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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by TeeMassive on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:44AM (#32939486)
This is pretty much the strategy adopted by Florida and they didn't have worse results adjusted for age while everyone was calling for Desantis to be tried for genocide.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by dahart on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:19AM (#32940095)
Florida’s death rate is quite a bit worse than California’s… https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

Sweden also famously avoided lockdowns and later regretted it.

China had severe lockdowns, and to the best of our knowledge it worked.

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by colinmhayes on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:08PM (#32943987)
Worked is a funny way of describing China's situation. Sure, they have low death rates, but their economy is absolutely fucked by continuing lockdowns that they can't end because no one has immunity.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by dahart on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:53PM (#32946618)
Fair point, I could have used a better word, I was indeed only talking only about death rates.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by TeeMassive on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:11PM (#32946782)
Again, not adjusted for age
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by themitigating on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:51AM (#32939609)
Didn't he change the law to punish Disney because of their political opinion?
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by tastyfreeze on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:48PM (#32941463)
He removed special privileges granted by Florida to Disney for their political opinion. Removing preferential treatment for a global corporation that is actively working against your stated goals is a good thing and what a governor should be doing. Implementing new laws to punish Disney would be a step too far. Disney must be allowed to do as they wish within the bounds of the law but Florida doesn't have to continue letting them run their own fiefdom.
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