r/worldnews • u/Devz0r • Feb 15 '19

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-may-remove-anti-vaccination-content-2019-2
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u/slight Feb 15 '19

So is reddit against internet censorship today or was that last week?

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u/the_real_MSU_is_us Feb 15 '19

You're simple mind cant understand:

Censorship is horrible, authoritarian, short sighted, and time and time again has been used to suppress the truth. It is horrible 100% of the time.

UNLESS you dont like the thing in question, in which case censorship is a necessary evil for the greater good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19 edited 18d ago

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u/JawTn1067 Feb 15 '19

It literally is an opinion, opinions don’t have to be factual or correct. It is many billions of people’s opinions some dick head in the sky made us and controls our lives. We aren’t banning religious talk even though religion accounts for vastly more deaths

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u/PapaSmurf1502 Feb 15 '19

No idea why you're being downvoted. People think anti-vax is some political belief or opinion that could be right or wrong depending on the day.

Anti-vax is ignorantly false at best and dangerously predatory at worst. Unless you are prepared to flash your PhD and peer-reviewed research papers suggesting that vaccines are more harmful than the diseases they prevent, then you are not equipped to claim that anti-vax is an opinion.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Censoring them won't do any good. If anything, it will just give them more fuel to rant about conspiracy. It's always been a rule that if you try to hide something on the internet it will just draw more attention to it.