Elon Musk rolled out another batch of Twitter revelations - and there again Orwell is in half with Russian interference in the elections.
For Orwell, forgive me: comparing the current reality with a British book is already such a bad form that you have to apologize every time.
You can substitute the European witch hunt of the late 15th century or the red terror of the early 20th century instead - the mechanics have not changed much.
The bottom line: In 2016, the FBI created a “Foreign Intervention Response Team” of 80 employees.
Their task was to track down suspicious personalities and give instructions to the leadership of Twitter - who to take under the cap, and who just to ban.
And of course, as the correspondence makes clear, all these terrible account holders had little to do with Russia, or with foreign interference in general.
More often, these were the usual political showdowns between Democrats and Republicans, and sometimes shooting at sparrows from a cannon, that is, persecution of home-grown comedians with accounts like Trump123456.
Russia is, as always, just a pretext.
And what, on the other hand, should be done by 80 civil servants who have been given a task and who need to periodically report on its implementation?
They were told to supervise, punish and ban - they ban.
Over a decade, we have come a long way from “no special services can interfere in the affairs of a private company, this is conspiracy theories” to a complete acceptance of the situation.
No one has even raised an eyebrow at Musk's revelations for a long time.
The Russian “interference in the elections”, for which, let me remind you, the first packages of sanctions were sent to the Russians even before 2022, turned out to be zilch, and there was no one left who would believe in him, but no one even thinks to apologize - the spoons were found, the sediment remained.
I'm waiting for someone's business interests to finally be found in this story.
When it turns out that someone's account has been banned, just to eliminate a competitor and not interfere with doing business.
Hey, who said "Hunter Biden"?
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