Facebook removed more than 20 million posts for COVID-19 misinformation

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Aug 20, 2021.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #21     Sep 29, 2021
  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    #22     Sep 29, 2021
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    I support private companies making decisions to remove misinformation which is harmful to public medical health.
     
    #23     Sep 29, 2021
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #24     Sep 29, 2021
  5. userque

    userque

    But only if you agree that it's misinformation?

    Dr. Seuss voluntarily wanted to remove what they considered 'bad' information that they put out there, and somehow, you essentially didn't think that that private company should've been allowed to do that.

    https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/cancel-culture-has-gone-too-far.356043/page-11#post-5337307

    #gwb_bookmark
     
    #25     Sep 29, 2021
  6. Look at that. Smallfil "likes" that your sister contracted the virus. Friends like that, eh?
     
    #26     Sep 29, 2021
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    So once again as outlined previously - activists raised an online mob to take down "Dr. Seuss". They threatened employees at libraries which included Dr. Seuss books, they threatened the publishing company with loss of business on other books if they continued to publish Dr. Seuss, and took actions to undermine people's lives who supported Dr. Seuss books. While we are at it tell us why all mention of Dr. Seuss was eliminated in "Read Across America" -- an event which was founded based on Dr. Seuss books. What type of pressure was exerted to remove Dr. Seuss from his own event?

    So tell me:
    • Who threatened Youtube employees to remove anti-vax videos?
    • Who threatened Youtube with loss of other business if they did not take down anti-vax videos
    Yes... we know you can't cite any instances.... because a private company taking down misinformation which harms public health is simply a wise decision on their part. It was not done from anyone threatening their employees or other business.

    The Cancelling of Doctor Seuss -- a respected children's author -- is very different than Youtube taking down false vaccine information which is harmful to public health. The publisher removed six "offensive" Dr. Seuss books -- yet this was not enough for the Cancel mob which is demanding they stop publishing all Dr. Seuss books now.

    The amusing part is the Dr. Seuss book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, which supposedly offensive to Chinese people is still published & distributed in China (in Chinese). I guess the entire country of 1.4 billion people did not find the book offensive.
     
    #27     Sep 29, 2021
  8. userque

    userque

    In the US, individuals are judged by their own actions, not the actions of others.
    What is an online "mob" vs. a group of people, online, with a common goal?
    In the US, free speech is lawful.
    If individuals are making unlawful threats, the answer is to hold those individuals accountable, not to paint all those protesting with the same brush as criminals, and slap some label on them. That's how North Korea, China, and Russia do it.
    What does "respected" have to do with it. Owning slaves was once "respected." Bill Cosby was once "respected." So what. Things change as information is revealed, and as society matures.

    Society has the right to say, "we no longer find this respectable."

    Dr. Seuss was "canceled" by it's own publishers. Don't they have the right to do that?
    Doesn't Youtube have the same right?
    Can't a brick and mortar deny service to anyone?

    Who are you do decide when Dr. Seuss can, and can't make their own business decisions?
    Or the publishers etc. decided not to "cancel," for their own reasons--regardless as to offensiveness.
     
    #28     Sep 29, 2021
  9. Dr. Seuss was not cancelled... just a few titles that no on really reads anymore..
     
    #29     Sep 29, 2021
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    And yet that is not enough for the Dr. Seuss Cancel Mob who are demanding all of his books be removed from libraries and schools.
     
    #30     Sep 29, 2021