Posted on 10/06/2020 10:33:33 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was "less lethal" than the flu.
Mr Trump is at the White House after three days of hospital treatment having tested positive for the virus.
He wrote the US had "learned to live with" flu season, "just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!"
Twitter hid the same message behind a warning about "spreading misleading and potentially harmful information".
Users have to click past the alert to read the tweet.
"We remove incorrect information about the severity of Covid-19, and have now removed this post," said Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook.
An exact mortality rate for Covid-19 is not known, but it is thought to be substantially higher - possible 10 times or more - than most flu strains, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The President has reacted by posting: "REPEAL SECTION 230!!!"
This is a reference to a law that says social networks are not responsible for the content posted by their users.
But it allows the firms to engage in "good-Samaritan blocking", including the removal of content they judge to be offensive, harassment or violent.
If the law were to be repealed, social media companies would face being sued over the edits and changes of user content they made.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I hope the first thing he does after re-election is suspend 230. The day after that happens everyone who was hurt financially should file suit.
They took the bait. They know what is coming if he wins the election. Good bye Section 230 exemption. hello loss of profits (perhaps forever), because they will not be able to compete on equal footing with other news sources.
Of course..silicon valley is working for the Chinese Govt..which will pretty soon be the American Govt if Biden wins
Let’s hope this class action suit brings Big Tech down too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UQLqWJJ8AY&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=RubberRing
And yet, WND has an article stating, “”Lost in the reporting of the World Health Organization’s new estimate that about 760 million people – more than 20 times the confirmed cases – have been infected by the coronavirus worldwide is the impact on the estimated survival rate.
If, indeed, 760 million have been infected at some point during the outbreak and the number of confirmed deaths is about 1 million, the infection fatality rate is only 0.13%.
That’s a little more than one-tenth of 1%, which the WHO says is the rate for the seasonal flu.
The WHO’s estimate in March of a death rate of 3.4% sparked panic worldwide, fueling the catastrophic lockdowns.
A rate of 3.4% is more than 26 times higher than a rate of 0.13%.”
The only thing the left has now is to keep pushing the fear until after election day. I take precautions because of my age and asthma but the rest of the country shouldn’t grind to a halt because of those of us that have medical issues. We can be careful. Let the country keep on keeping on.
Social Media is in the tank for the Dems and the Commies.
So far FascistBook And Twitler are less lethal than Hitler or Stalin but they share the same goals of world dominance and thought control.
Twitter hid the same message behind a warning about “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information”.
Having an opinion different than the “know it alls” is considered streading misleading and potentially harmful information.
Twitter hid the same message behind a warning about “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information”.
Having an opinion different than the “know it alls” is considered sPreading misleading and potentially harmful information.
The day that Twitter and Facebook say that you have to pay $5 a month each to be a ‘member’....a lot of people will ask if the membership is worth the money. I don’t think that day is that far away now.
“just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!”
This was the offending statement... and what the president said is an absolute fact! The CDC has documented and reported that the hospitalization rate for those under 17 years of age is much greater for influenza A than Covid-19 and almost 90% of those that have died are elderly with preexisting conditions.
Not only are these people hopelessly corrupt, they are also f****** ignorant!
WND isn’t exactly the New York Times. Left media doesn’t consider WND to be a credible source.
I just watched that video on Sunday. Fascinating video. This is by far the biggest class action law suit against the Covid Cabal. Charges of fraud, conspiracy, and crimes against humanity will be filed against WHO, government figures, and media. It’s gonna be YUuuuuuuuuge.
That’s okay. I don’t consider the NY Slimes to be credible or the lefties who read it.
But it allows the firms to engage in “good-Samaritan blocking”, including the removal of content they judge to be offensive, harassment or violent.
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...But posts wishing the Pres. to die of Covid were just fine by Twitter.
And BBC makes sure many will hear what Trump posted. Mega publicity.
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Censorship will
Destroy America.
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