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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by tsol on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:05PM (#32940899)
There are multiple issues on which asking questions can get you deplatformed, or even threaten your career. I think there were always things that were considered too important to question in society, but those were traditionally relegated to the religious sphere. They were religious facts that are too sacred to question. Now there are scientific facts that are too sacred to question, and that's dangerous.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by colpabar on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:07PM (#32940924)
I think fauci declaring himself to be science incarnate did more damage to science as a whole than any of the bad-faith actors people complain about.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by MichaelCollins on Thursday September 22, 2022 @03:19PM (#32943435)
The personality cult that started to crystalize around Fauci was incredibly disturbing. For a few weeks it felt like I was being bombarded on all sides by "viral" videos of weirdos singing love songs to Fauci, getting tattoos of Fauci, all kinds of absurd celebrity worship shit. Why would anything like that be recommended to me in the first place, I never watch any content like that.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by axpy906 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:40PM (#32945542)
Really convenient how his role as the lead public official pushing AZT during the AIDs epidemic got memory-holed too.

Edit: Adding sources to spite the Dow voter for merely stating a fact.

Him saying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM

An article: “ Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.”

https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1...

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by kevinventullo on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:11PM (#32941780)
I must have missed that press conference.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by nradov on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:38PM (#32942882)
It was an interview on MSNBC's Chuck Todd show, not a press conference.

"attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science"

- Dr. Anthony Fauci, 2021

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/fauci-blasts-preposterous-co...

In context his statement was a bit more nuanced. But I don't think it's healthy for a bureaucrat to try to personify a process. Taking political opposition personally is seldom productive.

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by OrvalWintermute on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:44PM (#32945579)
The biggest problem with Dr. Fauci's statements are different than from what is being discussed.

I believe in the scientific method, and I also know there is a distinct possibility that a statement I make today, based on what we know today, may be incredibly wrong. Dr. Fauci's statements are frightening because they lack intellectual humility, and they remind me of a comic book phrase, rather than a statement by a leading physician or researcher.

Would we expect anything different from Judge Dredd? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/miVoe7U6Lx4?t=30

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by hosteur on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:35PM (#32942856)
Might be this

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/06/09/fa...

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by kevinventullo on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:01PM (#32945751)
Oof, yeah fair enough.
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