Twitter and Facebook Should Not Rig
the 2020 Presidential Election
By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
Big tech outlets Twitter and Facebook are “actively interfering in this election in a way that has no precedent in the history of our country.” So said Senator Ted Cruz of the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 15 after thousands of incriminating documents were released by the New York Post the previous day showing Joe Bidden knew a great deal about the corruption of his son Hunter with Burisma in Ukraine, despite his insistence that he didn’t. This looks to be the biggest case for influence peddling for money and election interference, in U.S. History.
This story was immediately blocked by both Twitter and Facebook. The New York Post, the fourth-largest newspaper in the nation, itself faced censorship of Its own story, when it attempted to cover the newly released documents “Never before have we seen active censorship of a major press publication, with serious allegations of corruption of one of the two candidates for president.” Senator Cruz had tried to share the story with others and was himself blocked by Twitter (Ted Cruz EXPLODES On Big Tech Censorship, C-Span Senate Judiciary Committee, October 15, 2020).
The same paper broke a second Biden scandal story in China the next day revealing “the Biden family receiving millions of dollars from Communist China government officials.” Neither of these stories is new. But the thousands of documents suggesting influence peddling and the amount of money, millions, coming to the Biden family with it, including to “the big guy,” Joe, is new, powerful, damning and can’t be ignored outside censorship. The Hunter Biden trove of laptop documents also implicates Hunter’s Uncle James Biden and James’ wife, Sara Biden (“Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm,” by Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, October 15, 2020. View also New York Post first story “Biden Secret E-Mails”, October 14, 2020).
Two emails that popped up early, of the estimated 40,000 emails, were particularly interesting. One with Chinese billionaire Ye Jianming, chairman of the CEFC China Energy Co., China’s largest private energy company, during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. In it, Hunter demanded “a $10 million annual fee” for three consecutive years for “introductions alone” to his father Joe Biden.
A second email entitled “Expectations” sent to Hunter in a proposed related business venture divided the resultant equity profit into six “remuneration packages.” Strangely only first names were identified and recipients only by initials. Of the six recipients, Hunter was to receive 20% and another 10% was to be held by Hunter for “the big guy,” presumably his father Joe Biden (Ibid.).
When pieces of the story began to emerge last year, Joe Biden denied any wrongdoing and that he knew of any of the business dealings of his son Hunter. The documents from Hunter’s own laptop show otherwise. Democratic Party news outlets never ask him about this, then or now—and never will. Since the avalanche of documents went public on October 14, Joe’s only comment is that it is a smear. Otherwise, he refuses any question on it and has canceled all public appearances until after the coming debate, October 22. Unless Donald Trump can find a way to bring it up, it will be censored by Democrats then as well.
Biden’s defenders first attacked the repair shop owner, then disinformation, then the discredited Russian collision—again, and now Rudy Giuliani—each failing in turn. They do not deny any specific allegation, nor that the documents are not real, nor that they didn’t come from Hunter’s own laptop. With thousands of text messages and emails, they know they can’t. So they have resorted to censorship.
Thus the rush by the Democratic Party billionaire CEO’s Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook to censor the story away so Americans cannot see the blatant evidence—at least not before November 3rd. Presumably, if Joe Biden is elected president this all goes away.
Hunter Biden never returned for his laptop. Eventually, in December 2019, the repair shop turned it over to the FBI which admits having it in their possession. It, with all the incriminating evidence, exists! Why they sat on it for most of a year has yet to be explained,
As a result of what appears to be both a contribution in kind and election interference by Twitter and Facebook, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, is calling for billionaire CEO’s Jack Dorsey, of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook, to testify before his committee October 23, The accusation “contribution in kind” is because no amount of money contributed can equal the power dealt the opposing side by the censorship of the probable coverup of allegations of corruption.
Chairman Graham explained, “These social media platforms have dominance in our lives: their newspapers, their TV stations, their radio stations, their publishers. And this to me crystallizes the problem better than anything I could think of for the American people. You may be a Democrat, saying I don’t want to hear the New York Post,[but] it could be you tomorrow.” Adding, “So the point is that the power behind these platforms have been taken to a level that truly is dangerous” (Ted Cruz EXPLODES On Big Tech Censorship).
He could have added, “They are the public square. Without them, the opposition has no access to the public square. Thus there exists no freedom of the press.” Freedom of speech is denied soon thereafter.
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Funny, same issue was part of the House of Cards TV season plot where Kevin Spacy runs for reelection. As with Illinois/ FB $550M drop in the bucket facial recognition w/o permission settlement, these media platforms are too powerful. Either make them public domain or designate them as publishers. More than anything we need campaign finance reform. Catch 22 rules the land as politicians feed at the trough and will do nothing to fix the system. At least Jack Dorsey kind of apologized. Facebook on the other hand wants to create a digital exchange/currency using their platform. Great article Mr. Pease.
The Hunter Biden Files.
This new conspiracy theory is brought to you by the lawyer with the highest level of integrity in Washington, DC, The Honorable Rudi Giuliani.
A coincidence? Remember back to just a few weeks before the presidential election of 2016. The FBI released a memo about the supposed illegal emails on Hillary Clinton’s computer. Despite investigations, nothing ever came of that expose, except for the fact that Mrs. Clinton lost the election.
Jump ahead four years, and here we are with another presidential election coming up in two short weeks; suddenly some alleged Hunter Biden emails are released to the police in Delaware and to the FBI.
According to the story reported in the New York Post a laptop computer and other items were left in a Delaware computer repair shop in spring 2019, presumably to be repaired from water damage. The owner, who claims to be legally blind, claims he wasn’t sure who owned the computer and that it was apparently never claimed. He found a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation on it. He then decided to access the hard drive and found incriminating material about Mr. Hunter Biden’s time in the Ukraine. Now a year and a half later he turns the hard drive over to an associate of Rudi Giuliani. I submit this is a really great opening for a fictional spy novel.
As the story is progressing, the hard drive allegedly shows evidence of Biden corruption, suggesting quid pro quo payments by Ukrainian officials to Hunter Biden to allow them access to his father, Joe Biden, who, incidentally, has not been in any official position for four years.
More evidence has been put forth to indicate some sort of danger to underage children by Hunter Biden.
So, to recap. Water damaged laptop, perhaps from an accident by one of those endangered underage children? This computer contains very incriminating information, but Hunter Biden just simply drops it off at a repair shop and doesn’t bother to reclaim it. There is also apparently no password on this computer having this incriminating evidence.
A year and a half later the owner decides its time to break into the hard drive. He discovers all this incriminating stuff and as a staunch republican and a good upstanding citizen realizes he needs to turn it all over to Rudi Giuliani. Mr. Giuliani realizes the incriminating nature of this treasure trove of emails and shops around for some newspaper to reveal all. The only taker is the New York Post, and even some of their reporters do not want to be involved with it. The FBI also apparently has copies of this hard drive but has not offered any detailed on the contents or origin.
Also, of note, Mr. Giuliani has just listed the Brooklyn Bridge for sale on his Facebook site.
Gee Rick you must be a Democrat. Article is about censorship but for you it appears to be the Hunter Biden story. I am partisan. Not voting except for local stuff. Ok don’t want Warburton’s editor to censor me. One word. ……….BULL-HOCKEY…. Even our beloved liberal contributor Ed K. would not defend this guy. See what Jimmy Dore and the far left have to say. Some of the outrageous accusations are likely phony, no doubt, but the gist of it is pure corruption at the highest level of government. On that note, MR. SHILL FOR HUNTER BIDEN , the scandal will have little impact on the election outcome. Rest assured he will get away with pay to play scandal as there is a 2 tier justice system currently operating in this plutocracy disguised as a pseudo-Federalist quasi democratic system. The Democrats would defend Charlie Manson if they thought it would help win the election.