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There is no "fundamental tenet" of being candid To remove false information is not a failure to be candid We have always removed false information A private

There is no "fundamental tenet" of being candid To remove false information is not a failure to be candid We have always removed false information A private company removing content is not censorship Public health has always been in favor of removing false information The perception is being reinforced by false moral equivalences and false claims about the past There is no downside to removing structured false information being presented by a foreign power Your hand-wringing doesn't make sense

flybrand 5y ago
I disagree with every point you make - but I will never endorse a system that censors your ability to write this. Logically many of your points that use ‘always’ are highly unlikely to be true, because we’d only need find one case to prove the statement false.
codeecan 5y ago
You premise that they remove only false information is wrong, "vaccine producers are immune from liability", is not false but is anti-vaccine ... its taken down. When reports about problems with AstraZeneca were coming out, those were tagged as misinformation, today most countries no longer give out AZ vaccine. Theyre suppressing truthful info, why should you trust anything they say?
- judahmeek 5y ago
  According to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina..., AZ is being used all over the place.
  - codeecan 5y ago
    your link shows where it was approved, those aren't usage numbers, > ... there should be a preference for an alternative to the AstraZeneca [1] > Canada’s largest province says it will stop giving out first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine due to concerns over its link to rare blood clots [2] > More nations halt use of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine citing clots [3] [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-jcvi-statement-7-may-2021/use-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-azd1222-vaccine-updated-jcvi-statement-7-may-2021 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-the-astraz... [2] https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadas-largest-provinces-halts-astrazeneca-doses-77629651 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadas-large... [3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-nations-halt-use-of-astrazenecas-covid-vaccine-citing-clots/ar-BB1ewMqr https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-nations-halt-use-o...
    - judahmeek 5y ago
      > your link shows where it was approved, those aren't usage numbers. False. Here's the note on the image showing vaccine usage: "Note: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is known as Covishield in India. Only countries that report doses administered are shown. Other countries may have approved vaccines but have not administered them yet."

flybrand 5y ago

I disagree with every point you make - but I will never endorse a system that censors your ability to write this. Logically many of your points that use ‘always’ are highly unlikely to be true, because we’d only need find one case to prove the statement false.

codeecan 5y ago

You premise that they remove only false information is wrong, "vaccine producers are immune from liability", is not false but is anti-vaccine ... its taken down. When reports about problems with AstraZeneca were coming out, those were tagged as misinformation, today most countries no longer give out AZ vaccine. Theyre suppressing truthful info, why should you trust anything they say?

judahmeek 5y ago
According to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina..., AZ is being used all over the place.
- codeecan 5y ago
  your link shows where it was approved, those aren't usage numbers, > ... there should be a preference for an alternative to the AstraZeneca [1] > Canada’s largest province says it will stop giving out first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine due to concerns over its link to rare blood clots [2] > More nations halt use of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine citing clots [3] [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-jcvi-statement-7-may-2021/use-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-azd1222-vaccine-updated-jcvi-statement-7-may-2021 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-the-astraz... [2] https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadas-largest-provinces-halts-astrazeneca-doses-77629651 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadas-large... [3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-nations-halt-use-of-astrazenecas-covid-vaccine-citing-clots/ar-BB1ewMqr https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-nations-halt-use-o...
  - judahmeek 5y ago
    > your link shows where it was approved, those aren't usage numbers. False. Here's the note on the image showing vaccine usage: "Note: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is known as Covishield in India. Only countries that report doses administered are shown. Other countries may have approved vaccines but have not administered them yet."