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Trump Administration Asks Tech Companies for Help Combating Coronavirus
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The world exists outside Twitter. Most PEOPLE are spreading misinformation by having a heart attack over this virus and scaring everyone around them. That is misinformation.
Well we see how private healthcare has worked with this crisis. So... may as well try government healthcare so cost isnt a barrier to testing and treatment.
Wouldn’t be nice if all Americans had Medicare? It’s amazing a rich country like the US doesn’t offer it.
financial broke people won’t get tested.
in the meantime let’s allow the GOP to take insurance away from people.
financial broke people won’t get tested.
in the meantime let’s allow the GOP to take insurance away from people.
Yes, both of those qualify as misinformation, and now that you’ve intentionally propagated them in the top comment, disinformation. Good job.
Apparently you cannot get reinfected. The person to whom that supposedly happened, upon later analysis, never had it the first time.
*Global pandemic starts in China and spreads throughout the entire world*
"oRaNgE mAn BaD!!!!!!!!!"
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Seems like if I had to protect the nation against a pandemic, tech companies would not be on my short list of companies to call first.
You were likely misinformed by CNN or a blue check liberal on Twitter.
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It's likely that nearly every blue check you follow would be deactivated under such a policy.
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Yeah, that's getting tiresome.
That's literally not what he said. It was taken out of context. Not that Trump doesn't constantly say incredibly stupid things ... but that was not one of them.
Who else should be running healthcare? Companies that want to maximise profits? you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Meanwhile, your guy fired the pandemic response team in 2018 😂
Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team?
As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a potential pandemic.
www.snopes.com
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Censorship is an evil far greater than any virus. One man's disinformation is another man's news and who are you or Twitter to be the arbiter of universal truth? We cannot defeat this disease by becoming the Chinese communists. This attitude has no place in a nation that has championed the free exchange of ideas. Give me liberty or give me Corona virus.
Preach. This “we need to censor people we disagree with” bs needs to stop. Like ok You don’t like trump. Ok. Get over it. Not everything in your life is related to trump and what he does
I may not agree with what President Trump has to say, but I will fight to the death his right to say it. The US Federal Government does not have the power to take away the universal human right of free speech that all men and women created by God have and is protected by the American Constitution under the First Amendment. If Twitter is going to continue to act as a publisher censoring political ideas that they don't like then we must hold the US Federal Government responsible by taking away the liability protections granted to Twitter by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
The Trump administration didn’t start the global pandemic, and I haven’t heard anyone claim otherwise.
But they totally screwed up the response, and lost two months of valuable preparation time that we’ll never get back. If we had instituted surveillance testing back in January we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in right now: we have no idea how widespread COVID-19 is in the US.
The deliberate misinformation and disinformation that has been disseminated by Trump and other officials in this administration has been—and continues to be—dangerous and quite damaging to public health.
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I’m not on Twitter. I don’t know what “blue check liberals” are, and certainly don’t follow any—nor any red check cons.
I’m not on Facebook either, though I’m aware it’s a cesspool of misinformation and worse, disinformation. The fact that that scumbag Zuckerberg thinks it’s perfectly ok to accept money for provably false ads by politicians is disgusting and incredibly damaging to our democracy, imo.
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No administration acts perfectly to all situations but the blame here is on the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese communist government for failing to contain this virus in their research labs, allowing this virus to spread, and covering up the origin of the outbreak by censoring those who try to speak out against them. The Trump Administration has done a fine job of taking necessary cautionary steps to stem the flow of this disease by closing our border to China and Europe, directing the CDC to contain the spread of the virus, and addressing the nation last night to the dangers of this disease urging all Americans to take steps to limit its spread and offering compensation to those workers affected by the virus or who have loved-ones in their care affected by the virus and who cannot afford to miss work.
The danger I see is the continued abuse use of the term disinformation in an attempt to smear an administration that you don't like. You have no authority to dictate what information is disinformation and I condemn your statements and I hope that nobody listens to anything you have to say.
I’m all for the First Amendment. But that has nothing to do with Twitter, does it? And the brilliant First Amendment to our great Constitution doesn’t mean that every Russian propagandist, including Trump, should be allowed to do their dirty work unfettered. Twitter is free to ban anyone and everyone it wants to.
Twitter is free to ban anyone it wants to yes, but doing so means they are a publisher and not a platform and so they do not qualify for liability protections under the section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I already explained how this is a violation of our human right to the freedom of speech but you will not listen to my argument because you are blinded by your obvious bigotry and hatred of President Donald Trump.
The truth hurts, doesn’t it?
Two weeks ago at a news conference Trump said that the number of people infected in the United States is “going very substantially down, not up.” Trump even bragged about the 15 cases at the time on US soil, claiming that “the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero.”
Not one public health official agreed with him, including his own at CDC. It was just happy talk to try to prop up the stock market. Same thing re: Larry Kudlow saying last week that the epidemic was “contained”. Nothing but lies.
PS you have no business calling out disinformation when you’re spreading conspiracy theory lies about the origin of the virus. Disgusting. I condemn your statements and hope nobody listens to anything you have to say.
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Wrong. They ban plenty of people right now, and they’re free to do so. Apparently you are not a lawyer. And no matter how much you love Trump, it can’t change the fact that he’s a pathological liar.
I said that the no Administration is perfect, mistakes were made but not to the level you are implying. It's not disinformation, it's having an opinion. I'm not a journalist reporting the news, I'm allowed to have an opinion even if I can't verify it to be true and that does not make it disinformation. Everything I say is assumed to be my opinion and I shouldn't have to explain that. It's not wrong to assume that it's not a coincidence that a global pandemic started miles away from a one-of-a-kind in China Institute of Virology that has been confirmed to study Corona virus.
Twitter bans people mostly on one side of the political spectrum and not the other, that is political censorship. You don't see the censorship as a violation of universal human rights because it isn't your side being censored and you approve of the censorship. When I say my side I want to be clear that I mean conservatives and not Nazis or white supremacists because I know that that is what you will assume otherwise. I condemn all Nazis and white supremacists just as President Trump did when he addressed the nation following the tragedy at Charlottesville.
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What situation? The situation you are in right now is quite good relative to other countries. Italy’s health care system is collapsing (Drumpf!!!). Merkel stated that 70% of Germans may be infected (Strumpf!). Many on the left seem to be hoping for the worst, but time will tell. I’m hoping for the best.
And I have to laugh at all this “surveillance testing” stuff coming from the left. The party that views illegal immigration as a human right is going to implement mandatory testing without a border? How is that going to work? The honor system? Not to mention it’s believed those who are asymptomatic can be highly contagious.
Well that is obviously based on the premise of a functioning government that actually wants to get **** done.
Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA essentially since it came into being, and that increased under Trump, with "we're gonna replace it with something so much better"... which has never once been described, detailed, summarised or even shown in back-of-an-envelope status. They want to replace <something that exists> with <nothing>.
This is a good point. I mean shutting down all travel from an entire continent is just an everyday normal thing whenever there's a mild cold going around right?
Both are caused by the same root problem. The republican party has no interest in providing health care to the public.
That lack of interest means they attack any attempts to provide better public health care (i.e. the ACA)
That same lack of interest means downplaying real issues and ignoring the problem hoping it will just blow over, when medical experts are saying otherwise.
Twitter has nothing to do with universal human rights. Nobody has a right to tweet. And the First Amendment has nothing to do with Twitter, or Facebook, or any other social media platform.
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Why do you think surveillance testing is a left/right issue? It has absolutely nothing to do with politics.
It’s a public health issue. It’s how you know where there’s an outbreak that can possibly be contained, and how prevalent the virus is. It has nothing to do with borders or immigration.
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Twitter, Facebook, and other social media publishers are the new digital town square which is the place where political discussions happen today. If we don't protect our right to free speech on social media we are going to lose it. Twitter, Facebook, and other social media websites need to quality as platforms to receive liability protection from the federal government. By the federal government granting liability protection to these social media publishers whose terms of service are biased against conservatives they are violating the universal human rights to free speech of all social media users around the world by continuing to grant section 230 of the Communications Decency Act liability protection. This is against the law because the First Amendment guarantees that the federal government does not have the power to sensor political speech, which is what they are doing by granting liability protection to these publishers. Twitter and Facebook bias their content to fit their political agenda by banning contributors that go against their political agenda. The New York Times for example biases its content against conservatives too, but this is not a violation of the First Amendment because they are able to be held liable for any misleading content generated on their publication. Twitter and Facebook must allow conservatives the same opportunity to use their publication or we must force the federal government to comply with the our human right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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1.3 million people die each year from traffic accidents but we still can't get some people to do basic things like not drive drunk, obey traffic laws and wear seat belts
4000 people die from a new virus and they're out buying toilet paper and hand sanitizer like the world is ending.
It's nothing but the new panic incited by the media for ratings 🤦♂️
4000 people die from a new virus and they're out buying toilet paper and hand sanitizer like the world is ending.
It's nothing but the new panic incited by the media for ratings 🤦♂️