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bbarn ◴[] No.23219613[source]
COVID-19 is the terrorism of this generation. It's the anything goes, doesn't matter how fair, as long as it's because COVID.
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smt88 ◴[] No.23219798[source]
Terrorism became a US obsession because a little over 3,000 died on our soil. Covid-19 will kill 100,000 or more.

The fear is justified and the extreme prejudice against Covid-19 misinformation (most of which has an agenda behind it) is warranted.

This particular case may go too far, but that has no bearing on whether the other efforts against misinformation are too extreme.

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techntoke[dead post] ◴[] No.23221126[source]
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fbi-erroneously-reveals-id...

Please tell me again how it was justified to attack Iraq, while we continue to bend over for Saudi Arabia?

The fear is not justified, never has been, and it is not the time to sign away your freedoms and believe whatever government agencies and corporations tell you.

Dylan16807 ◴[] No.23221491[source]
That comment's only mention of fear is the fear of covid. What are you insultingly responding to?
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1. techntoke ◴[] No.23221986[source]
> The fear is justified and the extreme prejudice against Covid-19 misinformation (most of which has an agenda behind it) is warranted.

This is the same stuff that was said during Iraq War. That it was justified. Later, we found out that it wasn't and that we attacked a country even though it was Saudi Arabia that was primarily responsible.

Now, they are trying to say that extreme measures, such as censoring people with alternative opinions is justified. Who cares if WHO or whatever else agency disagrees. People are capable of making choices for themselves and doing research. Blocking information, just because it may be inaccurate, doesn't justify it. You then have a centralized power determining what information is accurate like the events that lead to the Iraq War.

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2. Dylan16807 ◴[] No.23222144[source]
> This is the same stuff that was said during Iraq War.

But the person you replied to isn't talking about that.

> That it was justified.

This is like the "they called [genius] wrong" argument. Lots of people claim things are justified. Some of them are wrong, some of them are right. You can't make a blanket judgement.

> Blocking information, just because it may be inaccurate, doesn't justify it. You then have a centralized power determining what information is accurate like the events that lead to the Iraq War.

That fiasco didn't happen because information was being blocked.