“Don’t Throw Me In That Briar Patch, Br’er Twitter”

SO USA TODAY DIDN’T WANT TO RUN MY HUNTER BIDEN COLUMN THIS WEEK. My regular editor is on vacation, and I guess everyone else was afraid to touch it. — Glenn Reynolds

I wasn’t advising them — they tend not to ask me for my opinion — but I would have advised against such a blackout. There’s a longstanding Internet term called “the Streisand effect,” going back to when Barbara Streisand demanded that people stop sharing pictures of her beach house. Unsurprisingly, the result was a massive increase in the number of people posting pictures of her beach house. The Big Tech Blackout produced the same result: Now even people who didn’t care so much about Hunter Biden’s racket nonetheless became angry, and started talking about the story.

On the other hand, with friends like these

2 Replies to ““Don’t Throw Me In That Briar Patch, Br’er Twitter””

  1. Now even people who didn’t care so much about Hunter Biden’s racket nonetheless became angry, and started talking about the story.

    It’s almost like Twitter and Facebook can’t control information on the 99.9999% of the Internet that isn’t Facebook and Twitter.

    SO USA TODAY DIDN’T WANT TO RUN MY HUNTER BIDEN COLUMN THIS WEEK.

    Clearly Big Newspaper enjoys an illegal monopoly and is suppressing freedom of speech and we should immediately throw out the First Amendment.

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