Wait, Trump promoting chloroquine as a miracle cure and recommending bleach injections were okay, but Maduro doing the same can get him banned?
> recommending bleach injections
This is a mischaracterization.
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#12People should start thinking twice before using US-controlled platforms/services/anything.
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#14Has the panel of experts on censoring political leaders convened yet or is FB is doing bans on whims until then.
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#15People should start thinking twice before using US-controlled platforms/services/anything.
It is unfortunate, but US shot itself in the foot by proving that it is not willing to be a neutral third party, which it was perceived as in the 90s.
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#16Facebook is a private platform, so they should be able to censor whatever they want as long as it is not discriminatory against protected characteristics.
Good god am I fucking sick and tired of the 'they're a private platform' argument
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#17A lot of this is starting to remind me of the way Galileo and Darwin were treated for announcing their breakthroughs. I know nothing about this drug Maduro is touting, but I can't help worrying that one of these days somebody is going to find an actual cure and the world will never know about it because big social media companies exile them for wrongthink.
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#18Facebook is a private platform, so they should be able to censor whatever they want as long as it is not discriminatory against protected characteristics.
Obviously they can and they do. We are discussing whether that is a good thing overall, which is further complicated by the political issues surrounding Venezuela and its current.. dual government.
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#19A lot of this is starting to remind me of the way Galileo and Darwin were treated for announcing their breakthroughs. I know nothing about this drug Maduro is touting, but I can't help worrying that one of these days somebody is going to find an actual cure and the world will never know about it because big social media companies exile them for wrongthink.
You don't announce the discovery of a miracle cure via social media, you announce it via clinical trial papers.
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#20A lot of this is starting to remind me of the way Galileo and Darwin were treated for announcing their breakthroughs. I know nothing about this drug Maduro is touting, but I can't help worrying that one of these days somebody is going to find an actual cure and the world will never know about it because big social media companies exile them for wrongthink.
Social media isn’t really the proper avenue for vetting science.