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Reports of censorship during pandemic
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Emily
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I've got this cued to a question asked of Richard Hatchett about the theories that repeated boosters could harm the immune system. The first part of his response has the audio cut. I can't lipread, so I'm curious. Maybe this was a technical glitch with good timing, or part of his response was censored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9s8OwBkVt0&t=1311s
COVID-19: What’s Next? | Davos Agenda 2022
World Economic Forum
The emergence of the Omicron variant – and the reintroduction of national lockdowns, travel bans and quarantines – has reinforced the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join experts and leaders to find out the possible scenarios for COVID in 2022 and beyond.
Speakers: Francine Lacqua/Editor-at-Large and Presenter/Bloomberg Television
Stéphane Bancel/Chief Executive Officer/Moderna
Richard Hatchett/Chief Executive Officer/Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI)
Anthony S. Fauci/Director/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Annelies Wilder-Smith/Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9s8OwBkVt0&t=1311s
COVID-19: What’s Next? | Davos Agenda 2022
World Economic Forum
The emergence of the Omicron variant – and the reintroduction of national lockdowns, travel bans and quarantines – has reinforced the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join experts and leaders to find out the possible scenarios for COVID in 2022 and beyond.
Speakers: Francine Lacqua/Editor-at-Large and Presenter/Bloomberg Television
Stéphane Bancel/Chief Executive Officer/Moderna
Richard Hatchett/Chief Executive Officer/Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI)
Anthony S. Fauci/Director/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Annelies Wilder-Smith/Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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sharon sanders
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BBC criticism of Dr. John Campbell:
Covid: Posts claiming only 17,000 died of virus 'factually incorrect'
By Rachel Schraer
Health and disinformation reporter
snip
Then on 20 January, Dr John Campbell, a retired nurse educator who has amassed a huge following on YouTube, released a video describing the figures as a "huge story" and suggested Covid deaths were "much lower than mainstream media seems to have been intimating".
https://www.bbc.com/news/60145237
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A complete mischaracterization of Dr. John Campbell's video - and the article published without talking to him first.
Very unprofessional.
His rebuttal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bza1gAc8sOA
His channel (for now). https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching
fyi - He is "pro-vaccine" you BBC mantra players.
Covid: Posts claiming only 17,000 died of virus 'factually incorrect'
By Rachel Schraer
Health and disinformation reporter
snip
Then on 20 January, Dr John Campbell, a retired nurse educator who has amassed a huge following on YouTube, released a video describing the figures as a "huge story" and suggested Covid deaths were "much lower than mainstream media seems to have been intimating".
https://www.bbc.com/news/60145237
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A complete mischaracterization of Dr. John Campbell's video - and the article published without talking to him first.
Very unprofessional.
His rebuttal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bza1gAc8sOA
His channel (for now). https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching
fyi - He is "pro-vaccine" you BBC mantra players.
sharon sanders
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EFF
@EFF
Was your content taken down when you think it should have been left up? The new http://onlinecensorship.org has information about how to appeal on 6 major social media platforms.
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Pathfinder
Editor, Senior Moderator
FOX NEWS FLASH Published 6 hours ago
US truckers slam Facebook for removing page organizing DC freedom convoy: 'Censorship at its finest'
Truckers plan to drive from California to Washington, D.C., in protest of vaccine mandates.
By Amy Nelson | Fox News
Facebook silences US truckers protesting vaccine mandates
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The group, titled "Convoy to D.C. 2022," acted as a place for truckers to plan and coordinate their trek from California to Washington, D.C.
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Jeremy Johnson, who set up the Facebook group, said his personal account was also removed...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebo...voy-censorship
US truckers slam Facebook for removing page organizing DC freedom convoy: 'Censorship at its finest'
Truckers plan to drive from California to Washington, D.C., in protest of vaccine mandates.
By Amy Nelson | Fox News
Facebook silences US truckers protesting vaccine mandates
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The group, titled "Convoy to D.C. 2022," acted as a place for truckers to plan and coordinate their trek from California to Washington, D.C.
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Jeremy Johnson, who set up the Facebook group, said his personal account was also removed...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/facebo...voy-censorship
Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/blue-stack-strikes-back
The Blue Stack Strikes Back
The welding of media, government bureaucracy, big corporations, and banking together into a partisan weapon to punish dissenters points the way toward an ugly future
by Zaid Jilani
February 08, 2022
Joe Rogan has found himself in the crosshairs of many of America’s most powerful institutions. Although he has long been a thorn in the side of progressives who object to his free-wheeling conversations on America’s most popular podcast, the latest controversy was kicked off by an open letter penned by 270 doctors, health care professionals, and academics who complained about interviews in which Rogan and his guests express skepticism about COVID vaccinations. The letter’s authors demanded that Spotify “immediately establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform.”
Although they represented a tiny portion of America’s medical professionals, these public health activists were able to win widespread coverage from the mainstream news media, with only minor protest from conservative media, which pointed out that more than two-thirds of the letter’s signatories were neither medical doctors nor doctors of osteopathic medicine.
This activist-media alliance soon won support from a third group: major celebrities. The countercultural musician Neil Young announced that he would be pulling all his music from the Spotify streaming service in protest of Rogan’s presence there. Despite his longtime support for free expression and his own scientific skepticism—he dubbed his 2006 antiwar concerts the “Freedom of Speech Tour,” and remains an ardent opponent of the use of GMOs in food— Young effortlessly slotted himself into the new progressive censorship machine. Soon after, singer Joni Mitchell and rock musician Nils Lofgren joined in.
The U.S. government, forbidden by contemporary constitutional law from simply censoring Rogan itself, dispatched Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to reinforce President Joe Biden’s message imparted last year that social media platforms are “killing people” by allowing too much freedom of speech about the pandemic, the virus, and the vaccines.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, but they also have a right to accurate information to make that decision with,” Murthy told MSNBC. “This is not just about what the government can do,” he coyly noted, “this is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way we get past misinformation is if we are careful about what we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation.”
Murthy’s message reinforced the media outlets that had taken aim at Rogan, inspiring a wave of new reports not only focused on his discussions of COVID but also labeling him problematic in other regards. The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, whose role in this ecosystem is to disguise Democratic Party talking points as humor, criticized a segment in which Rogan and author Jordan Peterson poke fun at the absurdity of modern racial categorization, noting that nobody is actually “white” or “Black.” CNN signal boosted Noah’s criticism, as did a range of other outlets. Other activists found old clips of Rogan mentioning (but not using) racial slurs....
The Blue Stack Strikes Back
The welding of media, government bureaucracy, big corporations, and banking together into a partisan weapon to punish dissenters points the way toward an ugly future
by Zaid Jilani
February 08, 2022
Joe Rogan has found himself in the crosshairs of many of America’s most powerful institutions. Although he has long been a thorn in the side of progressives who object to his free-wheeling conversations on America’s most popular podcast, the latest controversy was kicked off by an open letter penned by 270 doctors, health care professionals, and academics who complained about interviews in which Rogan and his guests express skepticism about COVID vaccinations. The letter’s authors demanded that Spotify “immediately establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform.”
Although they represented a tiny portion of America’s medical professionals, these public health activists were able to win widespread coverage from the mainstream news media, with only minor protest from conservative media, which pointed out that more than two-thirds of the letter’s signatories were neither medical doctors nor doctors of osteopathic medicine.
This activist-media alliance soon won support from a third group: major celebrities. The countercultural musician Neil Young announced that he would be pulling all his music from the Spotify streaming service in protest of Rogan’s presence there. Despite his longtime support for free expression and his own scientific skepticism—he dubbed his 2006 antiwar concerts the “Freedom of Speech Tour,” and remains an ardent opponent of the use of GMOs in food— Young effortlessly slotted himself into the new progressive censorship machine. Soon after, singer Joni Mitchell and rock musician Nils Lofgren joined in.
The U.S. government, forbidden by contemporary constitutional law from simply censoring Rogan itself, dispatched Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to reinforce President Joe Biden’s message imparted last year that social media platforms are “killing people” by allowing too much freedom of speech about the pandemic, the virus, and the vaccines.
“People have a right to make their own decisions, but they also have a right to accurate information to make that decision with,” Murthy told MSNBC. “This is not just about what the government can do,” he coyly noted, “this is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way we get past misinformation is if we are careful about what we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation.”
Murthy’s message reinforced the media outlets that had taken aim at Rogan, inspiring a wave of new reports not only focused on his discussions of COVID but also labeling him problematic in other regards. The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, whose role in this ecosystem is to disguise Democratic Party talking points as humor, criticized a segment in which Rogan and author Jordan Peterson poke fun at the absurdity of modern racial categorization, noting that nobody is actually “white” or “Black.” CNN signal boosted Noah’s criticism, as did a range of other outlets. Other activists found old clips of Rogan mentioning (but not using) racial slurs....
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https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashio...free-speech-and-corporate-culture-1235075624/
Former Levi’s Brand President Jennifer Sey Talks Free Speech and Corporate Culture
Sey is challenging how free speech is playing out in corporate culture.
February 14, 2022, 6:06pm
Former Levi’s Brand president Jennifer Sey’s departure from the company Sunday — after nearly two years of publicly airing her personal views about mandatory school closures — sparked international new coverage Monday.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Sey said, “For me, this is not so much about Levi’s, but the stifling of speech and dissent. I think so many people have felt stifled and that they couldn’t say what they believed for fear of this mob coming for you. At this point, if your views in any way depart from the orthodoxy, it’s seen as an HR violation. I think people in the world and definitely in corporate culture feel they can’t really speak out about what they believe in. That’s meaningful to people to see someone do that. They feel, ‘Maybe I can say it.’”...
Former Levi’s Brand President Jennifer Sey Talks Free Speech and Corporate Culture
Sey is challenging how free speech is playing out in corporate culture.
February 14, 2022, 6:06pm
Former Levi’s Brand president Jennifer Sey’s departure from the company Sunday — after nearly two years of publicly airing her personal views about mandatory school closures — sparked international new coverage Monday.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Sey said, “For me, this is not so much about Levi’s, but the stifling of speech and dissent. I think so many people have felt stifled and that they couldn’t say what they believed for fear of this mob coming for you. At this point, if your views in any way depart from the orthodoxy, it’s seen as an HR violation. I think people in the world and definitely in corporate culture feel they can’t really speak out about what they believe in. That’s meaningful to people to see someone do that. They feel, ‘Maybe I can say it.’”...
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The C.D.C. Isn’t Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Feb. 20, 2022
For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.
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Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” She said the agency’s “priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable.”
Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.
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The C.D.C. also has multiple bureaucratic divisions that must sign off on important publications, and its officials must alert the Department of Health and Human Services — which oversees the agency — and the White House of their plans. The agency often shares data with states and partners before making data public. Those steps can add delays.
“The C.D.C. is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization,” said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute. “The steps that it takes to get something like this released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the C.D.C.”
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But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.
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“Tell the truth, present the data,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration. “I have to believe that there is a way to explain these things so people can understand it.”
Knowing which groups of people were being hospitalized in the United States, which other conditions those patients may have had and how vaccines changed the picture over time would have been invaluable, Dr. Offit said.
Relying on Israeli data to make booster recommendations for Americans was less than ideal, Dr. Offit noted. Israel defines severe disease differently than the United States, among other factors.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.html
The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.
By Apoorva Mandavilli
Feb. 20, 2022
For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.
...
Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” She said the agency’s “priority when gathering any data is to ensure that it’s accurate and actionable.”
Another reason is fear that the information might be misinterpreted, Ms. Nordlund said.
...
The C.D.C. also has multiple bureaucratic divisions that must sign off on important publications, and its officials must alert the Department of Health and Human Services — which oversees the agency — and the White House of their plans. The agency often shares data with states and partners before making data public. Those steps can add delays.
“The C.D.C. is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization,” said Samuel Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute. “The steps that it takes to get something like this released are often well outside of the control of many of the scientists that work at the C.D.C.”
...
But the C.D.C. has been routinely collecting information since the Covid vaccines were first rolled out last year, according to a federal official familiar with the effort. The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.
...
“Tell the truth, present the data,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert and adviser to the Food and Drug Administration. “I have to believe that there is a way to explain these things so people can understand it.”
Knowing which groups of people were being hospitalized in the United States, which other conditions those patients may have had and how vaccines changed the picture over time would have been invaluable, Dr. Offit said.
Relying on Israeli data to make booster recommendations for Americans was less than ideal, Dr. Offit noted. Israel defines severe disease differently than the United States, among other factors.
...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.html
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As Chimerica says, Twitter does. Senger is not a fan of Xi.
https://twitter.com/PaulSchlienz/status/1501459143818838018
Paul Schlienz
@PaulSchlienz
So this was the "terrible" thing Michael Senger tweeted that got him thrown off this platform. A day that will live in infamy. Shame on you, Twitter.
Quote Tweet
Jenin Younes
@Leftylockdowns1
· 7h
Twitter has permanently suspended Michael Senger for the tweet below. This is shocking and tragic, and follows on the heels of Daniel Kotzin's (thankfully temporary) suspension. They are trying to silence us, and I assume the same fate will befall me soon.
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1:25 AM · Mar 9, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/PaulSchlienz/status/1501459143818838018
Paul Schlienz
@PaulSchlienz
So this was the "terrible" thing Michael Senger tweeted that got him thrown off this platform. A day that will live in infamy. Shame on you, Twitter.
Quote Tweet
Jenin Younes
@Leftylockdowns1
· 7h
Twitter has permanently suspended Michael Senger for the tweet below. This is shocking and tragic, and follows on the heels of Daniel Kotzin's (thankfully temporary) suspension. They are trying to silence us, and I assume the same fate will befall me soon.
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1:25 AM · Mar 9, 2022·Twitter Web App
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
Yes 29.6%
No 70.4%
2,035,924 votes
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Final results
1:34 AM · Mar 25, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
@elonmusk
Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
Yes 29.6%
No 70.4%
2,035,924 votes
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Final results
1:34 AM · Mar 25, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
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