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When I got my vaccine, they gave us a sheet with all the possible side effects, their relative frequencies, and when you should seek medical attention. Do you not get one of those?
That's nice but the thing is if you posted those side effects on Facebook they would have to remove it because of the US government pressure. What do you think about that? Shouldn't people be able to share and read those side effects on any platform they choose online?
Not a Facebook user and I know nothing about them having to remove this. Seems strange to me that the government would prevent you from sharing information that they're trying to disseminate themselves. I do agree that the information should be available on any platform.
Somebody else already explained it but I’ll repeat since you’re not listening. You didn’t quote a full quote. You pulled half a sentence.
They wanted true information removed when it was only partial, or was paired with incorrect information. Posting the pamphlet given when you were vaccinated would be fine because it was complete and contained no incorrect information.
But posting half the information can be damaging too as you’ve shown elsewhere in this very conversation. Your 1 in 32 statistic was followed up with information that issues were minor and had absolutely no lasting side effects or major cardiac events. Posting that statistic by itself with no extra information scares people from getting the vaccine.
So you posting 1 in 32 people have issues would get removed. You posting a link stating that 1 in 32 people have issues but none of them major or long lasting would not be removed. Do you see the difference?
My government health department mandated this kind of information sheet too.
Facebook is owned by Mark Zuckerberg, he gets to choose what is shared. He says no to nipples, yes to incitement to genocide, and yes to the insane ramblings of my former mother in law.
I have no idea whether his army of underpaid mods would remove a screenshot of a government data sheet or not but the problem there is being so reliant on facebook, a private company.
The great thing about the fediverse is if you don't like a particular platform you can spin up your own instance.