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To: Snowybear

Why are you deleting FB stuff?


1,957 posted on 02/15/2019 10:01:47 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

> Why are you deleting FB stuff?

In case MA tries to implement the gun bill that’s in the NY and IL legislature. If they pass you would have to give up your social media user names and passwords to get or renew a license.

-SB


1,982 posted on 02/15/2019 10:33:24 AM PST by Snowybear
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To: Black Agnes

So, did you see this Schiffty is pushing Facebook and Google to sensor anti-vaxxers. He sent letters yesterday 2-14-19 “WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), sent a letter to Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officers of Google and Facebook, respectively, to express concern that the company’s platforms including YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, are surfacing and recommending information that discourages parents from vaccinating their children, contributing to declining vaccination rates which could reverse progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases.

“As a Member of Congress who is deeply concerned about declining vaccination rates, I am requesting additional information on the steps that you currently take to provide medically accurate information on vaccinations to your users, and to encourage you to consider additional steps you can take to address this growing problem,” Schiff wrote in the letter. “I was pleased to see YouTube’s recent announcement that it will no longer recommend videos that violate its community guidelines, such as conspiracy theories or medically inaccurate videos, and encourage further action to be taken related to vaccine misinformation.”

The scientific and medical communities are in overwhelming consensus that vaccines are both effective and safe. There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling diseases, and the dissemination of unfounded and debunked theories about the dangers of vaccinations pose a great risk to public health.

In 2015, Rep. Schiff first introduced the bipartisan Vaccines Save Lives resolution, recognizing the importance of vaccines and immunizations in the United States. The resolution sends a message of unequivocal Congressional support for vaccines and urges parents, in consultation with their health care providers, to follow scientific evidence and the consensus of medical experts in favor of timely vaccination for the well-being of their children and surrounding communities.

The full text of the letters are below:
https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/schiff-sends-letter-to-google-facebook-regarding-anti-vaccine-misinformation


2,005 posted on 02/15/2019 11:04:34 AM PST by azkathy (We the people are FED UP-pun intended)
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