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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by hndamien on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:01PM (#34009962)
The test of the truth of a live location is trivial. The test of truth of COVID information is not. In the case are spreading something that is provably untrue eg. 1 + 1 = 3, even in that case, you should just rebut and explain why it is untrue.

Nice strawman!

It's a question of safety of provably true information in this case.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by cmh89 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:07PM (#34010015)
>The test of the truth of a live location is trivial. The test of truth of COVID information is not.

The assertion that posting a 'live location' create dangerous real world consequences is completely absurd. We know plenty about the dead humans COVID misinformation left in its wake.

You are okay with censorship here because you agree with it. Full stop.

>It's a question of safety of provably true information in this case.

Okay, prove the lack of safety.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by hndamien on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:58AM (#34011512)
> It's a question of safety of provably true information in this case.

The information is provably true by going to the location and verifying that the person is there.

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