You’re the one who staked out an extremist position that social media platforms are like pen manufacturers and ought to be totally content-neutral — I’m showing you forehead-smackingly obvious examples of why that’s not the case. Examples anyone could agree on.
Now: Do rumors, intrigue, innuendo, speculation, and disinformation about a virus that killed 600,000 Americans fall into that same category of toxic crap no one on their right mind should publish?
Well, pipe bombs are viscerally scary, but they’ve never achieved a death toll that large. Nor have mass shootings. People were told over and over again by some propaganda outlets, including President Trump himself, not to fear a virus with a “99% survival rate.” But multiply that out across the entire population, and it’s a terrible menace.
Speculation about Covid’s origins was an interesting side-topic, but such speculation should have never been allowed to drown out the practical advice of the CDC and others regarding face-masks, social distancing, debunking bogus Covid “cures” and treatments, etc.
Now that we’re nearing the end of the pandemic, we can breathe a bit and open the floor to these more esoteric debates.
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