Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?

Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by nradov on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:32PM (#32942076)

Disagreements between opposing sides regarding the appropriate pandemic response wouldn't have been resolved by focusing on what we know. Outside of a few fringe groups, most people agreed on what we knew. The disagreements stemmed more from differing values and priorities. And that's not even a problem which needs to be solved, it's just a reality of life in open societies.

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by landemva on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:07PM (#32945808)

> Outside of a few fringe groups, most people agreed on what we knew.

Mine Safety Health Administration advice was to stay home when sick and then business as usual. I was on mine sites when others were locked at home double-masked with fear. Nobody was masked on mine sites because it restricts visibility and is unsafe. Do you think MSHA is a fringe group?

OSHA tried to mandate masks and shots. It was ridiculous to watch the disparity in responses and fear.

MSHA sites are dangerous yet are safe. The OSHA approach was incorrect.

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by spookthesunset on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:33PM (#32946015)

In my observations, the people who are most afraid of Covid and most likely to “take it serious” are those who are white collar and privileged enough to not have to do hard labor. People who do shit for a living that can get them mailed or killed wrote Covid off a long time ago.

It takes an incredible amount of privilege to support the Covid mitigations. Consider that not a single person who enacted them missed a single paycheck because of the mandates. I imagine that holds true to most of the people cheering those mandates on or calling them “minor inconveniences”. A lot of privilege needs to be checked here.

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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 @11:44PM (#32947779)

Reminds me that “there are no starving people in Africa with gluten disorders”.

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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by elenaferrantes on Friday September 23, 2022 @05:23AM (#32949649)

"Outside of a few fringe groups, most people agreed on what we knew". It’s not my opinion, we "know" very little. We think we know because we read things on internet, we discuss with friends/etc but most of it is b.llsh.t as when we thought lobotomy and electrical shocks were sane and efficient treatments.

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