]

28. It means a Chinese Billionaire posted Hunter's homemade porn and dick pics on the internet.

Then some Maga twitter posters posted those dick pics on Twitter, which violates Twitter TOS about not posting other people’s nude pics with out their explicit consent.

It is also know as ‘revenge porn’ which is illegal in many states. That is also something that violates twitters TOS.

Dumb ass Taibbi thought he had a smoking gun that Biden was trying to “suppress” 1A, so he showed an internet Twitter memo about Biden asking twitter to remove those.

Taibbi listed the tweets, but was either too dumb to check that those tweets were Dick Pics out/or didn’t care because of his/Elon’s agenda to stir up the MAGAS by falsely claiming Biden people violated the first amendment.

Some smart twitter users plugged the links into the Internet Archive and found out the posts were Hunter’s dick pics.

They clearly violated twitter’s TOS, so twitter took them down. First amendment has absolutely nothing to do with twitter taking them down.

Taibbi has not bothered to correct his mistake.



Hope that helps, I am not the best writer today.

[Celerity]

29. Good summation

[niyad]

30. Thank you. That really was an excellent summation.

[emulatorloo]

31. You are too kind.

[underpants]

19. This is becoming its own cottage industry on Twitter this weekend

They’ve skipped over the actual root of the story and everyone (on the right) is fermenting their own angle or conspiracy about it.

[emulatorloo]

22. Taibbi/Musk "Twitter Files" is basically MAGA fantasy fiction. They'll fall for anything.

[jmowreader]

33. So that's what this is all about

So tell me, does Twitter allow the posting of dick pictures at all?

Let’s not discuss that this dick picture is of someone besides James Woods’ dick, and for all we know it might not be a picture of Hunter Biden’s dick either - Photoshop does exist - but seriously: isn’t posting pictures of dicks that weren’t elected to the presidency in 2016 a prima facie TOS violation?

[icymist]

34. Yup. Pretty much it.

We're still waiting for the idiots to post part 2!

[Skittles]

35. so now homophobic repukes want to see dick pics

ALRIGHTY THEN

[niyad]

36. you nearly owed me a keyboard.