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Dont know. I just heard that any anti 5g stories or protests were forbidden to be published.
This is where Chinese whispers is dangerous. Certain platforms have been removing examples of 'fake news' where they're spouting that 5G causes Covid etc.

Real reports, like from @davids below, are common and easy to find. T
There's a big difference between legitimate concerns over 5G until thorough scientific study, and people saying it's a weapon etc. with absolutely no scientific proof.

Well, actually far from proof but it going against the actual science.
 
This is where Chinese whispers is dangerous. Certain platforms have been removing examples of 'fake news' where they're spouting that 5G causes Covid etc.

Real reports, like from @davids below, are common and easy to find. T

There's a big difference between legitimate concerns over 5G until thorough scientific study, and people saying it's a weapon etc. with absolutely no scientific proof.

Well, actually far from proof but it going against the actual science.
Saying there is a blanket ban,just helps to feed the conspiracy narrative.
 

Saying there is a blanket ban,just helps to feed the conspiracy narrative.
There is a blanket ban on social media now. In fact I was reading yesterday that facebook are currently applying a new filter to content for just that, to remove certain news or discussions if they deem it fake news. In this instance it is political based.

I started s thread in current affairs about this but we are entering an age of weaponised information now. People get their news from social media these days and we are now seeing that being restricted .

If it is completely fear mongering then o can understand, much like the 5g story. You saw what happens when that is allowed to spread. But bigger picture here, governments who control the internet so to speak as the Tories are trying to do since Teresa may can blanket ban anything they don't want being posted potentially.
 
The main problem is that with CGI and the advances in voice synthesis you can make a video of anybody saying anything that will fool 99% of those who watch.
Common sense has to come into play
All the world's governments crashing their economies using a phantom virus
(even those who have decades of conflict)
in unison is a bit of a stretch
 
There is a blanket ban on social media now. In fact I was reading yesterday that facebook are currently applying a new filter to content for just that, to remove certain news or discussions if they deem it fake news. In this instance it is political based.

I started s thread in current affairs about this but we are entering an age of weaponised information now. People get their news from social media these days and we are now seeing that being restricted .

If it is completely fear mongering then o can understand, much like the 5g story. You saw what happens when that is allowed to spread. But bigger picture here, governments who control the internet so to speak as the Tories are trying to do since Teresa may can blanket ban anything they don't want being posted potentially.

You can expand on that to include the full IHRA anti semitism definition, including and especially the 'anti Israel = anti semitism' bit. Any crticism of any atrocity by the IDF under instruction from the Knesset is anti semitic, applied to social media platforms.
 
You can expand on that to include the full IHRA anti semitism definition, including and especially the 'anti Israel = anti semitism' bit. Any crticism of any atrocity by the IDF under instruction from the Knesset is anti semitic, applied to social media platforms.
Funny you should mention that.

Noticed last week that none of our media outlets had ran the story that Israel was attacked by Gaza (who killed 7) so Israel bombed Gaza for 8 days straight in retaliation.

A complete media blackout on that matter for some odd reason.
 

I wonder if we'll ever discover what in the brain leads us to believe stuff like conspiracies, ghosts, gods etc? It is definitely something, because they all have the same traits, like end-of-the-worlders and religions all bring centred around our destruction and the salvation of only those in the know. I remember reading that atheists display the same brain patterns in believing atheism that religious people display in believing in a god.

I reckon it is just because our intelligence hasn't kept pace with the growth in our brain capacity and we are still stuck with our primal instincts and innate tribalism.
 

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