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Threads 'temporarily' blocks Covid search terms to focus on larger concerns

emsixteen 3y ago
I'm without words. This screams irresponsibility - "No, user, you're not allowed to search for this because we're reallocating moderation resources".
- 20after4 3y ago
  Facebook/Meta isn't exactly known for responsible moderation practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M
voidr 3y ago
Dystopian centralised internet at its worst. Meanwhile on Apple News I can ready that according to the Independent: Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs? Russia should be dissolved by now because according to western media: Ukraine wins all the time. I don't think having central entities moderate the world solves anything, they can more easily be coerced by a government or people with a lot of power, I would just let people believe what they want to believe. The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe.
- gumballindie 3y ago
  > The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe. That’s still an option. Twitter and facebook arent the only social networks you know.
  - voidr 3y ago
    Issue is that a lot of the good sources solely use controlled platforms like YouTube where you can't even use words like "suicide", which normalises this nonsense, I understand that not everyone wants to watch a video about "rape", "suicide", weapons and murder, however what is happening today is ridiculous. The other issue is that these big platforms are all American which means they will enforce American sensibilities like having it okay to show incredibly scantily clothed people where not much is left to the imagination, but going crazy if a nipple is shown.
    - 20after4 3y ago
      Don't you know the nipple is the root of all evil.
  - lakomen 3y ago
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  - huhuli 3y ago
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- ben_w 3y ago
  > Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs? While I, too, disapprove of the adjective treadmill that uses ever greater superlatives for increasingly minor things: war is usually a hard grind, one needs very specific breakthroughs to make a noticeable difference to the map when front-line is so wide.
halfjoking 3y ago
#plasmidgate really has the Covid censors doing damage control. I’m sure Facebook is receiving thousands of censorship requests daily from gov. The gist of the scandal is that yes, it was gene therapy: https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-skin-a-genetically-modified https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-skin-a-genetically...
- airza 3y ago
  This article really seems like a hot mess. I am looking for the thread of a coherent argument through it and it just looks like someone was trying to simply pull together as many authoritative-looking diagrams and paper abstracts as possible to make their point.
  - hanselot 3y ago
    When I read comments like this I have to go back and ask myself, is there even any amount of proof that would actually compel a single person to change their mind anymore? We have reached a level of outright cultural denial that, were Fauci to give a speech on every television on the planet admitting to this, still not a single person that took the shots would believe it was true. How anyone even had the slightest level of respect for a man who did what Fauci did during the 80's is beyond me, and I can't understand how any gay man today could possibly believe a word coming out of their mouth. In any case, who cares, the bed is made, we have to lay in it. None of us have the energy left to try and convince people when the majority of the planet's people have been weaponised against us. We are insane, schizo, fake news peddlers that just want to convince people to kill themselves by injecting horse paste into their lungs. Are you fucking kidding me. Fuck this world.
    - Tarq0n 3y ago
      Fauci is just a figurehead and the vaccines were developed privately. Don't confuse celebrity politicians and bureaucrats being involved with the actual issue at hand.
    - andrenth 3y ago
squigz 3y ago
What in god's name are these comments in this thread...
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  Par for the course
- lithos 3y ago
  Hackernews being mainstream.
- bsbdbkeks66554 3y ago
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Simulacra 3y ago
I guess that's another reason not to use threads
lakomen 3y ago
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huhuli 3y ago
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- pcdoodle 3y ago
  This will get censored... "We don't like abrasive hacker types round here."
shipscode 3y ago
Is Big Tech ever going to let people talk freely about COVID?
bumbledraven 3y ago
https://archive.ph/XJsmD https://archive.ph/XJsmD

I'm without words. This screams irresponsibility - "No, user, you're not allowed to search for this because we're reallocating moderation resources".

20after4 3y ago
Facebook/Meta isn't exactly known for responsible moderation practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8B0bWO9u3M

voidr 3y ago

Dystopian centralised internet at its worst. Meanwhile on Apple News I can ready that according to the Independent: Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs? Russia should be dissolved by now because according to western media: Ukraine wins all the time. I don't think having central entities moderate the world solves anything, they can more easily be coerced by a government or people with a lot of power, I would just let people believe what they want to believe. The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe.

gumballindie 3y ago
> The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe. That’s still an option. Twitter and facebook arent the only social networks you know.
- voidr 3y ago
  Issue is that a lot of the good sources solely use controlled platforms like YouTube where you can't even use words like "suicide", which normalises this nonsense, I understand that not everyone wants to watch a video about "rape", "suicide", weapons and murder, however what is happening today is ridiculous. The other issue is that these big platforms are all American which means they will enforce American sensibilities like having it okay to show incredibly scantily clothed people where not much is left to the imagination, but going crazy if a nipple is shown.
  - 20after4 3y ago
    Don't you know the nipple is the root of all evil.
- lakomen 3y ago
  [flagged]
- huhuli 3y ago
  [flagged]
ben_w 3y ago
> Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs? While I, too, disapprove of the adjective treadmill that uses ever greater superlatives for increasingly minor things: war is usually a hard grind, one needs very specific breakthroughs to make a noticeable difference to the map when front-line is so wide.

halfjoking 3y ago

#plasmidgate really has the Covid censors doing damage control. I’m sure Facebook is receiving thousands of censorship requests daily from gov. The gist of the scandal is that yes, it was gene therapy: https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-skin-a-genetically-modified https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-skin-a-genetically...

airza 3y ago
This article really seems like a hot mess. I am looking for the thread of a coherent argument through it and it just looks like someone was trying to simply pull together as many authoritative-looking diagrams and paper abstracts as possible to make their point.
- hanselot 3y ago
  When I read comments like this I have to go back and ask myself, is there even any amount of proof that would actually compel a single person to change their mind anymore? We have reached a level of outright cultural denial that, were Fauci to give a speech on every television on the planet admitting to this, still not a single person that took the shots would believe it was true. How anyone even had the slightest level of respect for a man who did what Fauci did during the 80's is beyond me, and I can't understand how any gay man today could possibly believe a word coming out of their mouth. In any case, who cares, the bed is made, we have to lay in it. None of us have the energy left to try and convince people when the majority of the planet's people have been weaponised against us. We are insane, schizo, fake news peddlers that just want to convince people to kill themselves by injecting horse paste into their lungs. Are you fucking kidding me. Fuck this world.
  - Tarq0n 3y ago
    Fauci is just a figurehead and the vaccines were developed privately. Don't confuse celebrity politicians and bureaucrats being involved with the actual issue at hand.
  - andrenth 3y ago

squigz 3y ago

What in god's name are these comments in this thread...

inferiorhuman 3y ago
Par for the course
lithos 3y ago
Hackernews being mainstream.
bsbdbkeks66554 3y ago
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Simulacra 3y ago

I guess that's another reason not to use threads

lakomen 3y ago

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huhuli 3y ago

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pcdoodle 3y ago
This will get censored... "We don't like abrasive hacker types round here."

shipscode 3y ago

Is Big Tech ever going to let people talk freely about COVID?

bumbledraven 3y ago

https://archive.ph/XJsmD https://archive.ph/XJsmD