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My immediate concern is the often misleading & at times dangerous messaging we've seen from WHO in recent months My long term concern is that tech platforms offloading information gatekeeper permissions this way dramatically increases the bounty for institutional capture of WHOhttps://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1252665361532456960 …
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 …
Are they going to take down failing models of climate change. The science of Yoga. People who lecture you on the salutary effects of innumerable supposed cures for which studies are not available? This is so infuriating. Their control. I feel I am on Cuba.
I get the WHO messed up at first. But this is kind of a wartime scenario. Giving up of liberty for the hopeful benefit of the greater good. Real threats of more death from bad info.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pcmag.com/news/facebook-youtube-to-suppress-anti-vaxxer-content%3famp=true …
It does, it just tends to be a lot cheaper to buy out institutions that aren't trying to be profitable. I'd bet that it's easier to get access to university chemistry projects with significant national security implications than it is to get the recipe for coke
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.
why not try to make India and Brazil into regional powers that can counter Chinese influence?
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
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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