Elon Musk has abandoned Twitter’s COVID-19 misinformation policy after vowing to make the site a free speech champion. The Telegraph has the story.
“Effective November 23rd 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” a notice on its website reads.
A page on Twitter’s website titled “COVID-19 misleading information policy” now redirects users to Twitter’s user help homepage.
That page previously said: “Content that is demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm (such as increased exposure to the virus, or adverse effects on public health systems) may not be shared on Twitter.”
Other, more generalised policies on posting deliberately false or misleading information on Twitter are still listed on the company’s website and appear to be being enforced.
Meanwhile, the maker of the Fortnite series of games has come to Musk’s defence after the Twitter owner accused Apple of threatening to pull the social network from its App Store.
Mr. Musk attacked the iPhone maker with a flurry of tweets on Monday, saying the company had cut its Twitter advertising and threatened to bump the social network from Apple’s App Store.
The SpaceX chief executive asked whether Apple hated free speech, criticised its app fees and even pondered whether the tech giant might go after another of his companies, Tesla.
Mr Musk, 51, also posted a meme suggesting he planned to “go to war” rather than pay the 30% fee.
Tim Sweeney, the chief executive of Epic Games, which makes the hugely successful Fortnite series, gave his support, calling Apple “a menace to freedom worldwide”.
In 2019, Epic sued Apple for anticompetitive behaviour with its App Store, but a judge ruled largely in favour of the world’s most valuable company last year.
Both Epic and Apple are appealing the case after the judge also said Apple should allow developers to link customers to their own payment systems.
Mr. Sweeney said: “Epic attempted to open discussions for five years, from 2015 to 2020. Apple would never talk. This is chronicled in the public record of the Epic v Apple antitrust trial. Apple is a menace to freedom worldwide. They maintain an illegal monopoly on app distribution, they use it to control American discourse, and they’re endangering protesters in China by storing sensitive customer data in a state-owned data center.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ron DeSantis has waded in to the row, saying: “If Apple responds to that by nuking them from the App Store, I think that would be a huge, huge mistake and it would be a really raw exercise of monopolistic power that would merit a response from the United States Congress.”
This article has been updated.
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Oh feck off Teddy, you tosser!!
Yep, that’s it Mogs. I’ve just passed this story around a couple of WhatsApp groups – before reading your generous assessment – and stated: well I won’t be taking any firkin notice.
No siree!
You’re a tonic mate!
Teddy is desperate to stay relevant!
They could call it Ghebreyesus syndrome.
That’s a genetic disorder where the digestive tract is connected in reverse. Hence, Tedros eats through his asshole and whenever he seems to speak, it’s really just flatulence. Not that uncommon among the political class.
So, old Teddy-boy’s been at it again. What do you want us to do about, mate, cower in a small room covered in sanitizer and wait for DISEASE X… the Placeholder virus?
Now the scope of the definition of “threat” has broadened yet again to encompass not only real pandemics, nor even something that “could” develop into a pandemic potentially, but now even the musings of one man imagining the possibility of a pandemic!
So we can’t “kick down the road” the possibility of another health crisis, then? Yes we can, and we absolutely must, kick it down the road, if we are ever to shift our focus from recovering from the damage inflicted on us over the past few years, rather than imagining future threats.
But no, Dr.G swivels in his chair, strokes his white cat and declares another PHEIC
He reminds me of a cult leader desperately trying to recruit and brainwash followers. He’s dishing out the glasses of Kool-Aid but people have gotten wise now and there are no takers. Much like Bud Light he can’t even give the stuff away.
I have always wondered why grown ups in executive positions in government and business or in this case the WHO, use childish language when they want to make a point. As kids we “kicked the can”. It was a kids game played in alleys in the 50’s. That is all it was, a kids game. So when a top official uses this tiring slogan, you MUST discount them. Here is another thing we said as kids “act your age, not your IQ”.
My IQ is the same as my age!
When I was a kid it was “act your age not your shoesize!”
That’s about right! ” quick, run for your lives,save yourself (and others) someone’s got a raging sniffle!”
Communism deadlier than Covid
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Prepare for a Disease “Even Deadlier” than Covid.
That disease would be called ‘the WHO!’
To (mis) quote Edmund Blackadder “a fate worse than a fate worse than death – pretty bad eh!”
I can say with absolute certainty that there’s definitely no shortage of diseases more deadly than COVID. Practically all diseases, current and future, fit that definition, you absolute *****, Tedros.
Try myocarditis and pericarditis for a start.
I dunno but I’m inclined to be more terrified of a ginormous asteroid hurtling towards Earth in 50 years time than I am some imaginary pandemic killer virus or disease sweeping the globe. You know, statistically and all that…
Don’t give them ideas; we’ll all be made to wear hard hats.
Buy a WHO-approved comet-proof-roof and stay at home to protect Granny?
Hitchens liked to cite eagles dropping tortoises: Aeschylus – Wikipedia
At least in 1910 the purveyor of Comet Pills admitted they were a novelty of no therapeutic value. https://historydaily.org/halleys-comets-1910
”Prepare for most of us to tell you to Fu** *Off!
“At the WHA’s 76th meeting, the WHO launched the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN). It will give all nations access to genomic sequencing to identify and respond to emerging disease threats using genomics.”
Surely this already exists – as the network of labs that someone is paying to cook up new viruses all over the world?
Yes, you can even buy a phone-sized UK-designed sequencer suitable for genome sequencing of microbes for £900, it plugs into your laptop and the processing is done on a cloud server. https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion
Are those the same labs that brew the so-called “whaccines” tof?
Most likely this is Susan Michie and her team beginning to ‘nudge’ people by putting scare articles into newspapers. Wait until countries actually sign up to the Pandemic Treaty and watch the nudging build massively.
The real war of this century is going to be giant unelected organisations trampling on the rights of the individual and, indeed, entire citizenries. Think about it: if a country upsets the WHO, the WHO could order the quarantine of that entire country on the basis of a ‘virus’ in order to bankrupt it. We saw a hint of that when a cartel ganged up to eject Liz Truss in the UK.
This repellent creep urgently needs to be silenced if he doesn’t have the good grace to stop spouting nonsense on his own. We could perhaps put him into a sufficiently large can and kick him down the road a little. To be repeated whenever he makes moves to open his mouth again.
Humans have lived on this planet for about 300,000 years and both their abiltiy to treat and prevent diseases and their general standard of living has been much worse than it is today for almost all of this time. Whatever bad stuff is out there is something we long since encountered and survived. For an extreme example, when the black death swept through Europe it killed up to 80% of the population of each village and town it reached within days. Yersinia pestis is still out there and it could as well suddenly mutate into a variant resurrecting its glory days of old. With could as well meaning We cannot reliably rule this out because we don’t know the future yet. OTOH, it didn’t happen in the last 650 years. Hence, it’s very likely not going to happen tomorrow, either.
Remember 1910, when you could buy umbrellas and pills for protection from Halley’s Comet? There were the masks and vaccines of the day. Same purpose: to make money for the purveyors of fashionable merchandise and quack protection.
At least in 1910 some manufacturers pointed out that this was a novelty product of no therapeutic value!
If the press wasn’t evidently part of all this, they could easily tear the WHO apart. We know Tedros was appointed with help from Red China and was part of a ragingly homicidal, authoritarian government. The whole WHO is easy meat for our jackals and yet no mainstream media organisation is going after them…
“we cannot kick this can down the road” I wish someone would kick Tedros and his mates down the road
Is Disease X AKA Catastrophic Contagion? If so, his funder Bill Gates has already told us what to expect: A disease that breaks out in Africa during 2025 that affects children. During the exercise there were some details he kept to himself and the assembled participants.
Bill’s disease has a name – Seers.
https://nationworldnews.com/seers-the-virus-that-bill-gates-predicted-would-cause-a-pandemic-in-2025/
Ah, thank you. So I was confusing the name of the exercise with the name of the disease and Disease X could be SEERS.
Cooking one up at Wuhan, or some other CIA-sponsored lab?
Even deadlier, eh. What … 0.5% of the population at risk?
This Ethiopian mass murdering Maoist crook should be arrested tried for crimes against humanity and locked up with immediate effect. Hanging in this case really is too good for him. He is utter utter scum.
I agree that this is beyond contempt, but these oiks are actively looking for this virus, and spending billions on this search. Have a look at the Reuters website they have been running some pretty hysteric articles on bat viruses, with some viruses already known to be deadly.
But when you are running with fear and hysterical rhetoric, then anything is possible, and everything is probable..
“Dr” tedros is not a medical doctor, a medical expert nor a scientist. He is a mouthpiece for a cabal that is intent on causing even more death and destruction.
The deadliest disease that is far worse than Covid and which wants to kill us all off already exists…it’s called the WHO BS. It keeps threatening to leak out like a sudden colon-al mass ejection. Best ignored as it’s more a disease of the mind…
Quick Rishi. Build 5 new Nightingale Hospitals (19 beds used) and a new “Track n trace” app. That should waste a cool £50b
That should waste a cool £50b
It will achieve precisely F A but at least we can say we acted on ‘The $cience at the time.’
Deadly…lying piece of 5hit.
Just seems like he wants it to happen a little to much!
He’s still banking on perhaps being able to resurrect COVID if his trained poodles just keep on genomic sequencing to find minor variations in the RNA of virus specimens which can hopefully again be turned into BIG headlines. OTOH, as we’re all dead, anyway, why bother? [*]
[*] In January 2022, when Boris the Brainfart was finally persuaded to lift England mask mandates, the WHO sent a special COVID envoy to London in a last ditch effort to save its pandemic over here. The special envoy duly generated a bunch of headlines by predicting the gravest of consequence within two weeks, possibly earlier, for England and all of the world, should the mandate really be lifted, dramatically culminating in the rethorical question What do these people [Tory MPs] know about The Virus[tm] me and my colleagues, who have been scientfically studying it from the start, don’t?
Come next fortnight, the special COVID envoy had disappeared never to be seen again so far. But that probably wasn’t the dire consequence he had been warning about.
Marxist tedros is desperately clinging to relevance, as are many who have made fortunes and enjoyed their 15 minutes in the limelight by jumping on the convid bandwagon.
Prepare for the next pandemic just as soon as we’ve worked out a name for it and it’s supposed symptoms.
To be serious for a moment, pre covid what was the last global pandemic? The Spanish flu in 1918? if so then the gap to the next one should be at least as long if not more as advances in world hygiene improve.
Yeah, it’s a disease called One World Government.
It leaves you paralysed and dribbling in front of your television while you compulsively stab yourself with whatever it tells you to. It then empties your bank account, opens the front door to allow its armies of immigrants into your home and ships your kids off to a gender reassignment camp.
Very advanced disease that can only be cured by throwing your TV and mobile phone out of the window and refusing to pay your taxes.