proud republican wrote:
https://foxrochester.com/news/c****av***s/video-of-doctors-group-blocked-by-social-media-for-misleading-c****av***s-claims
What happened to Free Speech?? Just because you don't agree with premise that kids can and should go to school and hydroxichloroquine works and saves lives , does it mean that you have to destroy the video ??? Censorship just like C*******t Party in America is alive and well !!
LOL
1. "Free speech" has nothing to do with what happened.
2. the video wasn't destroyed.
3. censorship is a major part of the Republican platform.
4. the C*******t Party in America is tiny and harmless.
It always amazes me how people can fill their entire post with fiction and think it isn't.
Free speech is a myth. People erroneously think that if you live in America you have a right to say wh**ever you want. This has never been true in the past, it's not true today and there's no reason to expect it ever will be.
The 1st Amendment specifically prevents Congress from prohibiting speech. That's all it says. So to violate the 1st Amendment, Congress (not Twitter or Facebook but Congress, specifically) would have to pass a bill which the president would have to sign into law that prohibits speech. Only then is the 1st Amendment violated.
So if a social media platform in the private sector decides for ANY reason that it doesn't want to host a specific video, they have the FREEDOM to take it down no matter how much YOU want private businesses to be FORCED to keep hosting it.
Many companies have policies about what is acceptable and what is not. There's something called "social responsibility" that refers to the general idea that offensive language, pornographic content and things like irresponsible advice should be disallowed.
Now, I'm not going to judge the video based on it's content but I will say that if Twitter, Facebook and YouTube ALL took the video down, it strongly suggests one of two things... a) There is something very wrong with the video or b) all these companies are conspiring against the message.
I'm putting my bet on option "a" because...
1. All of these companies have existing policies that they say the content of the video violated. There's no way they can do this without the risk of a lawsuit that forces them to prove the violation. So chances are high that they can in which case, the authors should have known better (and they probably did).
2. The idea that a video can violate the policies of multiple platforms is not far-fetched.
3. The website for "America's Frontline Doctors", the group that published the video was hosted on a consumer-grade network and is currently down because their account expired. That has "legitimate" written all over it! LOL
3. I can't find a single legitimate reference to America's Frontline Doctors in any medical journal or third party report.
4. I found out that America's Frontline Doctors was funded by the Tea Party. Wow! This just gets better.
5. The message presented by the video suggested that face masks are not helpful and that hydroxychloroquine is a sufficient defense against C****-**. This is in direct contrast to what qualified medical experts are saying. (But it's exactly what Trump said). Uh-huh.
I know it's standard practice for the right to deny science, but to pose as doctors and advise Americans to dismiss the advice of legitimate professionals is pretty jacked up - especially when the lives hang in balance.
The consensus among medical experts are saying that face masks ARE helpful and hydroxychloroquine is NOT sufficient. Not heeding their advice is k*****g Americans by the thousands. And to promote that ignorance just to make Trump look better is sickening.