Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by 14 on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:16PM (#31159983)

Wasn’t YouTube deleting content that suggested covid was airborne transmitted? Now we are seeing the scientific community agree it is in fact airborne. We should not have guard rails it only leads to censoring and whenever there is censorship there will be abuse of it.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by op00to on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:21PM (#31160074)

Do you think it’s possible for the understanding of complex scientific phenomena like the type of spread of a novel virus to change as scientists gain more knowledge? Or do you just get one shot, and that’s the final answer forever?

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by rottencupcakes on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:31PM (#31160205)

Yes, scientific consensus can change, which lends support to the idea that platforms shouldn’t be banning ideas that aren’t the current scientific consensus.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by dymk on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:55PM (#31162396)

I don't see how that follows. The people saying it was airborne early on were not saying it with scientific backing, they might as well have been saying it was waterborne. Basically, they guessed and got lucky.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by wtetzner on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:45PM (#31184110)

Just because there wasn't scientific consensus doesn't mean there was no scientific backing. How about just not censoring?

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by op00to on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:20AM (#31247930)

Because most people don't have the capability to tell the difference between bullshit and scientific fact.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nomel on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:40PM (#31161038)

What's your suggestion for censorship then? How do you know the current understanding is correct?

You can censor comments suggesting the current understanding of the science might be flawed, but then what happens when the understanding shifts to that censored understanding? Do you go censor all of the comments, CDC articles, and news clips that communicated the incorrect understanding? Do you remove the censorship for the old comments? Are there any repercussions for unknowingly leading people astray, and perhaps even causing some deaths for those who thought they were protected by flawed guidelines?

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by brigandish on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:30PM (#31160192)

Isn't that supporting their point? If things change then surely differing views should be allowed, if not encouraged.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by Rapzid on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:04PM (#31161984)

A coronavirus that's not airborne?!

When was this exactly that YouTube was banning videos for saying it was airborne? Examples?

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