The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis
Does anyone understand what point he&#x27;s trying to make, or is it that the point is a very generic, &quot;hey censorship is bad,&quot; which most people will agree with, but is argued rather poorly?<p>At the end he writes, &quot;From everything I’ve heard, talking to doctors and reading the background material, the Bakersfield doctors are probably not to be trusted. But the functional impact of removing their videos (in addition to giving them press they wouldn’t otherwise have had) is to stamp out discussion of things that do actually need to be discussed, like when the damage to the economy...&quot;<p>Does taking down a video of a couple of charlatans, &quot;stamp out discussion of things that do actually need to be discussed&quot;? I don&#x27;t see how at all, maybe I&#x27;m missing something about why this has upset Taibbi so much. Other than, maybe anything that involves Google&#x2F;Facebook playing a role in removing content from the Internet will just make him mad, regardless of the issue at hand.