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Reports of censorship during pandemic

OPINION LETTERS

China Suppresses Covid Research in the West

Part of the Western medical-journal establishment is complicit. We know from experience.

March 29, 2022 1:14 pm ET
....
Early in 2020, we wrote a paper estimating Covid cases and deaths in Wuhan, China, based on confirmed cremation operations there. We also used Covid doubling rates published by Hong Kong researchers in the Lancet, as well as China’s figures for deaths in pre-Covid Wuhan. The paper concluded that official Chinese figures at the end of January 2020 were underestimating Covid cases and deaths by factors of 5 to 10, depending on the dates examined.

We sent the paper for posting on the major medical preprint website medRxiv in early February 2020. On Feb. 13 the “medRxiv Team” informed us that it would not post the paper because it was “inappropriate.” The acknowledged purpose of these preprint sites is to post possibly useful findings sooner than the lengthy peer-review process allows. We had never heard of a preprint site refusing a paper from suitably credentialed people. But we have since learned that other researchers have encountered similar rejections when their findings conflicted with the official narrative coming out of China.
...

Assoc. Prof. Mai He

Washington University Medical School

St. Louis, Mo.

Em. Prof. Lucia Dunn

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio


https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-...dical-journal-pandemic-censorship-11648499707
 
https://brownstone.org/articles/can-elon-musk-defeat-the-censors/
Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors?

By Jeffrey A. Tucker April 5, 2022
A remarkable and truth-telling post appeared over the weekend from the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Despite how the platform went to heck under his leadership — presuming he really ever had control — he has done good for the world. For years, he has seemed to object to how his own company was operating. He would defy even his own censors by posting radically pro-freedom links, knowing that his own employees could not really block his own speech.

After long battles, he finally resigned as CEO, not in protest or even in expressed sadness but merely to walk away. Most of us had an intuition as to why. He just couldn’t seem to turn the ship around to make it the inclusive and broad platform it was supposed to be. It had become a canned and highly censored venue for official thought, with legions of heretics purged daily, often at the urging of the Biden administration.

Jack wrote:
the days of usenet, irc, the web…even email (w PGP)…were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.

— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 2, 2022​

Such a statement is highly unusual in this world! I share his nostalgia...
 
April 25, 2022
10:44 AM CST
Last Updated a min ago

Twitter set to accept Musk's $43 billion offer

By Greg Roumeliotis

NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the CEO of Tesla has called his "best and final" offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said.

...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/...pt-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25/

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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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36m
I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
 
Twitter and Elon Musk Strike Deal for Takeover

The deal marks the close of a dramatic courtship and a sharp change of heart at the social-media network

By Cara LombardoFollow
, Meghan BobrowskyFollow
and Georgia WellsFollow
April 25, 2022 2:53 pm ET

Twitter Inc. on Monday accepted Elon Musk’s bid to take over the company, giving the world’s richest man control over the influential social-media network where he is also among its most powerful users.
...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-and-elon-musk-strike-deal-for-takeover-11650912837?mod=e2tw
 
I don't know if it's possible for Musk to achieve his goal of bipartisan free speech on any US platform today. But if he can afford to try, that is his choice. Right now the deal is souring as research reveals that Twitter grossly understated the amount of spam/bot accounts in its SEC filing.
 
I checked it out and Amazon does not allow sales to US addresses. They do whatever the government wants. They stopped selling NAC when the FDA made noise about that. It was being used in hospitals to help Covid patients and a company was looking into tweaking it to make it more absorbable, (and patentable.) Long Covid people are saying NAC helps them recover from their symptoms, too.

https://dailyclout.io/amazon-silencing-dr-wolfs-new-book-the-bodies-of-others/

June 3, 2022 • by Steve Bannon's War Room, Rumble
Amazon Silencing Dr. Wolf’s New Book ‘The Bodies Of Others’

In this video, Dr. Naomi Wolf joins Steve Bannon’s War Room discuss the release of her new book The Bodies of Others. While mainstream media and larger stores such as Amazon are limiting sales, Dr. Wolf shares insight on how/where to find her new book directly from the publisher as well as independent book stores...
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stated-Twitter-suing-violation-Amendment.html
'The lil bird and I are now the best of friends': Journalist Alex Berenson returns to Twitter as social media giant admits he shouldn't have been banned for questioning COVID vaccines
  • Alex Berenson has been reinstated to twitter following an almost 11-month ban
  • Berenson, 49, filed a federal lawsuit challenging his ban for 'violating his First Amendment right'
  • He was banned in August for questioning the effectiveness of COVID vaccines
  • Suit argues that his tweet was a statement of fact, true then as well as now
  • Former New York Times reporter had been a noted mask and lockdown skeptic
  • Now back on the platform, Berenson wrote: 'All in the past, though! The lil bird and I are now the best of friends'
By James Gordon For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:23 EDT, 8 July 2022 | Updated: 22:47 EDT, 8 July 2022
 
Zerohedge is a financial blog. The story linked to something about China. I clicked on it and got this message below.



Warning: this link may be unsafe

https://zerohedge.com

The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with Twitter’s URL Policy. This link could fall into any of the below categories:
  • malicious links that could steal personal information or harm electronic devices
  • spammy links that mislead people or disrupt their experience
  • violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm
  • certain categories of content that, if posted directly on Twitter, are a violation of the Twitter Rules
Back to previous page
Ignore this warning and continue
 
They might have fixed this by now, but I wasn't logged in. When I was on Zerohedge, I saw that bad news about Walmart...They did well in the last downturn. This is not a good sign.
 
https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/white-house-specifically-targeted
White House Specifically Targeted Alex Berenson for Covid Censorship, Newly-Released Documents Reveal

Michael P Senger

Aug 12

According to newly-released discovery documents, Andy Slavitt, acting as Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response under President Biden, specifically targeted Alex Berenson for censorship due to his views on Covid mRNA vaccines. This is the same Andy Slavitt who argued for a strict, Chinese-style “90% lockdown” in July 2020...
 
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Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz
I’ve reached out to Twitter for comment on the platform’s recent spate of removing tweets and banning people’s accounts for sharing factual information, scientific research, and mainstream news articles about the dangers of COVID-19

· Aug 18
Apparently, @TwitterSupport is freezing people's accounts for tweeting research studies, now. Hey, @Medscape, were you aware that your scholarly article is being labeled "COVID disinformation" and that sharing it is apparently a bannable offense?


Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz·
Aug 18

MDs & others sharing info related to the dangers of COVID or promoting the safety of vaccines are saying that Twitter has begun suspending their accounts, removing tweets, & threatening permanent bans. Meanwhile those downplaying COVID’s danger/questioning vaccines have remained

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Graham Walker, MD@grahamwalker
· Aug 17
So I'm spreading misinformation by quoting an AAP paper showing a myocarditis rate of 0.03% in 48,000. Meanwhile Høeg quotes a rate of 3.5% in 301 kids and can't even interpret an EKG. Nice work, Twitter.



Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz

Aug 18
Here Twitter flagged someone sharing a link to a Forbes article on long term effects of COVID as anti vaxx

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Antonio Caramia@Antonio_Caramia
Jul 24
2 days ago I wrote a mini thread about a Forbes article dealing with lymphopenia and T-cell. According to Twitter Forbes article is "misleading" because "Covid vaccines are safe"



Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
·
Aug 18
If you’ve recently had a factual tweet about the dangers of COVID or monkeypox removed or your account threatened feel free to DM me screenshots or a link. Would love to get to the bottom of this


Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
Anothe example
7:36 PM · Aug 18, 2022·Twitter for iPhone


Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz
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Aug 18
Replying to
@TaylorLorenz
Another doctor who quoted a line from a New Yorker story on COVID’s long term harm to pregnant people had his tweet removed for misinformation
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Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』
@ToshiAkima
· Aug 14
@TwitterSupport @twitter. There is nothing misleading about the well researched article published by @NewYorker from which @JOHNJOHNSTONED takes the quote in the tweet. This is ridiculous

https://mobile.twitter.com/TaylorLor...19192465022977
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Brian Vastag@brianvastag

I'm glad she's on this...
@TwitterSafety
is removing tweets that link to journal articles & write-ups of journal articles, including a @medpagetoday article about a large study just published in @TheLancet.
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Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz
· Aug 18
I’ve reached out to Twitter for comment on the platform’s recent spate of removing tweets and banning people’s accounts for sharing factual information, scientific research, and mainstream news articles about the dangers of COVID-19 twitter.com/exceedhergrasp…
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8:12 PM · Aug 18, 2022

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianvastag/status/1560434401888022529?cxt=HHwWgsCtvcW046crAAAA
 
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