Covid
GreenMedInfo founder Sayer Ji on Instagram censorship: “I would rather be deplatformed than to censor myself”
Ji warns that the fear of being deplatformed by Big Tech is conditioning people to self-censor.
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases public affairs specialist “retires” after anti-Fauci online posts
Crews left after posts critical of Fauci were revealed.
Facebook unpublished page of anti-lockdown reporter Avi Yemini
Facebook didn’t give a reason.
Facebook assures Australian government it’s making it hard to find vaccine-skeptic content
Australia wants Facebook to do more.
Oxford researchers call for Facebook to fact-check even more “coronavirus misinformation”
Facebook already applies warning labels to 98 million coronavirus posts each quarter and dissenting ideas are already under threat.
UK council bans workers from smoking at home during lockdowns
Now people are working online, employers are dictating what employees can do at home.
NYU suspends party-going student over COVID rules, even though he’s learning online, never goes on campus
And they won’t refund his $36,000.
New Australian “pre-crime” bill allows authorities to arrest citizens for dissent, online “conspiracies”
Citizens who haven’t even commited a crime can be locked away under new proposals.
New UK law forces citizens to download contact tracing app or provide personal info to use certain businesses
The erosion of people’s civil liberties continues.
Facebook to stop recommending all health-related groups
Facebook has already deleted over 1 million.
White House coronavirus advisor slams YouTube censorship, says censoring science is like a third-world country
Big Tech companies have a veto over the public conversation.
Bill Gates: There needs to be a “discussion” about how social media can stop spreading “crazy” conspiracies
Yet, Gates is also skeptical of official advice from the CDC and, online, people are being censored for going against the CDC.