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No, they were blocking links to the news story from the NY Post, including users from sending private messages... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798

No, they were blocking links to the news story from the NY Post, including users from sending private messages... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780798 >In April 2021, White House advisers met with Twitter content moderators. The moderators believed the meeting had gone well, but noted in a private Slack discussion that they had fielded "one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn't been kicked off from the platform." https://reason.com/2023/01/19/how-the-cdc-became-the-speech-police/ https://reason.com/2023/01/19/how-the-cdc-became-the-speech-... Edit: URL was malformed due to copy paste error...

UmGuys 1y ago
I have no idea what you're referencing honestly. Private companies can make whatever business decisions they want. You second link is 404 and I have no idea what you're talking about. The subject is what used to be the United States. A concept that no longer exists because we're too shitty.
- themaninthedark 1y ago
  Thanks, URL was messed up due to copy paste error.
UmGuys 1y ago
I googled Alex as I didn't know who that was. The government has an interest in public health. 1.2 million Americans (likely many more) died as a result of covid. There were refrigerator trucks filled with bodies in places. It was hell. People who spread misinformation literally kill people and themselves. It seems like the government back then actually worked with companies to craft guidance rather than threatening their licenses, suing, etc. There's no comparison at all to the current time. America was founded to rid ourselves of royalty and the first amendment is proof of that. Now America is gone.
- themaninthedark 1y ago
  You don't have to tell me it was hell, I was there. People, the government and scientists were all spreading misinformation depending on what the official messaging was at the time. Case in point: Early on, the government was saying "Masks are not effective at stopping COVID-19" due to them wanting to control supply. When that happened, there was a large number of studies that came out showing just that. When you looked at the methodology, it was "Mask over mouth, cough into Petri dish" and see if any COVID was detectable in dish. Also "Virus particle size is much smaller than openings on mask" When the government changed it's stance, all of those were retracted. It took the WHO 2 YEARS to change their stance and say that COVID-19 was airborne: >In the spring of 2020, as covid-19 took hold, confusion reigned among scientists, doctors, public health experts, and others. Many insisted the spread of the new virus was through the air, yet the World Health Organization refused to use the terms “airborne” or “aerosol”1 in the context of covid-19 until 2021.2 This had repercussions as the world debated mask wearing (and what types of masks were suitable) and whether indoor spaces were a factor in infection. >Now, four years later and after two years of deliberation by experts,3 WHO has altered its definition of the “airborne” spread of infectious pathogens in the hope of avoiding the confusion and miscommunication that characterised the first year of the pandemic—and threatened attempts to control the virus’s spread. https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q985 https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280304
  - UmGuys 1y ago
    I don't get what your point is. We agree covid is bad and difficult for people to deal with.
    - themaninthedark 1y ago
      There are several top level comments here acting like this is the first time the government has done something like this. It's not. The previous administration was doing the same thing; Publicly saying that they wanted to change laws, that these companies were killing people etc. At the same time, they were also asking the companies to remove people for their speech. The threat was implicit. I don't like that the current republican administration is doing it now, I didn't like it when the previous democrat administration was doing it then. The only way to keep it from happening is for everyone to speak up, for that to happen you also need to recognize when your team is doing the same thing and call them out. Look at the comments saying "I bet we won't hear from the freeze peach crowd", of course you won't see them. Not because they don't care however but because their disagreement of the government action is getting lost in the noise of your crowds.

UmGuys 1y ago

I have no idea what you're referencing honestly. Private companies can make whatever business decisions they want. You second link is 404 and I have no idea what you're talking about. The subject is what used to be the United States. A concept that no longer exists because we're too shitty.

themaninthedark 1y ago
Thanks, URL was messed up due to copy paste error.

UmGuys 1y ago

I googled Alex as I didn't know who that was. The government has an interest in public health. 1.2 million Americans (likely many more) died as a result of covid. There were refrigerator trucks filled with bodies in places. It was hell. People who spread misinformation literally kill people and themselves. It seems like the government back then actually worked with companies to craft guidance rather than threatening their licenses, suing, etc. There's no comparison at all to the current time. America was founded to rid ourselves of royalty and the first amendment is proof of that. Now America is gone.

themaninthedark 1y ago
You don't have to tell me it was hell, I was there. People, the government and scientists were all spreading misinformation depending on what the official messaging was at the time. Case in point: Early on, the government was saying "Masks are not effective at stopping COVID-19" due to them wanting to control supply. When that happened, there was a large number of studies that came out showing just that. When you looked at the methodology, it was "Mask over mouth, cough into Petri dish" and see if any COVID was detectable in dish. Also "Virus particle size is much smaller than openings on mask" When the government changed it's stance, all of those were retracted. It took the WHO 2 YEARS to change their stance and say that COVID-19 was airborne: >In the spring of 2020, as covid-19 took hold, confusion reigned among scientists, doctors, public health experts, and others. Many insisted the spread of the new virus was through the air, yet the World Health Organization refused to use the terms “airborne” or “aerosol”1 in the context of covid-19 until 2021.2 This had repercussions as the world debated mask wearing (and what types of masks were suitable) and whether indoor spaces were a factor in infection. >Now, four years later and after two years of deliberation by experts,3 WHO has altered its definition of the “airborne” spread of infectious pathogens in the hope of avoiding the confusion and miscommunication that characterised the first year of the pandemic—and threatened attempts to control the virus’s spread. https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q985 https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280304
- UmGuys 1y ago
  I don't get what your point is. We agree covid is bad and difficult for people to deal with.
  - themaninthedark 1y ago
    There are several top level comments here acting like this is the first time the government has done something like this. It's not. The previous administration was doing the same thing; Publicly saying that they wanted to change laws, that these companies were killing people etc. At the same time, they were also asking the companies to remove people for their speech. The threat was implicit. I don't like that the current republican administration is doing it now, I didn't like it when the previous democrat administration was doing it then. The only way to keep it from happening is for everyone to speak up, for that to happen you also need to recognize when your team is doing the same thing and call them out. Look at the comments saying "I bet we won't hear from the freeze peach crowd", of course you won't see them. Not because they don't care however but because their disagreement of the government action is getting lost in the noise of your crowds.