Virus-infected President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for the repeal of a decades-old Internet freedom rule after Facebook deleted a post of his comparing COVID to the flu and Twitter slapped a warning on it.
Facebook this morning yanked Trump’s post claiming the flu is more deadly than COVID-19. Twitter added a misinformation warning label about the coronavirus for users to see before being able view the tweet and also blocked it from being shared.
The president’s post incorrectly states that “sometimes over 100,000” Americans a year die from the flu. “Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!”
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Reg 230 absolves Internet companies from responsibility for content than appears on their platforms. It was included in the 1996 Communications Decency Act to help the nascent Internet grow and not be stamped out in the cradle by lawsuits. The rule has come under heavy fire from both the left and right as once tiny companies are now behemoths with outsized influence.
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However, as other Twitter users pointed out, Trump himself is a major beneficiary of the rule. Without it, users including the President likely wouldn’t be allowed to post content at will.
The ill POTUS returned from hospital yesterday after three days of experimental drugs and steroids, saluted from the White House and removed his mask. His comments since have disappointed many who hoped for a different takeaway after having contracted a virus that’s killed over 200,000 Americans.
“He is not doing a service to say, ‘Look at me. Look how well I am doing. Don’t be afraid of COVID,” said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a press briefing Tuesday. “No, be afraid of COVID. It can kill you,” Cuomo said.
REPEAL SECTION 230!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2020
> ” a virus that’s killed over 200,000″
The normal flu is only counted for 6 months. COVID’s time frame is nearly double that now.
Also, the CDC says only a small percent of COVID deaths are solely due to it. Most of the dead where close-to-dying elderly folks and those with multiple diseases.
Add to that hospitals getting paid more money if their patients are said to have COVID and voila: every admit suddenly has the “deadly flu.”
COVID hysteria is a political ruse to control people. WWII Germany use the same hysteria (abetted by laws punishing non-compliance) to create millions of “Good Germans” who went-along-to-get-along.
Coumo knows best. He’s killed thousands.
While Trump receive the best healthcare money can buy — paid for by YOU, Mr. & Mrs. every American taxpayer, he’s trying to dismantle the affordable care act and implement some other healthcare plan that doesn’t include coverage for pre-existing conditions (Including Covid-19); while telling you Covid’s nothing to fear. Don’t let this conman get away with taking away your right to healthcare.
His concerns include his re-election WITHOUT A SINGLE CARE ABOUT YOU. You don’t have to believe me, just pay attention to the facts.
It’s SHIT!!!
Lies from the lunatic left. Please try to keep up to date with reality. The first step is leaving the MSM.
I may not agree with everything Trump. But I agree with this.
Your strategy is tired.
1) Pretend to agree / empathize with the premise
2) Point out some small, innocuous issue
3) Inflate the issue using irrational logic, without any evidence or citations
4) Try to drive people to do nothing or actively oppose
5) Repeat
Good lord, the MF in chief is merely making an appeal to his ardent mask-shunning voters while ignoring the 210,000 dead. Meanwhile, to prove his point, he’s totally willing to infect everyone else. This is truly the most shameful domestic chapter in this country’s history where an incompetent fool and failure and law-flaunter, appealing to the lowest values managed to take a lot of Angry people for an ego-trip regardless of the consequences, much like his 100 yard ego-dash from the hospital this weekend. As of this moment, though, he still doesn’t have the power to stop a free-press to keep him from yelling Fire in a crowded theatre.
Don’s yelling because there’s a fire in the theatre.
But right now Facebook does have the power to stop a free-press. As does Twitter.