I have been battling against your heavy-handed tendencies toward censorship for the last year. The current, most egregious example is the claim of the lab origins of the Coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan; last year, I was banned from making any utterances about this claim, despite having a well-researched and carefully thought through position that I developed after performing my own numerical analysis of publicly accessible CDC ILI data and reading a number of scientific papers and other materials from a broad arrange of sources (including experts whose viewpoints differ from your own, and also policy papers from China’s own Military leadership.)
Now, you’ve been forced to backtrack and stop banning these ideas (because they are now finding traction as new facts are being disseminated which undermine what you asserted last year was “true”.)
Because what I was saying last year conflicted with your left-leaning “belief system” (which in this specific case has now been revealed as both a wrong and corrupt belief–but it is just the first of several such “proofs” that you should take care to learn from–more examples are coming) you stopped me from saying it; and as such, you actually delayed the penetration and discussion of key ideas–ideas that could have saved actual lives–from being debated and making their proper way into the body politic.
Now you have seen fit to arrogate unto yourselves the power to limit POLITICAL speech; to ban from your platforms those people who make utterances that conflict with your political ideologies. It is worth noting that if Facebook had been acting in 1776 as it does today, there would never have been an American Revolution or a U.S. Constitution; you people would have prevented that from happening. The irony is that these freedoms allowed your corporation to exist and evolve, and now you do your best to strangle them out of a misplaced idea of “doing good.”
The same fallacy of arrogant reasoning is proving true about immune-system boosting non-vaccine therapies (HCQ, Ivermectin, etc.); and the same is true about the suppression of claims, facts, papers and arguments showing that the current experimental “emergency use authorization” injections from Pfizer, Moderna, etc. are actually having statistically significant harmful outcomes, simply on the basis of adverse event comparisons to past vaccine applications that were administered at large scale.
The idea that natural immunity now no longer matters–that only artificially created immune responses through “vaccines” are “valid” — is another toxic idea that will have lasting long term negative effects on humanity. Our immune systems have been evolving over tens of millions of years; it is arrogant to presume that man-made vaccines are necessarily and always “better” than what nature has evolved for us.
Your tendencies toward idea- and viewpoint suppression are leading the world’s governments in the direction of “medical apartheid”, which is as toxic and repugnant an idea as has ever existed on the face of Earth.
Those of us who are firmly opposed to such toxic ideas–who have seen what similar ideas have done to destroy and harm humanity throughout history–have an inherent, God-given and Constitutionally protected right to engage in speech and debate to allow us to persuade people of our views; you must not be allowed as a “platform” to inhibit or influence the distribution of ideas to suit your own ideologies.
Your algorithms and implicit biases are actually harming people by preventing competing ideas from being debated, because you think you have an exclusive ownership of ‘truth’. When I was younger and less wise, I made the same errors that you make now; but with age has come wisdom. I understand the limits of your knowledge, as well as my own–even though you do not.
I understand at a deep level how Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem places fundamental limits on what you may assert as “factual”. Because of this, I understand that your practice of labelling, fact checking”, and blocking is fundamentally at odds with time-proven practices that lead to healthy societies over the long term. You think you are doing things in the name of good; when in fact the result is exactly the opposite of your intentions.
What you, the elite technocrats who run FaceBook, Twitter, etc. seem to have lost sight of is this: “Truth” is not a commodity that you have an exclusive ownership of; that you “grant” or dole out through your means of control to “ignorant” people.
“Truth” exists independent of your systems of control; free speech and debate are the natural and healthy ways that human beings DISCOVER truth. We as people don’t discover truth by virtue of your labels, fact-checks, algorithms, and censoring. People don’t DISCOVER truth by your handing it to them. Discovering truth is a process that requires us as individuals to DO THE WORK.
What you are engaged in is narrative control through selective propaganda. These authoritarian systems of censoring and control that you have implemented INHIBIT the natural discovery mechanisms for finding truth, and in the long term, are a net negative influence on humanity as a whole.
Cognitivecarbon 