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This is a the consequence of having an administration that transparently lied at every turn. Even if they were right, no one would believe them.
Your statement follows a pattern of, ‘the person was doing X therefore the unjustifiable response was justified.’ This fails the commonly adopted Rawlsian theory of justice (Veil of Ignorance), and it is known as victim blaming.
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It set off the flamewar detector as well as getting a lot of user flags. I've turned that off now. As for 'suppressed' please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27309238 .
> As for 'suppressed' please see... thanks for the list. The suppression I'm talking about occurred before your earliest link, threads closed, cut off, etc. I remember because I learned about Yuri Deigin's research in April and no discussion of it was allowed on HN which should be a place for reasoned discussion
I'd be a bit careful about the word "allowed" because that posits an "allower" when much of the process you're describing is stochastic. I'm not trying to evade responsibility for the part that we play (at least I hope I'm not), but it's so much more complicated than just "allow v. unallow".
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Part of the problem that there is censorship on publishing in the big journals. That said, there are published RCT showing Ivermectin effectiveness. In my second link on my first comment, there's a talk about the overwhelming data, censorship and hindrances for publishing. Sharing evidence on Ivermectin - Dr. Tess Lawrie https://player.vimeo.com/video/554350476?autoplay=1#t=5756
Is there widespread censorship? https://ivmmeta.com links to all sorts of studies published on the effectiveness of ivwhatever, all as support for using it. It sounds more like the rest of the research/medical community is just not convinced.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos-and-press/flccc-relea...
And in video form here:
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So, I’m not going to claim if it’s a monopoly or not directly, but just provide new angles on this debate… Twitter may have an x% of market valuations of other companies… but that doesn’t have to be the only metric we base decisions off of. Amazon is more than twitch, so has a bigger evaluation. But obviously that other business doesn’t compete with Twitter. Twitter might account for (eg) 25% of phone use time (and s…
Sure. Many things are possible. Twitter could be using an embedded hypnotron in their apps to control elite opinion. But when people are talking about effectively nationalizing one company because they don't like its moderation policies, I think we need more than speculation. And you might not care about why we have antitrust laws or how monopoly impairs free markets. But I sure do. If somebody wants to make the clai…
So Gab and Parler should be absolutely free to operate as they wish, in accordance with US laws?
(Because there many folks who like Twitter's moderation who also believe Gab and Parler should be run off the internet, and have tried their best to do so)
Am I the only one who feels like this is mostly a non-issue. I feel like the case of if this came from a lab for from a market is mostly taking a political side against China - if it came from a lab, or for China - if it was naturally developed. If it came from a Chinese lab as part of a conscious effort of weaponizing a virus, sure, that's important, but I don't think anyone is saying that. If it came from a lab acc…
Blimey - it would have been headlines in every paper on the planet for weeks if it was shown to be a Belgium lab cock up.
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No that does not shock me. But the point is that one strategy can be good for one goal but bad for another. Going around Chinatown and encouraging the populous to do the same "to combat racism" is obviously at odds with "be careful and social distance due to covid". Does that shock the shit out of you? I'll be honest as well, I think Pelosi's real motive there is to do the opposite of what Trump wants, rather than co…
She did it at a time when there were zero incidents of COVID in the US and before the Republican party decided that to get ahead of the issue they'd create a racist flamewar instead of trying to handle the problem. Doing the opposite of what reality dictates was Trump's schtick, not Pelosi's.
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Thanks! I've added these two to the above list: Wuhan lab did research on bat viruses, but no evidence of accidental release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070031 - May 2020 (76 comments) Experts disagree on whether Covid-19 could have leaked from a research lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22695825 - March 2020 (6 comments) The others seem to either have no comments or in one case (the Montagnier…
I know your focus is generally pointing to prior discussion. Just to be clear, I'm looking at the evolution of the story itself, at least as reflected through HN submissions (survival bias noted).
Users generally don't like clicking on HN /item links that go to threads with no comments, so I tend to avoid those.
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Here's a tip: stop saying shit like "MAGA-verse" and try to talk to people, assuming they're good human beings with honest intentions.
I’m quoting the person you’re talking about. You claimed they’re saying you’re from the magaverse, when they were explicitly referring to "other comments".
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> Russiagate is just one prior example. It was patently false from the outset What is "Russiagate"? What about it was "patently false"? The Mueller investigation got multiple indictments against Russian nationals. They also obtained convictions of people working in the Trump campaign or administration for election-related offenses. They found evidence of Russian attempts to influence voters in swing states by illegal…
This is a very interesting comment for future historians, as it shows how people convince themselves that they have absorbed substance when in fact there is no such substance. Virtually no aspect of your statement extends beyond press headlines, where the content and follow-on of each of these stories entirely defused the substance of the respective headline. That is why the whole thing that you believe is very impor…
> Virtually no aspect of your statement extends beyond press headlines
I didn't realize I was writing an exam with essay-type questions.
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This is a very interesting comment for future historians, as it shows how people convince themselves that they have absorbed substance when in fact there is no such substance. Virtually no aspect of your statement extends beyond press headlines, where the content and follow-on of each of these stories entirely defused the substance of the respective headline. That is why the whole thing that you believe is very impor…
This comment would be more valuable if you’d made it in a constructive way with even one detailed example of defused substance.