But it wasn't hacked, he brought the laptop in for data recovery and never returned. After a period of time, that property becomes the property of the shop. The laptop was also seized by the FBI.
Which is why they shut down the NY Times for posting trumps tax information. ... and why, after hunter biden, they shut down ProPublica after they obtained the detailed tax records of all Americans and started publishing documents from a multitude of wealthy people, none of which (thus far) have exposed any crimes, and little of which could be argued to be a matter of public interest... oh wait they didn't.
In these examples not only was the material hacked, its further disclosure is a crime. By comparison, the disclosure of the hunter biden material was completely lawful, as far as we're able to tell right now. The material was also easily verified to be legitimate, at least in part-- since the google DKIM on the messages passed. You won't find pretty much any other hacked material reporting that twitter allowed to spread that could be cryptographic authenticated.
It's why twitter shut down accounts sharing the dump of Epik (right wing wingnut friendly domain registrar), or personal information extracted from it... oh wait, they didn't (well they didn't shut down a few accounts calling for violence against people in it, just not one merely propagating the hacked information).
It's why they shut down Suddeutsche Zeitung when they published their reporting on the Panama Papers... oh right, yet again. They didn't.
I could keep going, -- there is a lot of journalism that comes from hacked documents.
Can you give a single prior example of high profile reporting on hacked materials where twitter suppressed the media outlet and discussion of the subject? -- I'm earnestly interested.
Hunters laptop was NOT hacked; it was abandoned at a repair shop which after 30 days became the property of the owner of the shop. BTW this is NOT uncommon. Not just for comptuer repair shops but storage units, auto mechanics, etc.
You can't hack something you own. The whole "hack" thing is such a stupid narrative yet people cling to it - probably because there is no other defense for what was on the laptop.
My point was that even if you accept that clearly false premise, the claim is still bogus: the media and members of the general public routinely share actual hacked information (as well as other material which is unlawful to distribute, such as people's tax returns) via twitter's platform without much fear of account suspension over it and did both before and after the hunter biden laptop incident.
