“When a private company says take your content elsewhere, no one's First Amendment rights are violated.”
I think the concern is moreso regarding massive corporations like Facebook and Twitter working together in lockstep to remove people from their platform that they ideologically disagree with, thus preventing them from reaching their audience.
If Twitter wants to curate which people are allowed to post, then they are a publisher and should be regulated as such. That also means that they need to be held responsible for everything on their platform that they don’t remove.
That article that that Forbes post cited claims that two (!) people in Georgia drank Chlorine dioxide. There is also no evidence that Trump is the reason they drank it.
2 people out of over 300 million Americans drinking that does not show that this is a widespread phenomenon, like you seem to imply in your post -- "Americans are literally drinking bleach!"
Let's please make sure our comments are backed up by data, it ensures discussions here on HN are productive.
Also, the leading fact checkers, Politifact, refute your claim and state that "No, Trump didn’t tell Americans infected with the coronavirus to drink bleach". It is not very useful to be pushing debunked narratives on Hacker News...
For those unaware, the Washington Post has gone back and retroactively edited their articles from when Trump was president, where they claimed that the lab leak theory was “debunked”
Journalism is dead, and apparently pointing that out on Hacker News will get your comment deleted for “not adding to the discussion”
What about my comment doesn’t add to the discussion?
I find it pretty thought provoking that mainstream news said the Wuhan Lab Theory was conclusively debunked as false, and now there has been a complete narrative shift.
Some, like the Washington Post, have actually gone back and retroactively edited their articles from that time period to hide this fact.
It’s very telling that my earlier comment was flagged.
But I thought le evil orange man said it came from a lab, and therefore it must be false and debunked? That’s what The Washington Post told me to think last year.