Facebook and Twitter are in an untenable position, ethically, politically and practically. When they do the wrong thing ethically, which is what they are doing by censoring the Hunter Biden materials, it comes back to haunt them politically. They come under legal fire, and it haunts them in economic terms. Censorship by them pushes the spreading of information into new channels, and these compete with these social media. Information gets out, in one way or another.
Rudy Giuliani has the Hunter Biden documents and he’s revealing the crimes of the Biden crime family. The link is to a 16-minute video by Giuliani in which he raises the curtain for more to follow.
Suppressed information rises in value, providing an incentive for people to sell it and for other people to find and publish it. Sometimes suppressed information haunts people who feel guilty, seek redemption, seek peace of mind and want to confess. Other times, people with a conscience simply cannot stand the lies or the wrongdoings, and they become whistleblowers. Sometimes, the stories that arise when the truth is suppressed are more damaging than the truth itself. The result is that the truth gets out.
Government dealings are dealings and communications among states, and it’s a property of such states to keep such everyday dealings secret. They have the means and methods to do this for decades, and the typical people in states support this basic attribute of all states. The reason is that tattling may bring short-term gains that are far outweighed by long-term losses. A state that leaks secret communications loses credibility as a trustworthy member of the club. A state cannot long remain a state if its diplomacy, often involving tricks, schemes, lies, shifts, pressures, etc. is immediately revealed.
But the suppression by a state of detailed information about its normal dealings needs to be distinguished from cases in which personal corruption and crimes are being committed by state officials and they seek to cover them up. States fiercely suppress a Snowden and an Assange and attempt to make it look like part of their natural suppression of information, but in doing so the states act unethically because their goal is to suppress information about their own crimes against the people.
The kinds of typical state processes to maintain secrets are definitely not what’s going on in the Hunter Biden case. It’s also not what’s going on with the Obamagate situation. In these cases, the issue is high-level crimes against the people, by abuse of the powers of the offices held, and against the country and the Constitution. That is why it is right for the dealings to be published and made widely-known. That is why suppression and censorship become the wrong thing to do, and why Facebook’s and Twitter’s leaders and policies place their companies in an untenable position.
8:40 am on October 16, 2020
