Why are some congressional Repubs pushing for lower standards governing misinformation?

[JoeB131]

The CIA disagrees with you.

You mean their "low-confidence" assessment based on no evidence?

Correlation not causation.

What's Japan's obesity rate compared to the US?

don't care.

If anything, Japan should have been more seriously affected by Covid. Their population average is older and they are far more concentrated demographically.

But they took this seriously.

They did masks and social distancing.
They closed down non-essential functions, including cancelling the 2020 Olympics.

Now some things are cultural. While Americans hug, kiss, or shake hands when they greet each other, the Japanese just do that little bowing thing that they do. I am sure this did a lot to reduce the spread of the disease.

 

[martybegan]

No, not really. They have more interaction with China than we have.



Ah, and now we get to the meat of it... You just don't like the government telling you what to do.




Bullshit. The resources were overwhelmed as it was. If they hadn't slowed down the spread with lockdowns and mitigations, a lot more people would have died.

Not once they locked down.

I don't like the government exaggerating over the efficacy of preventative measures, and local governments enforcing them without thinking.

That was for the first 2-4 weeks when they thought the mortality rate was hovering in the 3% to 5% rate for the general population. Once that was found to be not the case, younger healthier people should have been let loose to acquire natural immunity and start attenuating the viral mutations. Older people and those with co-morbidities should have been told to continue to isolate while they worked on a shot.

 

[berg80]

That is a price of freedom, it is up to party leaders to dial it down, but neither side seems to know how to do that.

IMO, you've engaged in a false equivalence. No prez in US history has been the kind of dishonest, bombastic flame thrower trump has. Right out of the gate he falsely accused the outgoing prez of not being a US citizen, made racist remarks about Mexican immigrants, and told his rally goers he'd pick up the legal bill if they beat up protesters. I find the "both sides do it" argument is not credible.

 

[berg80]

I know you dont like truth. This is the reply that I expected from you.

What a coincidence. A batshyte crazy conspiracy theory is the kind of assertion I expected from you.

 

[Papageorgio]

IMO, you've engaged in a false equivalence. No prez in US history has been the kind of dishonest, bombastic flame thrower trump has. Right out of the gate he falsely accused the outgoing prez of not being a US citizen, made racist remarks about Mexican immigrants, and told his rally goers he'd pick up the legal bill if they beat up protesters. I find the "both sides do it" argument is not credible.

Trump is worse, but both parties are corrupt and will take your rights in a heartbeat, that is the danger of government. They are both here to divide and conquer, Obama made that very clear when he was president.

They are both key is to get better leaders in both parties, currently neither party has anyone close to a Kennedy or Reagan.

 

[berg80]

Trump is worse, but both parties are corrupt and will take your rights in a heartbeat, that is the danger of government. They are both here to divide and conquer, Obama made that very clear when he was president.

Apparently, we aren't going to be able to agree. Obama made a concerted effort to negotiate and compromise on legislative solutions to the country's problems and was met with nothing but obstruction and a refusal to cooperate. Largely due to McTreason's dictum of making Obama a one term prez.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

No comment on Biden's censorship, just TDS whining. Amazing you derailed your own thread in its creation. Pathetic.

That’s different

It just is

 

[Couchpotato]

You mean their "low-confidence" assessment based on no evidence?

The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

apnews.com

They believe that the lab leak is the most likely source of the virus outbreak over all the other possibilities. So if their confidence level is low for that how low must it be for all the others? But it was cool to kick people off of social media or ban or remove their posts because what they were saying didnt jibe with what you believed. And what you believed was propaganda to mask that the Fauci was funneling money through a private company to fund gain of function research in China to circumvent the ban on such research in the US. Because he knew better.

don't care.

? Obesity was one of the leading comorbidities for COVID. Outside of age it was THE leading comorbidity. General heath was the other which is tied into obesity.

If anything, Japan should have been more seriously affected by Covid. Their population average is older and they are far more concentrated demographically.

The Japanese population is just healthier that the US generally.

The death rate proves my point not yours. Infection rates being lower in Japan would prove yours.

But they took this seriously.

They did masks and social distancing.
They closed down non-essential functions, including cancelling the 2020 Olympics.

Now some things are cultural. While Americans hug, kiss, or shake hands when they greet each other, the Japanese just do that little bowing thing that they do. I am sure this did a lot to reduce the spread of the disease.

The Japanese citizenry is far more compliant than the US one as well. The fact that the US officials were lying through their teeth through most of the pandemic didnt help.

 

[MarcATL]

YouTube to allow creators banned for Covid-19, election misinformation to apply for reinstatement​

Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent.

The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Previously, those types of offenses carried lifetime bans.

“Today, YouTube’s Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of content regarding Covid and elections integrity,” Donovan wrote.

YouTube wrote on X that it will be a limited pilot project open to a subset of creators as well as channels that were terminated under policies the company has since retired. YouTube also said its new reinstatement program will launch soon.

Among channels previously banned under those rules were some associated with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It’s not yet clear whether those channels will be reinstated.

This move follows mounting Republican pressure on tech companies to reverse Biden-era speech policies on vaccine and political misinformation. In March, Rep. Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging YouTube was a “direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime.”

In 2021, YouTube said it would remove content that spread misinformation about all approved vaccines.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/youtube-creators-banned-covid-election-misinformation-apply-reinstatement.html

Back in 2021 YouTube said.........

YouTube bans high-profile anti-vaccine accounts, says it will block all vaccine misinformation​

Google-owned YouTube banned prominent anti-vaccine accounts in an effort to strengthen its policies on misinformation around vaccines, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It will also ban misinformation on all vaccines that are confirmed to be safe by the World Health Organization and local health authorities.

Social media companies have said since the beginning of the pandemic that they’re trying to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation. But falsehoods have continued to run rampant as companies struggle to police the constant flood of posts and uploads to their platforms.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/youtube-bans-high-profile-anti-vaccine-accounts.html

It's more than a little paradoxical how trump's FCC chairman attacks the rights of comedians to ridicule Don on national TV while Repub congressmen spend their time cajoling social media platforms to allow more lies and misinformation to be posted without regulation. Then again, maybe it isn't since misinformation is their stock and trade.

Because they want to push mininformation OP.

Iths tho thimple!

 

[Papageorgio]

Apparently, we aren't going to be able to agree. Obama made a concerted effort to negotiate and compromise on legislative solutions to the country's problems and was met with nothing but obstruction and a refusal to cooperate. Largely due to McTreason's dictum of making Obama a one term prez.

Who did he make concerted efforts with? The ones he told to get in the back of the bus, the people that believed in god, guns and bibles? He pitted American against the evil greedy bankers and then let them all go with no penalties, if you got a business, you didn’t build that. Those are just a few.

I also realize politics is divisive, but Kennedy and Reagan were true leaders, the last of them it seems, no one today seems to be a uniter.

 

[JoeB131]

Not once they locked down.

I don't like the government exaggerating over the efficacy of preventative measures, and local governments enforcing them without thinking.

That was for the first 2-4 weeks when they thought the mortality rate was hovering in the 3% to 5% rate for the general population. Once that was found to be not the case, younger healthier people should have been let loose to acquire natural immunity and start attenuating the viral mutations. Older people and those with co-morbidities should have been told to continue to isolate while they worked on a shot.

We really didn't lock down, either. The MAGAts screamed like stuck pigs and showed up with guns because they couldn't go to Applebee's.

Ah, yes, someone else who thinks that Heroin Addicts with brain Worms are experts in health.

Again, I get why you guys hated measures. It was screaming "TRUMP FAILED" and you guys can't deal with that.

You bitterly ratfucked the country and just can't admit you made a mistake. You doubled down, instead.

 

[martybegan]

We really didn't lock down, either. The MAGAts screamed like stuck pigs and showed up with guns because they couldn't go to Applebee's.

Ah, yes, someone else who thinks that Heroin Addicts with brain Worms are experts in health.

Again, I get why you guys hated measures. It was screaming "TRUMP FAILED" and you guys can't deal with that.

You bitterly ratfucked the country and just can't admit you made a mistake. You doubled down, instead.

The Blue cities sure as hell did, and kept it up way past prime time.

Whatever Trump did, you guys would have said it was wrong.

The whole system in general fucked up, because the "experts" gave in to politics.

 

[SweetTea]

I like science.

No, you only like and agree with Science that aligns with your politics.

YOu like praying to an imaginary sky daddy.

You really should stop attacking people on the basis of religion.

 

[SweetTea]

The whole system in general fucked up, because the "experts" gave in to politics.

Yep, this is exactly what has happened and people like JoeB131 still haven’t figured out that they are being bamboozled by the “experts”.

 

[JoeB131]

Yep, this is exactly what has happened and people like JoeB131 still haven’t figured out that they are being bamboozled by the “experts”.

If we listened to the experts, Covid wouldn't have been as bad as it was.

We had 4% of the world's population and 25% of the Covid Deaths under Trump.

(We still account for 17% of them in total.)

But you guys keep drinking the bleach

 

[berg80]

Because they want to push mininformation OP.

Iths tho thimple!

The suits filed against media companies have revealed a disturbing pattern. Cowardice on the part of the defendants to stand up to an authoritarian government intimidating companies in to settling suits the government had no chance of winning in order to avoid being the target of retribution.

 

[SweetTea]

If we listened to the experts, Covid wouldn't have been as bad as it was.

We had 4% of the world's population and 25% of the Covid Deaths under Trump.

(We still account for 17% of them in total.)

But you guys keep drinking the bleach.

Don’t kid yourself. Democrats, including many of the “experts” couldn’t have cared less about people’s safety. Had they cared, they would have listened to him at the beginning but instead called him racist for threatening to lock down travel from certain countries. Pelosi wouldn’t have encouraged big parades in CA. It is almost like they wanted COVID to take hold here so they could use it as an opportunity to economically harm Trump and a way to get him out of office. They had tried virtually everything else to no avail. Pre-COVID, he was a virtual lock to get re-elected. COVID gave Biden a chance.

 

[JoeB131]

Don’t kid yourself. Democrats, including many of the “experts” couldn’t have cared less about people’s safety. Had they cared, they would have listened to him at the beginning but instead called him racist for threatening to lock down travel from certain countries.

He was a racist for doing that, dummy. The thing that should have happened was that ALL travellers should have been quarantined, not just Chinese Nationals. (It was probalby Americans who brought it into the country, long before anyone knew what it was. )

Pelosi wouldn’t have encouraged big parades in CA.

Naw, Pelosi was calling for compassion while you inbred bubba rednecks were going around beating up Asians. "Hey, Cleetus, I think this one's Korean!" "Don't care, Bubba, he still has slanty eyes!"

 

[sartre play]

There are studies showing concern about it, one even from Harvard. It's comical how you dismiss some studies out of hand and then cling to the gun control one that's been debunked 100 times.

Ivermectin has human uses as well. Lasix is used on horses, does that make it a horse medicine only?

Not a doctor, but not taking any horse medications ever.

 

[SweetTea]

He was a racist for doing that, dummy.

No dummy, it isn’t racist to restrict travel from the county of origin of a virus even if hat country is predominately one race. That is just plain common sense., but you don’t have any.

Naw, Pelosi was calling for compassion while you inbred bubba rednecks were going around beating up Asians.

LOL…She was showing compassion while encouraging get together’s during a virus outbreak. That’s a new one. I don’t recall Asians being beat up on any large scale. That is your imagination or the hyperbole of the propaganda you rely on for your news source.

I know exactly why they got upset, it screwed with their tax revenues on the state level.

How exactly did capping SALT screw with state taxes, other than people fleeing these high tax states? These blue states were(and still are)heavily subsidized because they charge high proprerty taxes for all their pet projects and freebees and then allow property owners to deduct those taxes from their federal income taxes. That means that other federal tax payers are making up for the lost revenue. If somebody in the Hampton wrote off their 100k property tax bills, that is 20k-25k(depending on their effective tax rate) that they don’t pay in federal income taxes. All of that should be included when calculating which states are givers and which states are takers, but it isn’t.