Ian Mackay, virologist, is also censored in the search results
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People have been connecting online to learn more, but now searching doesn’t work like it did and they are not informed Shutting or modulating down - insidiously - the way a critical function for discovering and referencing perhaps life & death information, is it not censorship?
I would agree with your definition of censorship. I suppose I just need more evidence that it is occurring here on Twitter. I type in Coronavirus and other related search words and get a blended feed of news agencies, academics, activist citizens and normal people.
And the views range wildly from moderate views in line with the CDC / WHO etc to “just a flu” views to fringe theorists pointing to more sinister goings on. If I found more homogenous views taking over I would question if censorship was happening
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