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You claim it's being used as a weapon. How?
You also claim it's misinformation. Prove it.
There are countless times over the past year that the people spreading 'misinformation' ended up being correct.
Fauci lied repeatedly, and you don't think that is using speech as a weapon? Doesn't matter his intent, he purposely mislead the public multiple times.
What happens when it's you being censored?
BTW the conspiracy subreddit was posting about the looming pandemic in December 2019. They had gathered evidence based on medical reports coming out of China.
2019 - they were discussing it. Do you know what people called it then? Misinformation.
What about when they said it came from a lab as early as January 2020? What were they called for over a year?
It wasn't because Trump said so either - he didn't state as much until much later. Trump stating so only cast a bad light overall because of TDS.
Go ahead; tell me it's misinformation while your only source is 'someone said so'.
If you went on the sub, you'd see that anyone posting without sources is called out repeatedly. So gtfo of here with your censorship, because that absolutely is something worthy of a civil war.
Comment by Molesandmangoes at 02/09/2021 at 17:38 UTC
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It's being used to turn people against the academic and professional communities by telling them that their opinion is as valuable as a person with years of experience in a field.
I want to define exactly what you mean by "it" as for what is misinformation. If you're talking about unfettered free speech, then proof would be things like this[1] where these people who received misinformation went on to take action from it causing people to die[2] because they latch on to this misinformation. It's indirectly causing people to die.
You know who else thought a global pandemic was coming in December of 2019? Me and anyone else who saw how China was handling their lockdowns and how quickly it was spreading to other countries. As they say, a broken clock is right twice a day. Many people there seem to think the last election was stolen[3] which is verifiably false so clearly they aren't very good at being right
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/l5rux5/was_the_2020_election_stolen/