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And therefore a priori wrong and deserving of government censorship, in your opinion?

by AndrewBissell 5y ago

allears 5y ago
Exactly.
- AndrewBissell 5y ago
  You people have lost your minds. Masks don't work (which is what every RCT concluded before Covid started), the vaccines are a poor risk proposition for huge segments of the population they're being administered to, and Covid is a virus on par with the 1968 influenza season whose threat is being vastly overstated to cajole the public into agreeing to things like banning assembly and protest.
  - s5fs 5y ago
    And just like that, you owe Australia $11k.
    - AndrewBissell 5y ago
      Seems so far the fines are just proposed for people posting about "illegal" rallies (lol), so we're maybe still two or three months out from just criminalizing questioning of the Covid dogma as such.
  - gwerbret 5y ago
    > You people have lost your minds...the vaccines are a poor risk proposition for huge segments of the population they're being administered to, and Covid is a virus on par with the 1968 influenza season whose threat is being vastly overstated It's always interesting to see how people spin narratives to fit their own biases and preconceived notions, as exemplified by the criticism of vaccines in this context. If the general public was more likely to be thoughtful and considerate, rather than bombastic and dismissive, there would (probably) be fewer such news stories about restricting the spread of misinformation.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  Which would also mean censoring the CDC a year and a half ago. So, yeah. Let's not have governments deciding "truth" and censoring everything else, because governments can be wrong. Even with the best of intent, governments can be wrong. But if they're wrong and they censor what is right, they're going to have a hard time learning that they're wrong. Worse, if they do learn that they're wrong, they have bureaucratic inertia built up. They're likely to keep censoring the truth for a while after they know it's true, because changing would mean that some bureaucrats have to eat crow. Even worse, we have plenty of examples of censorship that is not "with the best of intent". It's to preserve the existing power structure. Let's not create the temptation to use our own governments in that way. Yes, Covid misinformation is a huge problem. No, government censorship is not the answer.

And therefore a priori wrong and deserving of government censorship, in your opinion?

allears 5y ago

Exactly.

AndrewBissell 5y ago
You people have lost your minds. Masks don't work (which is what every RCT concluded before Covid started), the vaccines are a poor risk proposition for huge segments of the population they're being administered to, and Covid is a virus on par with the 1968 influenza season whose threat is being vastly overstated to cajole the public into agreeing to things like banning assembly and protest.
- s5fs 5y ago
  And just like that, you owe Australia $11k.
  - AndrewBissell 5y ago
    Seems so far the fines are just proposed for people posting about "illegal" rallies (lol), so we're maybe still two or three months out from just criminalizing questioning of the Covid dogma as such.
- gwerbret 5y ago
  > You people have lost your minds...the vaccines are a poor risk proposition for huge segments of the population they're being administered to, and Covid is a virus on par with the 1968 influenza season whose threat is being vastly overstated It's always interesting to see how people spin narratives to fit their own biases and preconceived notions, as exemplified by the criticism of vaccines in this context. If the general public was more likely to be thoughtful and considerate, rather than bombastic and dismissive, there would (probably) be fewer such news stories about restricting the spread of misinformation.
AnimalMuppet 5y ago
Which would also mean censoring the CDC a year and a half ago. So, yeah. Let's not have governments deciding "truth" and censoring everything else, because governments can be wrong. Even with the best of intent, governments can be wrong. But if they're wrong and they censor what is right, they're going to have a hard time learning that they're wrong. Worse, if they do learn that they're wrong, they have bureaucratic inertia built up. They're likely to keep censoring the truth for a while after they know it's true, because changing would mean that some bureaucrats have to eat crow. Even worse, we have plenty of examples of censorship that is not "with the best of intent". It's to preserve the existing power structure. Let's not create the temptation to use our own governments in that way. Yes, Covid misinformation is a huge problem. No, government censorship is not the answer.