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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:00PM (#32940823)
Don’t mistake that those are my opinions on how things should, just what was observed.

Consider why fear was made into a virtue. You said it, “our best interests“, then look at the lens of Covid, and define that. Who got to say with that exactly was? Can you see any scenario where “Considering who the virus effects, doing nothing special is our best long term approach” would have come out of the government and media?

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by bombcar on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:07PM (#32940930)
Depending on who said it and how it was said, it could certainly have happened. It's basically what we did with the bird flu years before, and somewhat with SARS.

There may be an argument that if Covid was either more deadly or less deadly it would have had less of an effect.

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