Twitter is now X

[Jumpin]

method114 said:

Jumpin said:

I’m not seeing anything in your source saying some guy in a White House back room was calling up Twitter to ban this reporter. The article says the Biden administration put pressure on Twitter to stop COVID misinformation.

It sounds like the White House and Twitter were doing their jobs.

The white house is specifically asking why certain people aren't banned yet. Naming this reporter specifically.  If this isn't the white house putting pressure on you I don't know what is. You think it's the Governments job to silence people they believe are spreading disinformation? You do realize the Government is one of the top entities when it comes to spreading disinformation throughout history correct? These are the last people you want in charge of deciding what is or isn't disinformation. I wont even get into all the things they claimed were true only to be proven false later on. 

It's scary to me that people think the Government should be involved in deciding what people can discuss online.

Once again, that’s not what the opinion piece you posted even says. And I didn’t say it was the government’s job to silence people—you literally quoted my post and somehow still got it wrong.

It’s common sense to heed epidemiologists during epidemics and pandemics. Common sense that, during a pandemic, epidemiologists would advise media and platforms against the spread of hazardous misinformation. And common sense for platforms to ban egregious ToS offenders like Alex Berenstain (or whatever that douche-nozzle’s name is).

“Government deciding what people discuss online” is a wide canyon away from a government encouraging platforms to heed epidemiologists during an epidemic. It’s just common sense.

But don’t worry, you’re allowed to find common sense scary.