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There is no libertarian bent in the argument. I suspect a lot of the drive to censor comes out of extrapolations like this, where people are reading into factua
by ETH_start 2y ago
There is no libertarian bent in the argument. I suspect a lot of the drive to censor comes out of extrapolations like this, where people are reading into factual statements agendas that are not there.
In 2020, I had this chart showing the IFR for COVID (it's gone down since then due to widespread immunity from vaccination and natural infection) taken down by Facebook's "fact-checkers" because apparently providing the chart without context was "misleading":
Age Group | Low | Mean | High
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0-19 | 0.007% | 0.01% | 0.02%
20-29 | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.03%
30-39 | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.06%
40-49 | 0.08% | 0.1% | 0.1%
50-59 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.4%
60-69 | 0.7% | 0.9% | 1.1%
70-79 | 1.8% | 2.4% | 2.9%
80+ | 3.4% | 4.4% | 5.5%
-----------------------------
Total | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.6%
Same "I don't like the agenda I suspect this is intended to push" rationale behind the censorship.
- ajross 2y agoCounterargument: characterizing a comment literally asking a question of the commenter as a (ahem) "drive to censor" is even more of a "political extrapolation".
- ETH_start 2y agoI wasn't suggesting that the commenter was pushing to censor. Just that the same kinds of extrapolations are the motivation and given-justification for a lot of censorship. I do concede that it was an off tangent point.
- zdragnar 2y agoThe comment very much did not just ask a question. It specifically mentioned trying to find out what the argument is, and mentioned inferring a libertarian bent where none existed.
- ajross 2y ago> did not just ask a question. It specifically mentioned trying to find out what the argument is, Trying to think of a scenario were "asking a question" and "trying to find out what the argument is" are not synonyms...