Yes, my point.
This is about government working with private business to control speech.
I completely fine with private platforms "deciding what to remove, label etc." The issue I have is the government having a part of that discussion. Why should the government be involved to "handle the process more efficiently and effectively" in a private business?
Let's take a look at a couple of the samples presented in the article. Im going to include Gameface and Fish in this conversation as well since they responded to my post.
Covid Origins
There are two hypothesizes
1. Wuhan wet market / Natural -
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/wuhan-market-covid-19/index.html
2. Wuhan Lab / Man Made -
https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/new-report-supports-claim-covid-19-came-from-wuhan-lab/
Even today, still the two hypothesizes exist and both are plausible. They still do not have a definitive origin. The DNI explained this. I added the
DNI.gov declassified assessment of Covid origins to this post.
Yet one of these Origins were considered conspiracy theories and misinformation:
www.science.org
WHO media briefing from Wuhan on COVID-19 mission, 9 February 2021
www.who.int
Even in this forum posters who disagreed with the post shot down the Man Made theory:
One Brow -
Except, the virus is not manufactured and shows no signs of being manufactured.
Than again, you think Mercola is credible.
Gameface -
This "speculation" is not new. There were completely unfounded conspiracy theories just like this literally seconds after there was news of this outbreak.
Both of you shot down the man mad hypothesis even though you both can not, even today prove where the origin was. No one can. Both of you were on the governments and media's side on this subject.
What I don't like is the government promoting their "truth"(Natural) and shutting down conversation what they feel is "misinformation" (Man Made) and working with social media to do this.
Vaccine efficacy
I have posted on this topic before and included a video that shows the government, including the President, that claims you can not spreed Covid if you are vaccinated.
Some public-health experts have pushed back on the CDC director’s claim that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus” and “don’t get sick.”
nymag.com
View: https://youtu.be/nTlxpxdH3Yk
If someone claimed otherwise, this was misinformation. Except the governments "truth" was misinformation. Once again, I don't like how the government was working with social media to "throttle or suppress" through a special Facebook portal, on what they consider misinformation.
I like my governor, even though I don't like his overreaching law "Stop Woke Act". The judge in the case mentioned in my original posts link had a great line which I agree with:
“Florida’s legislators may well find plaintiffs’ speech ‘repugnant.’ But under our constitutional scheme, the ‘remedy’ for repugnant speech is more speech, not enforced silence,”
The governments job is not to silence speech. Keep the Government out of social media and our speech.
If Trump did this and silenced speech on Stormy, or taxes or anything else you all would be screaming from the roof how this goes against our 1st amendment rights. I just don't want to go down that path at all.