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Facebook Refuses to Take Action on Anti-Vaccine Pages

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What I don't like about this whole thing is that facebook is a bit hypocrite (or very much so). They censor images and videos of nudity and violence, but leave these news outlets up, which could potentially threaten mankind as whole, if this nonsense catches on with more and more people.

Having back diseases like polio and far worse ones, is a bigger issue then someones dick-pic.

But this shows again that Mr Zuck and his merry company don't give a flip about humanity or anything else. They just like to keep the Facebook image to be a happy, smiley place, where people are nice to each other, etc...

Why does the game 'We happy few' pop into mind?

They already censor for business reasons. I think their biggest concern is having to spend money on hiring moderators and freedom of speech is useful excuse for their PR.

They already have moderators to filter out the so called garbage. Would it be hard to tell them, that between two boob pictures and a porn video upload they should pull the ban on fake anti-vac news as well?

I remember they banned a photographer (or journalist) at one time, because he shared an iconic image from the Vietnam war, because there was a nude child on the picture.

I wouldn't judge Facebook, if they would ban everything that is harmful to society, from images to fake news, as it is their platform and they can do whatever they want. They aren't under oath to defend and preserve freedom of speech.

That's why they should never use it as an excuse.

Every time they pull a stunt like this, I am more inclined to leave. I'm already unfollowed most of my friends and literally all I get is ads and product placements.

Maybe it's time...

This all comes down to Zuckerberg. He's basically a free-speech absolutist. Within his mind, everybody's smart enough to research this and come to their own conclusions (presumably that vaccines are almost entirely a positive force for public health), and if the ideas aren't popular, well, if you look back far enough, pretty much everything we believe in today was heresy in the past, so, people promoting unpopular opinions should probably have some venue for it (public square) so that people can evaluate it for truth.

In the article on complex.com the author talks about statements of the anti-vaccine group that are "scientificly unproven" and thinks that is sufficient to simply not believe them. This is a logical error since there was never any scientific research investigating the link between vaccines and diseases, but there is data that indicates that there might be a link and the scientific research should be done.

Today I received a message that JFK Junior was banned from facebook because he is urging for scientific research since before the vaccine explosion in 1989 only 14% of children had diseases and today 55% of children have diseases. I suggest to look at the banned video and conclude if facebook was right to ban the request for scientific research here: https://www.real.video/5813705248001

> Today I received a message that JFK Junior was banned from facebook because he is urging [...]

John F. Kennedy Jr. died on 16 July 1999.

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