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Originally Posted by curves2000
I don't know if I am baiting anyone? People can choose to respond or not. Who's Mark? Zuckerberg?
I just put my very long $.02 into the conversation and people can discuss. People have been discussing Social media, Trump and censorship and more for a long long time.
The last day or two a massive conversation has been had globally over WhatsApp's new privacy policy and how they work with their Facebook counterpart. Literally millions of people are asking, "wtf, how much power do they want and need?" Nothing to do with Trump or anything else.
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This stuff just infuriates me.
I’ve had the ivermectin info sent to me weeks ago.
What are the odds that this group of medical professionals are
the most credible, reliable and knowledgeable source of this drug?
I am going to say pretty low.
Vetting what is being spewed in the ether about this drug takes a few quick questions.
What are the unintended side effects or consequences of taking this drug?
Who and a what state of a Covid infection should take it?
Without these kind of overriding questions the whole topic is vulnerable to toxic oversimplifications.
It’s being proliferated with the insidious trope of...
“I’m not telling you I think this is true, this is just what I heard.”
This enables the BS notion that we can all go back to normal and if we get Covid, let’s just pop an ivermectin pill to eliminate the side effects.
Does this mean it doesn’t have application in people who are dying of Covid? No.
Try investigating the statement
“ivermectin neurological side effects”
I’m nowhere near the person to properly evaluate ivermectin either, but I try to think critically about topics like this.
Try critical thinking before posting nonsense like ivermectin is some secret insider information that Twitter is censoring that could “save the world”.
There is also a clear answer for social media garbage.
Accountability. Trump was finally held accountable.
Attach accounts to a persons identity. Make everything more like LinkedIn.
If they want or need anonymity, then establish criteria for that in the business model. If people don’t like it, don’t use the service. The consequences of not making people accountable for what they say publicly are self evident.
There is a difference between misinformation and disinformation.
Yeah, people make mistakes and need the space to learn from them.
But... when the same mistakes are repeatedly made learning isn’t happening.
It becomes much like the statement...
“never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.”
(To be clear I am not saying you are stupid either.)
Eventually stupidity is just reckless and indistinguishable from malice.
Ivermectin is just another COVID example of the HL Mencken quote:
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”