The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up

The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up

There’s only one problem: What is health misinformation? I know of no oracular source of truth about Covid-19. Scientific consensus has shifted dramatically during the pandemic, and even now experts are divided over important issues, such as whether everyone should get a vaccine booster shot. Klobuchar and Luján’s bill elides these complications. Instead they designate an all-knowing authority: Health misinformation, the bill says, is whatever the secretary of health and human services decides is health misinformation.

Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate

Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate

Environmental activist and writer Chet Bowers claimed that their social agenda includes the imposition of barriers to people’s ability to vote; the use of the prison system to control a large segment of the poor and non-white population; the intertwining of fundamentalist religions and segments of government focused on national security; and the use of the military to globalize the American way of life; the suppression of basic human rights, especially for women; the undermining of the rights of workers to organize in order to oppose being exploited; and the authorization of fraudulent elections in which the

Covid hit the working class hardest, but the traditional Left is deaf to their problems. Enter the populist Left

Covid hit the working class hardest, but the traditional Left is deaf to their problems. Enter the populist Left

A real Left would have redirected this anger at the profiteers and politicians who failed the workers, giving them only crumbs in the form of stimulus payments. A worker-focused Left would argue for the appropriation of corporate delivery systems like Amazon for basic necessities if they wanted people to stay home, end evictions, protect wages, support those who continued to work, and much more. None of that happened, but at least Mr. Potato Head is now gender neutral. Tell that to the next class reductionist who wants to be protected from eviction!

Pandemic of the Vaccinated

Pandemic of the Vaccinated

Jen Psaki, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams…all Rona positive, all fully vaxed. It’s almost as if the vaccines aren’t made to stop the spread but rather to facilitate it.

Sources:

White House press secretary Psaki says she has COVID-19

Vaccinated People Also Spread the Delta Variant, Yearlong Study Shows

Billionaires Are Not Morally Qualified To Shape Human Civilization

Jon Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams cancel shows after testing positive for Covid