Thursday, August 29, 2024

censorship: Yup it happened

 from AP/PBS Newshour:


In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg alleges that the officials, including those from the White House, “repeatedly pressured” Facebook for months to take down “certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire.”

OH NO: a MEME! Cancel him.

... “I believe the government pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg wrote in the letter dated Aug. 26 and posted on the committee’s Facebook page and to its account on X.

Heh. Zuckerburg uses Twitter/X.

Dr Campbell, who has been censored, discusses this issue:

Shame on medical journals like Lancet who censored stories on the lab leak theory by publishing an article written by the guy from ecohealth who actually funded the Wuhan gain of function research, and shame to the many journals who dissed possible treatments because they cited studies showing medicines didn't work that ignored the well known fact that anti virals have to be given early, but studies where these medicines were used early did show they worked.

 not to mention ignoring the population studies that suggested they worked (but weren't double blind studies so ignored).

and I won't even go into the censorship of open discussion about vaccine problems 



Sigh.

of course, it wasn't just covid that was censored.

a lot of this political censorship is being done by the various governments too... this was discovered when Elon Musk took over Twitter/X and had a couple of well known lefty but honest reporters check these things.

but the war against free speech continues:

France just arrested the guy behind Telegram because someone posted nasty stuff there and he refuses to give information of who they are, never mind that this practice is shielding human rights advocates from being arrested in a lot of third world countries.

For millions of people in Russia, Telegram’s encryption makes it the last remaining avenue to communicate securely and access information freely — governmental attempts to seize platform data must be rejected. Telegram is challenging the Russian government’s order to block and fine the messaging app for failing to provide information that would enable authorities to decode encrypted messages of six crime suspects. The company argues that, in effect, this means creating a backdoor mechanism for decoding all Telegram communications and threatening privacy and freedom of expression rights of all users. On June 10, 2022, Access Now, ARTICLE 19, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Privacy International, and Reporters Without Borders, filed a joint submission to the European Court of Human Rights.
“Journalists and activists in Ukraine and Russia are fighting to end this war. Platforms like Telegram are often their main source of communication, and they bear disproportionate risks if their identities and messages are revealed to Russian authorities,” said Natalia Krapiva, Tech Legal Counsel at Access Now.


censorship of free speech during the covid epidemic probably led to people dying, and in the long term is leading to a distrust of all vaccines and even routine medicines among the fringe.

but censorship of political discussion has broader implications:



That is why an anti vaxxer like RFK JR is influencing the next US election.

When it comes to political discussion, free speech (and this includes accuracy by the MSM) is important:


And this makes me worry:

the one who was bullying Facebook just got a job with Harris.

sigh
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