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Covid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 7, 2023 5:38 pm ET | Bret Swanson

Posted on 07/08/2023 1:30:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In the wake of the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle explosion, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman knew that the truth would both fuel progress and soothe the nation’s sorrow. “For a successful technology,” he said, “reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

For three years, pandemic public relations mocked nature, generating fear, illness, inflation and excess death beyond what the virus caused. Digital censorship supercharged the effort to hide reality, but reality is getting its day in court.

On July 4, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty temporarily blocked numerous federal agencies and the White House from collaborating with social-media companies and third-party groups to censor speech.

Discovery in Missouri v. Biden exposed relationships among government agencies and social-media firms and revealed an additional layer of university centers and self-styled disinformation watchdogs and fact-checking outfits.

Elon Musk’s release of some of Twitter’s internal files revealed that up to 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were embedded with social-media companies. The agents mostly weren’t fighting terrorism but flagging wrongthink by American citizens, including eminent scientists who suggested different paths on Covid policy.

The results of these relationships? Twitter blacklisted Stanford physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya for showing Covid almost exclusively threatened the elderly, severely reducing the visibility of his tweets. When Stanford health policy scholar Scott Atlas began advising the White House, YouTube erased his most prominent video opposing lockdowns. Twitter banned Robert Malone, a pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology, for calling attention to the vaccines’ dangers. YouTube demonetized evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, who suggested the virus might be engineered and predicted vaccine-evading variants. And those are only a few examples.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigtech; censorship; coverup; covid; freespeech; internet; socialmedia; tyranny

1 posted on 07/08/2023 1:30:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When you have introduced a scam you need to follow it through as truth


2 posted on 07/08/2023 1:32:19 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

That's thinking white.

3 posted on 07/08/2023 1:33:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We are still in an era where “science” says: “Hey, I think we can get away with this ...”

You know that’s not sustainable. But they don’t seem to care: the money’s good.


4 posted on 07/08/2023 1:35:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Whoa! Backpeddling so hard the chain fell off fellas.


5 posted on 07/08/2023 1:37:13 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

wsj admits they were wrong …..


6 posted on 07/08/2023 1:40:27 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We knew early on that older folks were most vulnerable...and we failed miserably. Cuomo in particular...who told Trump to stay out of this...the governor’s are in charge...but then asked for Trump to provide everything but the kitchen sink.


7 posted on 07/08/2023 1:46:34 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Tony Fauxi meets Algore!
8 posted on 07/08/2023 1:49:52 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are persistent… started late fall of 2019 and continues.


9 posted on 07/08/2023 2:12:07 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: blackdog

That was my thinking, too.


10 posted on 07/08/2023 2:52:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: blackdog

“Whoa! Backpeddling so hard the chain fell off fellas.”

They are also making bunches of excuses as to why they got everything wrong. They are claiming that it was all a mistake when it was actually done on purpose.


11 posted on 07/08/2023 3:07:51 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: ronnie raygun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FEADB8deeok


12 posted on 07/08/2023 4:00:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The logical next step is “What are they lying about now?”

Everything .

13 posted on 07/08/2023 4:45:13 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The big story here is that this is in the WSJ!!

Granted, it’s the opinion page....


14 posted on 07/09/2023 5:16:38 AM PDT by GrannyAnn ( )
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