Re: Censoring Social Media
Originally Posted by
Mups
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What about the religious nuts, or the hate preachers, should they be allowed their free speech ideas to try and force people to think their way?
Free speech is free speech.
If you are of a desire to forcibly staple people's mouths shut because you don't like their views then you stand alongside all the dictators and tyrants of the world.
Free speech is free speech. It means I can shout as loud as I like about the current government and what I think of them.
The EU laws talk about "Freedom Of Expression", rather than Freedom of Speech per say.
And with that comes a whole bunch of caveats and responsibilities and most of those are fine.
For example one can not within free speech simply go saying for example that Person XYZ is a paedophile. Well let me correct that. You CAN go say anything you want, but there are consequences to doing so. In the above case it would be slander and defamation of character and would result in a libel court case.
In the context of your OP any attempts to simply shut down open discourse about vaccines is both wicked and oppressive. There needs to be due assessment of the plethora of available information by all concerned in order to make an informed decision. Closing down debate of such information would amount to totalitarian censorship and be a very significant concern for most free people. Such censorship should be opposed with vigour imho.
The medical industry as a whole is not without its problems or failures or corruption and censorship only breeds more corruption. ALL areas of society should be under free public scrutiny. Consequently people are concerned about a great many aspects of the current health industry.
For example there is growing concern about the level of people that the health industry is currently addicting to opiods in the USA. There are many suggestions of over prescribing such drugs which amounts to little more than peddling crack coccaine. A very lucrative business I'm sure for the drug cartels.
Our health is a precious thing, it's about the only real important thing we have as without it we are practically nothing. When health becomes a marketable profit making commodity we are headed for dark times indeed. You ultimately reach a point where simply living, being born, just existing comes with a huge price tag. i.e you will die if you don't pay for drugs A, B, C and D and have vaccines E, F, G and H and so on.
The freedoms of the human race as a species is decreasing at an alarming rate due to a small minority of vastly wealthy and powerful cartels and elitists. If it is permitted to continue then life itself will become a marketable commodity.
Finally I will absolutely agree with DooD's post above.
Any attempt by the vaccine industry to influence law making to outlaw and censor discussion of vaccines on the internet will absolutely drive honest sincere concerns and conspiracy theorists alike into overdrive. It's not the way to go.
It also has impacts to research and testing.
What happens if a genuine independent research body tests a vaccine and proves its efficacy is extremely low?
Should they be censored so that the public are not aware of such information?