Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by panny on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:14PM
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>Which services banned Trump's recent medical report? I would have assumed "Twitter blocks Trump medical record release" had been in the news and cannot find a single story about it.
Because that's not how censorship works. You don't block it and then draw attention to the thing you blocked. That would be counter productive. Here, have a look at this,
Twitter also regularly bans and blocks things temporarily while they're trending to stop the spread. Once attention has moved to another issue, they sometimes lift the restrictions. In effect, deleting their censorship actions.
Because that's not how censorship works. You don't block it and then draw attention to the thing you blocked. That would be counter productive. Here, have a look at this,
https://imgur.com/H26C0dS
Now look at
https://twitter.com/thelastrefuge2
and all you can see is a retweet of
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1315101764958539777
Twitter also regularly bans and blocks things temporarily while they're trending to stop the spread. Once attention has moved to another issue, they sometimes lift the restrictions. In effect, deleting their censorship actions.