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Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com)
Social network Pinterest has taken a big step to stop the spread of false content that is damaging people's health, which could put pressure on competitors to follow. From a report: Pinterest said Wednesday that it would no longer return any search results, including pins and boards, for terms related to vaccinations, whether in favor or against them. It took that step in late 2018 after noticing that the majority of shared images on Pinterest cautioned people against vaccinations, despite medical guidelines demonstrating that most vaccines are safe for most people. Pinterest told CNBC on Wednesday that it's been hard to remove this anti-vaccination content entirely, so it put the ban in place until it can figure out a more permanent strategy. It's working with health experts including doctors, as well as the social media analysis company called Storyful to come up with a better solution, the company said.
... Jussie Smollet would have gotten away with it. Remember kids : It was those nasty vile alt-right conspiracy theorists who first cast doubt on his way too perfect narrative!
Challenging established orthodoxy is how you progress, contrary to the pro-Censorship crowd. Ideas become widespread because they are challenged and survive those challenges, coming out on top. If your idea is really good, and your way is really best, you don't need to silence your opponents, you can handily defeat them.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
You should not have been modded down. Your response was reasonable and proper. There can be no argument, anybody that supports censorship is a fascist.Their entire pretext is banal and offensive. They assume people have no free will and are forcibly compelled to follow.
Story showing all kinds of problems with vaccines.
If you weren't so "smart" you might listen to someone once in a while and learn something. But you usually post liberal stuff, so I have to assume you are unable to learn anything that might be against "groupthink".
Or maybe the medical community could focus on ensuring only necessary vaccines are given to people.
I have a scar on my arm that's effectively pointless as the TB vaccine is no longer given to teenagers because it's flat out useless in the level of protection it actually provides and how long it provides it for.
There are merits to some anti-vaxxer arguments.
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