Guest Post by Thorsteinn Siglaugsson
This morning, a friend published a short post on Facebook, drawing attention to how it seemed to him the company was not even bothering any more to refer to the so-called “independent fact-checkers” to justify their censorship. He had re-posted a clip where Fox reporter Tucker Carlson discussed the negative effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines, referring to peer-reviewed studies. The clip is available here.
No reference to the twenty-something undergrads at the censorship agencies, just this label:
How on earth can peer-reviewed results constitute “misinformation”? The peer review process isn’t perfect, far from it, but after all it is the accepted standard. The first conclusion therefore is that the word “misinformation” does not refer to misinformation any more, it simply refers to any information the censor wants suppressed. The word has become meaningless.
The action, then, is suppression of a certain kind of information, but what about the reason? The reason for suppressing uncomfortable information about Covid-19 vaccines is that seeing this information may “make some people feel unsafe”. What does this mean precisely?
There are at least two possibilities, and here I’m talking only about those who believe in the narrative. The first is that people may feel unsafe seeing evidence that contradicts what they’ve been told by the authorities, the mainstream media and the social media giants; the “safe and effective” mantra. Watching Tucker Carlson’s review of the evidence might make people feel unsafe, uncertain, sceptical towards the propaganda relentlessly pushed towards them; this is what happens when you discover you’ve been deceived by someone you trusted. You feel unsafe for you don’t know who to trust any more.
Secondly, people may feel unsafe because their worldview is being threatened, while they still cling to it with all their might. They still believe the lies; they have no doubts, but discovering how some other people do not share their view of the world makes them frightened. Perhaps they’ve taken part in ostracising others, ridiculing them, wishing them harm, fearing for themselves if the truth comes out. Perhaps they suspect, deep down, that they are being deceived, but fear the consequences of the full realisation.
They may even have been so thoroughly brainwashed that they actually believe young and healthy people, an age-group with a demonstrated Covid mortality rate on par with the flu, will drop like flies in case they get infected, like this unfortunate young woman, willing to risk her life to protect her ill-advised belief.
Notice the wording in Facebook’s label. It does not say the alleged “misinformation” will make people unsafe, it says it will make them feel unsafe. When your view of the world is threatened you may certainly feel unsafe, but that doesn’t mean you are any less safe than you were before.
If someone points out to you the bridge you cross every day, and have been assured is well built and robust, is rusting away and may collapse any day, you may feel unsafe in the way you will doubt some other things you’ve been led to believe by the same people who assured you of the safety of the bridge, but avoiding that bridge will surely make you safer in the future.
If you find out that a medication you’ve been led to believe is safe and effective actually isn’t, you may feel unsafe in the same way. But avoiding that medication will surely make you safer in the future.
Having to think may make you feel unsafe, but it will not make you unsafe. A true belief is the result of thinking; to arrive at the truth we must have all the relevant information we can come by, evaluate it and in the end come to an informed conclusion. It may not hold forever, new evidence may present itself, we may have to reconsider our conclusion.
This is the essence of science, the prerequisite of progress, and also the prequisite of making the best and safest decisions for ourselves.
Facebook’s aim is not to make their users safe. Their aim is to make them feel they are safe, to prevent them from discovering challenging information, prevent them from thinking. They are the apostles of a new god, and his followers do not ask him to deliver them from evil, they ask him to deliver them from truth.
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Nice to see the NYT is having an event this month that features four of the biggest criminals on the planet.
Hard work and sacrifice , bruh… that’s how you make it in muh free market…reeeee
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Notice how they all look like Trudeau?
All four are Jews .What a surprise.
Q: What do all four have in common? (Other than their politics).
A. Circumcised by a rabbi?
Even Janet?
That was the joke.
Wasn’t this coined the “money laundering starter pack”?
“Simply put, 400 K have died of something which is not Covid, Long Covid, nor overdose/accident/suicide. When we examine where those people are dying, they tend to be in US counties where vaccination rates are higher. A relationship which did not exist for 2020/21-Covid.” –
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Don’t worry Schumer’s gonna replace them with spicks
Why the hell would anyone use facebook, it is a bastion of liars?
Marketplace. I keep an account just for this and only this , although anon..
I just use the devil to help me, otherwise I don’t let him into my life, but you know he is watching.
Meta-assbook. twatter, dick-tock, yup, stuff for someone else.
There are other channels supposedly decent but not for me.
Would not doubt if Craigslist is linked in somehow.
Not going to matter when the hinternet goes down, stay local, low tech.
100 percent correct.
Don’t use the internet says Oldturd on the internet.
Facebook you dumb f***.
“Would not doubt if Craigslist is linked in somehow.”
Hmmm. ANY doubt?
After reading there, post in ‘politics’ and/or ‘rants-n-raves’.
Yeah, that is the only reason I joined here not to long ago as craigslist seems to be dying. Wish I could have joined earlier I would have saved big time money, if they had let me join sooner. I do rather enjoy spreading memes and such now that I’m there.
Bolshevik vermin want to kill American babies and replace them with cheap foreign labor.
Fact .
Any questions?
Schumer cries about lack of reproduction, but loves same-sex marriage….
Senate Votes 62-37 to Advance Bill That Would Protect Same-Sex Marriage – Here Are the Republicans Who Voted with Democrats
Chuck Schumer: Mitch McConnell and I Have ‘Remarkably Similar’ Vision for Future of Republican Party
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/16/chuck-schumer-mitch-mcconnell-and-i-have-remarkably-similar-vision-for-future-of-republican-party/
i wish they would have known who/what they were dying for.
You expect me to read about this censorship bullshit and you won’t even mention jews? Fuck the fuck off.
This is what happens when you tell a child his or her whole life how special they are. They believe they know everything and are the epitome of evolution. From what I’ve seen all these little petty tyrants are destroying this country.
Why are you dragging the Jewish population into this?
In the hotel elevator, a woman in a flowery dress and an old fashioned head cap enters and I am thinking to myself: either this is the weirdest nun outfit I have ever seen, she is a historical enactor in a nearby museum or she is Amish or something. Should I ask?
As she exits on the same floor, I ask “Are you an Amish woman?” She says: “No, we are Mennonite.” She is probably used to looks of bewilderment of people who have never heard of that, so she adds: “It’s very similar.” I say: “I am a little bit familiar with that. I have watched youtube videos of beautiful singing of Mennonite women. Is it strange for you to stay in a hotel like this (her in the froofy dress, me in T-shirt, shorts and flip flops)?” She waves her hands and says “Nah! It’s fine” as if she wants to say that they are not THAT removed from society or from civilization.
I end the conversation by “I am happy for you, that you live your life like that, and that you uphold strong family values. The world needs more of that.” She seems genuinely happy that I said that and responds: “That is very kind of you.”
We wished each other a nice day and parted ways. Just a brief, friendly interaction between strangers that made the day a tiny bit better.