Twitter to remove “false” claims about seriousness of Covid-19 (nbcnews.com)

Those of us who talk Covid on Reddit have seen this abused over and over and over and over.

This is the second time in as many months that Twitter has decided they are going to be the arbiter of what's true and what's not.

It's time for more federal regulations around these companies.

Covid is such a serious illness that we need Twitter to censor any claims that say otherwise.

The problem here is that they are cultivating a creepy authoritarian vibe that they will censor anything that is unpopular or disagreeable to a certain class of privileged blue check-marked "influencer" at the expense of everyone else - whether they are correct or incorrect in their truth claim. This would probably be fine on a small forum, but is reckless and borderline dangerous when exercised by an enormous gatekeeping media platform. And I know people strongly feel that a non-governmental company can set whatever policies they like, but it doesn't change the dystopian big brother tone that "wrongthink" can get you cancelled on Twitter. I will not enumerate the many hypocrisies others have pointed out of how other bold, unscientific tweets go completely unenforced.

In this case, I personally happen to agree that the vaccine is not a mass microchipping conspiracy. But do I trust them to get it right each and every time they decide to censor? No.