Well, good for Google. Drop in the bucket, but whatever.
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Oculus Spirit [97320]
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Well, good for Google. Drop in the bucket, but whatever.
Sep 29, 2021, 12:51 PM
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/youtube-is-banning-prominent-anti-vaccine-activists-and-blocking-all-anti-vaccine-content/ar-AAOXmdF
There's a ton of vaccine misinformation (I call it lies) out there, and it's propagated like never before. Of the two "major" websites/accounts listed, the one for Robert Kennedy is flat out a long overdue move. Guy is probably responsible for more American deaths than the Taliban and Al Qaida. He has a whole ecosystem of misinformation websites out there and they're propagated on right wing blogs, and conspiracy blogs.
I recall an article from one of his websites, which cited a study from Singapore that vaccinated people carry 250 times the viral load of unvaccinated people (SCARY HEADLINE, and was repeated in the article). Well, just so happens I had already read the study, from the original website in Singapore. The study said vaccinated and unvaccinated people carry the same viral loads with Delta, and those loads are 250 times the viral load of the ORIGINAL WUHAN STRAIN. The Singapore study was not linked, of course, but it was the same study. Went back a week later and the website had made a correction, honest mistake (BS, they were lit up). Didn't matter because their goal was reached.
Bad stuff happening out there, and he's a flaming liberal nutjob and conservatives are gobbling up his misinformation. I swear if I didn't know better, you couldn't have a better plan to fight conservatives than what Kennedy is doing. How these websites even function is beyond me. And of course based on Google banning the guy's universe of propaganda videos, the "free speech" people are angry because somehow lies are "free speech"? You can't yell fire in a crowded theater, and you can't publish flat out lies under the guise of "free speech" either.
And when you confront someone who believes the garbage, and you link to the study, the actual original study from a website that ends in .sg, and is an official website of the Singapore government, and it says something DIFFERENT than Kennedy's propaganda article on the very same study, they don't believe you. They say the Singapore government is in bed with the illuminati, or whatever mental gymnastics they need to reconcile their belief. And I've seen websites, filled with once reasonable conservatives, with very well articulated political posts, and those sites have been around for YEARS. And even there, the nutjobs have taken over. Politics does not define if you are a nutjob by the way. Kennedy is no better than the conservative nutjobs who peddle his lies to the detriment of their voting population. The BS social media outrage at some local school here in Lexington teaching transgenderism in 5th grade. False. Never happened. But it was peddled by nutjob websites, fake Facebook accounts, and Qanon conspiracists, and people I know well, were suckered into the feigned outrage. I even told them and they didn't believe me, because they were so sure. Well, they I explained it to them, showed the the source(s) of the misinformation, and they shrugged their shoulders and keep on digesting garbage.
Bad stuff happening out there.
We'd be better served if social media was unplugged. Really. When anyone can post garbage/lies/etc., without consequences, then just unplug it. Google bans one website, or one purveyor of lies and propaganda, it takes all of 5 minutes for another website/Youtube account to pop up. If I were an enemy of the US, I could think of no better way to destroy the country than to peddle lies under the guise of "free speech". Use our biggest "asset" against us.
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Oculus Spirit [78954]
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Re: Well, good for Google. Drop in the bucket, but whatever.
Sep 29, 2021, 3:05 PM
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Orange Blooded [2676]
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social media is more deadly than covid
Sep 30, 2021, 10:24 AM
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No doubt in my mind.
Thought experiment: drop covid into the world circa 1975, or even 1995, what do you think happens? Well, we didn’t have MRNA back then, or even PCR tests, but we would have had some reasonable plan to mitigate transmission.
And I can virtually guarantee you people would have done what they were advised to do by he
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Orange Blooded [2676]
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Re: social media
Sep 30, 2021, 10:25 AM
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By their doctors.
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All-In [46664]
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BUT YOU'RE TAKING AWAY MY FREEDOM TO POST
Sep 30, 2021, 10:26 AM
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OBVIOUSLY FAKE MEMES!
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