China was willing to pay *one* Harvard department head up to $750k/year + $1.5M down to get him under their thumb — if you think there aren't interests like this constantly looking out for high-leverage humans to pocket, you're not paying attentionhttps://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800442646/acclaimed-harvard-scientist-is-arrested-accused-of-lying-about-ties-to-china …
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Exactly. If I had doubts about WHO before, how much less could I trust them knowing that they're isolated from pushback or criticism on major platforms? Their job will become more and more keeping Google and China happy, less and less organizing world health.
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why not try to make India and Brazil into regional powers that can counter Chinese influence?
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It gives the the rapacious capitalist in me confusing feels to see the soi disant progressive leadership of megacorps, whose control and reach would make William Randolph Hearst blush, use those powers to de-platform and ostracize wrongthink. e.g.
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Every day I sympathize with the founders' republicanism a little more
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WHO is definitely not the definitive authority on all things Health related. CHINA has definitely co-opted WHO to spread communist propaganda.
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there's been a constant chorus from all quarters telling YouTube to censor various things for years, though ever since (ad-displaying) media outlets like the WSJ focused on brand ads being displayed next to questionable content, YouTube has acquiesced
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a combination of the techlash meme, Russia's real but probably not super effective efforts in 2016, and Republican hostility to SV liberalism has turned tech giants into content cops on a scale never before seen
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you also forgot deniability
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