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crowley said:

AppleInsider said:

The average person has about four streaming services, the company says. 

Crikey.  "the average".  

No doubt, I thought the whole point of Netflix (once upon a time) was one place to go where you could rent/stream just about any movie.

crowley said:
For any of that to have any credibility you're going to need to cite an example of someone with "expertise in their respective field" who was "silenced" for "spreading misinformation" and be able to prove reasonable doubt that it wasn't actually misinformation.

I've never seen anyone do that.  They just moan that operators of a private company shouldn't be able to operate it privately.  Total freedom of speech for liars at the expense of freedom of property for those who try stop the lies, eh?

Then you haven't been looking too hard. My gosh, the entire narrative within Covid-19 fiasco flip-flopped multiple times already, and people got silenced and worse for what is now considered nearly common knowledge. Just look up a few of the top signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration. Whether you ultimately agree with their positions or not, they are top people in their field.

But, you asked for one, so I'll give you one I'm highly familiar with. In about July of 2020, Dr Fauci was on a virology podcast, discussing PCR testing. As part of the conversation, they noted how samples that showed positive into the mid and upper 30 cycles, were almost certainly not able to be cultured. In other words, false-positives. At the time, most of the labs were running over 40 cycles. I (and many others) who tried to get this information out (including top virologists), had our posts taken down or even accounts suspended (as did I).

If you still think this is misinformation, I'm happy to debate that point with you. I've done so successfully online with a PhD who runs a testing lab, and won. I don't understand all the terminology and 100% of the process, but I'm completely solid on the principal involved and why it was problematic in this whole Covid crisis.

foregoneconclusion said:

bluefire1 said:

This is the best news for Twitter in a long time. Finally someone’s on board who opposes censorship and will allow people who believe in different political narratives to have their say. 

Private companies can censor anything they want. That isn't what "free speech" means. 

In non-detail-principal, I suppose. In reality, if said companies are acting in certain ways or wielding too much political influence, etc. that might get challenged by greater powers. Just like there end up being practical limits on free-speech, there are also such limits on censorship.

crowley said:
Since hate speech, criminality and falsehoods are the only political things even remotely censored from Twitter (and not massively effectively) it's pretty clear why that equivalence is relevant.

LOL, ROFL...
(I once got my Twitter account suspended for quoting Fauci from a virology podcast... just FYI)

foregoneconclusion said:

JWSC said: Musk is fed up with arbitrary removal of prominent people for allegedly spreading disinformation according to Twitter's appointed fact checkers.

Examples?

Do you want me to spend days on here typing? I'd actually give it a shot if I didn't think the tread would just get pulled down anyway.

StrangeDays said:

byronl said:

hopefully twitter’s censorship problem will get better

They don't have a censorship problem. They're a private website with a terms of use ...

The, 'yes, they're doing something bad, but trust me, I can defend it' post.

crowley said:
Unfortunately for them his story is not so simple: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-malone-vaccine-inventor-vaccine-skeptic/619734/

The Atlantic?! (This thread gets funnier by the moment.)

He has a long road ahead of him, given that he can't just fire a bunch of them and start over. But, I wish him all the best. Twitter is highly infected.

ihatescreennames said:
As I mentioned in a different thread, someone like my MIL would be easily fooled by this type of social engineering. She frequently has issues on her Mac that she never has on her iOS devices. 

Yeah, hopefully people - even at a beginner level in crypto - wouldn't fall prey to this, but they probably will. If something is asking for your seed-phrase, EVERY alarm bell in existence should be going off. But, the core principal of never clicking any important link en emails needs to be much more widely taught.