That's not what happened. Minaj claimed "a friend of a cousin" had a simply impossible side effect. This is pretty clearly a simple case of an urban legend being shortened from "friend of a friend of a friend" and so the rumor always gets passed on as "friend of a friend" no matter how many links there are in the chain.
Did you notice that you shortened it from "Minaj claimed a friend of a cousin..." to "Minaj claimed a friend...?" Hey, you're human too just like all of us. We suck at passing along rumors.
Let’s say it’s unsubstantiated rumor (she said it was her (not ‘a’) cousin’s friend) What every medical rumor gets knocked out? Only the ones they don’t like? What makes them the right decision makers to decide?
It’s no different from the banning of the Wuhan lab escape theory that was banned because… I dunno some republican happened to like it? Meanwhile lots of virologists believed it should at least be investigated. But no, originally only racists could consider it as a possibility.
We don't know. Maybe she is maybe she isn't. Regardless Twitter is not an official record of anything and additionally they are selective with regard to what inaccuracies they censor.
That said, apparently swollen testes are reported in the VAERS as a reaction to the vaccine. Not a great amount but also non-zero.
> Twitter can suspend anyone and anything for any reason. You play on someone else's server you play by their terms.
Yes, but then, why should there be laws that shield these services from any legal responsibility as to what their users post? The government shouldn't need to protect these businesses either and let them off the hook because of the scale of the moderation. it goes both ways. Private companies can accept whatever they want, the government doesn't have to protect them either, they are a private company after all. They should bear all the risk.
Why does it go both ways? The symmetry isn’t obvious. I can kick you out of my house for whatever reason but I’m not automatically complicit if I let you visit and you pull out a rifle and shoot someone out the window when I wasn’t looking. That is right. And it should be that way.
My personal residence doesn't serve as a chosen communications venue for a significant fraction of the local populous. Network effects are real. Failing to consider them is specious.
That doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of preventing these companies from moderating things. It just concerns me to see such obvious aspects disregarded.
Sure. An individual can’t count on a message being carried, yeah we know, it’s a private company and all…
But… it should concern people the concerted effort to censor anything including the truth if it doesn’t fit a particular narrative.
What is Twitter decided hey, they wanna be on the side of the police and now anyone reporting anything that goes against the police narrative gets banned, true or made up. Does that sound okay?
It’s effed up of people think that that’s okay because they are a private company and it’s their platform…
Like what the eff. People can’t even freely mention an anecdote anymore if it is contrary to the set narrative?
What the eff happened to us in the last two years?
It’s frankly, disgusting and very concerning.