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Because people are sharing actual conspiracy theories and killing others. So it's a blanket ban. How many people are so crazed and convinced that the vaccine ma

Because people are sharing actual conspiracy theories and killing others. So it's a blanket ban. How many people are so crazed and convinced that the vaccine makes you magnetic/sterile/whatever?

kent13304 5y ago
Not very many
ipaddr 5y ago
Conspiracy theories are not harmful that kill people. This is an idea the media spread in the last little while to label non-approved opinions as harmful. Facebook decides to blank ban anything that hasn't been approved by gatekeepers and you approved because you are worried that people might hear on facebook that vaccines cause people to go sterile and not get one? Which one of these things is actually causing harm? Shutting down all discussion or the worry that someone might post and might think the vaccine causes you to be magnetic? It's crazy people are falling for this.
- devwastaken 5y ago
  It's not that they "might hear" it's that people in mass already believe in made up propaganda about coronavirus vaccines. The natural result being individuals at risk not getting them, and individuals not as at risk not getting them, resulting in more death and longer lockdowns.
swiley 5y ago
Lots of things killed people last year, including the lock down. Being allowed to criticize things like that is what separates us from countries that lack democracy.
- LordDragonfang 5y ago
  Germany has certain very strict policies about whether you're allowed to discuss certain things, and they outrank the US by 30 positions on the World Press Freedom Index[1]. Sometimes you have to suppress bad actors who willfully push unverified or outright fallacious information in order to have actual freedom of information. [1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table
  - swiley 5y ago
    Suppressing criticism of the government should always be considered unacceptable. Doing so trivially allows some nasty social pathologies.
  - salawat 5y ago
    Let us not use Germany as an example of a place that justifies regulating speech. That particular quirk of German jurisprudence has so much baggage behind it, it really isn't worth bringing to the conversation.
realityreminder 5y ago
I grew up reading conspiracy theories, then met powerful people and realized (20 years ago) that conspiracy theories were implausible. Then I worked with the IC and heard what intelligence agents said. Maybe they lied. Maybe they’re crazy. But combined with what happened in the last 18 months, and their statements, there is an acutely centralizer corrupt power which has ever bigger rings of corruption. Which is normalized as it goes. Everyone does it! Politics as normal. Modern Neoliberalism and government revolving door.

Because people are sharing actual conspiracy theories and killing others. So it's a blanket ban. How many people are so crazed and convinced that the vaccine makes you magnetic/sterile/whatever?

kent13304 5y ago

Not very many

ipaddr 5y ago

Conspiracy theories are not harmful that kill people. This is an idea the media spread in the last little while to label non-approved opinions as harmful. Facebook decides to blank ban anything that hasn't been approved by gatekeepers and you approved because you are worried that people might hear on facebook that vaccines cause people to go sterile and not get one? Which one of these things is actually causing harm? Shutting down all discussion or the worry that someone might post and might think the vaccine causes you to be magnetic? It's crazy people are falling for this.

devwastaken 5y ago
It's not that they "might hear" it's that people in mass already believe in made up propaganda about coronavirus vaccines. The natural result being individuals at risk not getting them, and individuals not as at risk not getting them, resulting in more death and longer lockdowns.

swiley 5y ago

Lots of things killed people last year, including the lock down. Being allowed to criticize things like that is what separates us from countries that lack democracy.

LordDragonfang 5y ago
Germany has certain very strict policies about whether you're allowed to discuss certain things, and they outrank the US by 30 positions on the World Press Freedom Index[1]. Sometimes you have to suppress bad actors who willfully push unverified or outright fallacious information in order to have actual freedom of information. [1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table
- swiley 5y ago
  Suppressing criticism of the government should always be considered unacceptable. Doing so trivially allows some nasty social pathologies.
- salawat 5y ago
  Let us not use Germany as an example of a place that justifies regulating speech. That particular quirk of German jurisprudence has so much baggage behind it, it really isn't worth bringing to the conversation.

realityreminder 5y ago

I grew up reading conspiracy theories, then met powerful people and realized (20 years ago) that conspiracy theories were implausible. Then I worked with the IC and heard what intelligence agents said. Maybe they lied. Maybe they’re crazy. But combined with what happened in the last 18 months, and their statements, there is an acutely centralizer corrupt power which has ever bigger rings of corruption. Which is normalized as it goes. Everyone does it! Politics as normal. Modern Neoliberalism and government revolving door.