Sunday, August 1, 2021

Twitter Suspends Science Writer After He Posts Results Of Pfizer Clinical Test

Now, a former New York Times science reporter, Alex Berenson, has been suspended for simply citing the results from a clinical trial by Pfizer and raising questions over any vaccine mandate.

In the meantime, the White House accused both the Washington Post and New York Times of irresponsible reporting on Covid, but surprisingly Twitter has not suspended those accounts.

Twitter is unwilling to let people read or discuss viewpoints that it disagrees with as a corporation.

His latest offense against Big Tech came when he posted the results published by Pfizer of its own clinical data.

Wakana addressed the same issue with a New York Times tweet stating "Breaking News: The Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be spread by vaccinated people as easily as the unvaccinated, an internal C.D.C. report said." That sent Wakana into all caps: "VACCINATED PEOPLE DO NOT TRANSMIT THE VIRUS AT THE SAME RATE AS UNVACCINATED PEOPLE AND IF YOU FAIL TO INCLUDE THAT CONTEXT YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.".

The solution to bad speech is more speech, not approved speech.

Twitter serves the same communicative function between consenting parties; it simply allows thousands of people to participate in such digital exchanges.
 

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/07/31/twitter-suspends-science-writer-after-he-posts-results-of-pfizer-clinical-test/ 

No comments: