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At what point does free-speech become not free when it’s continually shut down? We’ve always talked about that you have the freedom of speech, not freedom from speech. Yet things are progressing much further beyond that, to a point where not just that someone disagrees with what you were saying, but they are going to shut down the ability for you to even speak to others about those things. Is there a line we can draw?

What if your cell phone provider or Apple interjects into your text messages to censor what you’re saying? Already you can’t speak your mind on any social platform without censorship, is the only thing left to do to stand on a street corner with a sandwich board handing out flyers? And even then, who says the government will not try to shut you down? Is that the line that we can’t cross?

We may not agree with what someone has to say, but it is absolutely shameful to try to silence someone just because we don’t agree with them.

Unfortunately, people are not taught to question everything they find suspicious or use thorough evidence to back up their claims / counter-claims on what is going on. Ask too many good questions, with evidence and either they ignore your questions, gaslight you or they outright ban you because of their so-called 'guidelines' which they break themselves is also subject to change at anytime.

It is said that Facebook started to censor the official CDC guidelines [0] as 'False Information' as discussed here [1]. It is at this point they have made themselves the arbiter of truth for health guidelines, alongside with entire so-called 'Trusted News Initiative' [2] are (ab)using that as cover to mass-ban accounts that question this; or even question the bans.

One TNI member the BBC also recently spread some false information on to younger audiences themselves, as found by an independent 'fact checker' for once checked their claims right here: [1] Rarely do you see checks on news sites themselves since the BBC's own fact checkers are themselves biased.

Looking at the 'evidence' from several sources and 'fact checkers' may help paint the whole picture rather than a select few dismissing everything with the 'no evidence' label or even labelling official sources as 'false information'.

> We may not agree with what someone has to say, but it is absolutely shameful to try to silence someone just because we don’t agree with them.

When I see this:

> The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation

That looks like a green light for tech companies to mass-ban accounts automatically on what they think is 'disinformation' and use that as cover (Even when they spread it themselves). Seems like Apple wanted to justify surveilling the content of your device to 'protect the children' now Big Tech wants to suspend your accounts to 'to protect audiences and users from disinformation'.

These platforms are the whole problem and it is getting worse. They will never change it will continue. This is just the beginning.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27999720

[1] https://postimg.cc/XpWyN3pf

[2] https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative...

[3] https://fullfact.org/online/Hart-Newsround-report-misleading...

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28149210

It didn't get the attention it deserves (only 27 upvotes as of now)

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