Posted on 10/06/2020 12:08:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Tech giants Twitter and Facebook both cracked down on President Trump comparing COVID-19 to the seasonal flu on Tuesday, resulting in the president calling for a repeal of Section 230.
“Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu,” Trump tweeted. “Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!”
Twitter put up a warning that shields the tweet from followers: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.” […]
Shortly after Trump was censored by both Facebook and Twitter, Trump tweeted, “REPEAL SECTION 230!!!”
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 states that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” …
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And yet I still got to read the message here on Free Republic! Guess these social media folks are becoming less relevant.
Trump should keep RE-TWEETING it over and over again.
“Trump was censored by both Facebook and Twitter.”
Facebook and Yellow Pages are useful as directories of businesses.
Is Trump aware that all these providers on the IT side of phone, fiber, and communications train at a US Army base in Virginia.
Mr. Trump - your own CIA, NSA, have trained personnel in big tech.
Trump better fire the Agency heads and get control of the National assets who watch this Bull Dung! Truml use your NSA and turn off Big Tech.
Been there and done that.
Mr Trump declare War ring ton on them.
100% accurate. estimated dead for the 1918 flu was 500,000 to 675,000. And it was mainly the young died. And for the 57-58 Asian flu it was 116,000 (equivalent to about 200k today, since the pop. was about half). And while an estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season only 94 children (under 18) out of over 210,000 deaths have died due to COVID-19 (reported 10–02) Meanwhile, close to half of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities, with up to 70% of deaths occurring in nursing homes. Documentation and more here and here.
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