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"Still trying to process my emotions on learning that @twitter blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion per

"Still trying to process my emotions on learning that @twitter blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt." https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1601037983779389440 https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/16010379837793894...

nathanaldensr 4y ago
Is this an answer to GP's question? If so, I'm having trouble figuring out what it is.
- philwelch 4y ago
  He was blacklisted due to his opposition to school closures and other intrusive NPI's during the pandemic.
lern_too_spel 4y ago
[flagged]
- ajvs 4y ago
  So instead it's better to stunt children's development with lockdowns and give them early heart attacks with jabs? Regardless of yours or my position however, this debate shouldn't have been censored in the first place.
  - lern_too_spel 4y ago
    People had pointed out how stupid his proposal was when he made it, and he ignored them completely. At that point, he was just a crank (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/jlockdowns/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/jlockdowns/). The debate was never censored: he was allowed to communicate with policy makers if he had any evidence to support his proposal. What was censored (or rather, not promoted to people who weren't his followers) was his wild rants to fellow Christian libertarians who believe the invisible hand of the free market is the gentle hand of the baby Jesus himself, which we should not shackle with regulations. Slowing some children's development (while drastically accelerating others' because they were tutored by their parents who had to stay at home with them) is not even on the same scale as mass deaths and people dying outside hospitals due to lack of capacity.
- smrtinsert 4y ago
  Let's not let numbers, humanity and sound judgement get in the way of a good conspiracy yarn.
- Markoff 4y ago
  [flagged]
amanaplanacanal 4y ago
I don’t know how other people think about this, but in my mind there is a large difference between censoring and not promoting, and the trends blacklist feels more like the latter.
- Izkata 4y ago
  IIRC the trending topics on Twitter are a mixture of automated and manually-selected. Not manually selecting him would be "not promoting", but putting him on a blacklist means he was prevented from naturally showing up - that's censoring.

nathanaldensr 4y ago

Is this an answer to GP's question? If so, I'm having trouble figuring out what it is.

philwelch 4y ago
He was blacklisted due to his opposition to school closures and other intrusive NPI's during the pandemic.

lern_too_spel 4y ago

[flagged]

ajvs 4y ago
So instead it's better to stunt children's development with lockdowns and give them early heart attacks with jabs? Regardless of yours or my position however, this debate shouldn't have been censored in the first place.
- lern_too_spel 4y ago
  People had pointed out how stupid his proposal was when he made it, and he ignored them completely. At that point, he was just a crank (https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/jlockdowns/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/jlockdowns/). The debate was never censored: he was allowed to communicate with policy makers if he had any evidence to support his proposal. What was censored (or rather, not promoted to people who weren't his followers) was his wild rants to fellow Christian libertarians who believe the invisible hand of the free market is the gentle hand of the baby Jesus himself, which we should not shackle with regulations. Slowing some children's development (while drastically accelerating others' because they were tutored by their parents who had to stay at home with them) is not even on the same scale as mass deaths and people dying outside hospitals due to lack of capacity.
smrtinsert 4y ago
Let's not let numbers, humanity and sound judgement get in the way of a good conspiracy yarn.
Markoff 4y ago
[flagged]

amanaplanacanal 4y ago

I don’t know how other people think about this, but in my mind there is a large difference between censoring and not promoting, and the trends blacklist feels more like the latter.

Izkata 4y ago
IIRC the trending topics on Twitter are a mixture of automated and manually-selected. Not manually selecting him would be "not promoting", but putting him on a blacklist means he was prevented from naturally showing up - that's censoring.