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by javagram 6y ago
Ongoing studies should continue and we can see if there is an provable effect, now that the claim of health danger has been discredited. My guess right now is that at best it will be as effective as remdesivir, but really until an actual RC
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by javagram 6y ago
Looked at both your links 1. Seems to be saying there isn’t currently a health risk posed by the continuing of their trial. 2. Says they tried using HCQ and PPE together and found health providers were catching the virus less. Nothing in th
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by javagram 6y ago
> Some US states have blocked pharmacies from filling doctor prescriptions for HCQ, instead of advocating for increased manufacturing capacity within US factories that make HCQ/ingredients. This was done because of a run on HCQ by p
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by javagram 6y ago
The insider trading argument was proven to be nonsense. He had a <$5000 interest in a mutual fund that fractionally owns the drug manufacturer . For multi-millionaire to care about this would be like dumpster diving for pennies. If anyth
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by javagram 6y ago
Look at how easily the original flawed pro-HCQ paper was bought into (edit: removed my false statement it was retracted - I think it was criticized by the publishing society of the journal, but not retracted.). Many people were treated with
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by javagram 6y ago
This is not about user filters. I haven’t seen trump’s post on my Facebook because I don’t follow him. This is about employees who feel that Trump is so dangerous that his posts should be deleted or hidden to prevent his willing followers f
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by javagram 6y ago
All they have to do is get on gab.com if they want a completely free speech platform. Strangely Trump and his ilk haven’t jumped over to Gab yet. Perhaps because they don’t want to be associated with what actually happens to a platform that
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by javagram 6y ago
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/trump-jokes-rigg... > Since assuming office in January 2017, Trump has made at least 27 references to staying in office beyond the constitutional limit of two te
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by javagram 6y ago
Under section 230, Fox News is not liable to suit if someone not affiliated with Fox posts illegal content on their comments on their website. They are liable to suit if Fox News employees post illegal content on their website. Twitter has
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by javagram 6y ago
> The press can be held liable for false claims by those they affect. For example, Nick Sandman was able to sue CNN for the Covington coverage, and settle, because CNN was liable for publishing incorrect information. However, if CNN has
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by javagram 6y ago
Twitter was crazy for Bernie, but Joe Biden won the primary anyway. Twitter is a self-selected minority of power users. It isn’t “The place” for political discourse, it’s simply a popular online web forum. Facebook is likely at least as inf
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by javagram 6y ago
FoxNews.com has comments on their website. By the logic of the order, Fox News should also lose their immunity and be liable for suit for anything posted by commenters to their online articles.
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by javagram 6y ago
The president has no authority over this subject matter except that given him by congress. This executive order is a directive to the FTC and FCC, which are both bodies created by congressional law. As a result, neither has power to violate
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by javagram 6y ago
Pretty sure comcast is legally allowed to block CNBC or Fox. Cable channels regularly get dropped from lineups due to disputes over fees. Here’s a recent example of NBC in threat of being dropped. https://www.pressherald.com&#x2F
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by javagram 6y ago
Wrong, because no one is bulldozing your house. You’re on a street with a 100 houses and one of them is having a cool party. But the cool kids don’t like you and don’t want you in their house. The other 99 houses (Gab, Mastodon, theDonald.w
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by javagram 6y ago
“ Twitter is _the_ place where political discourse happens.” Say what? https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw... Twitter is a minority. Fox News Channel is arguably the place where
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by javagram 6y ago
This headline doesn’t seem to match the body of the article: > "The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health
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by javagram 6y ago
Trump said that all people in CA were going to be mailed a ballot without being registered to vote. That’s objectively false. Jack’s explanation for putting a warning label on that to let people know that actually they do need to register t
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by javagram 6y ago
> What most young people or people on the left seem to want very badly is for tech companies to remove viewpoints they disagree with. Unfortunately the reality is that this is in fact political censorship. And it will lead directly to th
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by javagram 6y ago
As they have left trump’s false claim up, just with a note below it, doesn’t that still leave the reader/viewer as the ultimate arbiter of truth? The reader can decide for themselves whether Trump or the other linked sources are more t
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by javagram 6y ago
Trump could set up an alternative to twitter tomorrow using his billion dollar fortune as seed capital. The technology is already out there - GNUSocial, Gab, and Mastodon. Look at theDonald.win as an example. Reddit banned their forum, so t
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by javagram 6y ago
Trump has an email and SMS list with millions of supporters. He can also post on facebook whenever he wishes, or address the nation in prime time speeches that will be carried on TV channels and live streams. He can also continue to post on
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by javagram 6y ago
> No. The reason people are using Twitter is because most other people are using Twitter. The network effect is very real and very strong on social media. Trump has millions of followers on his email lists. He could send out an email or
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by javagram 6y ago
An individual website is not the internet. Anyone who uses the internet has a choice of millions of websites. Everyone using twitter and seeing the twitter notification on Trump’s tweets knows that twitter placed it there. If they were outr
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by javagram 6y ago
> This issue goes beyond Trump. People have been de-platformed on various social media sites. Twitter has taken on the role of the virtual public space. Twitter is performing a public service in their publishing of tweets People who have
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by javagram 6y ago
> Nobody sees a news-paper as a public space. The fact that anybody can make a social media account and instantly publish information that can be read by anybody, and the fact that people conceptually now see public profiles as public sp
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by javagram 6y ago
> Yes, those of us with technical know-how can argue that personal websites are that equivalent. But this is depriving those that see Twitter, Facebook, et. al. as a public platform, of the right to have their voice heard. A tweet is now
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by javagram 6y ago
Trump could start his own Mastodon or Gab server for his legions to follow him on. His campaign certainly has the resources.
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by javagram 6y ago
> This isn't going to end well, and unless Twitter is going to exercise this impartially (which is impossible given a human is involved), they are going to lose their platform status, and justifiably so. This isn’t how the law works
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by javagram 6y ago
> A notable case was the unraveling of the whole Iraq WMD story, and especially the yellowcake affair. This was major news in the US in my recollection. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/what-

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