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Anonymous ID: e4fabd Aug. 1, 2020, 7:36 p.m. No.10156179   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Bokhari: By Suppressing Medical Debate, It Is Twitter That Endangers Americans

Twitter has once again acted as judge, juror and executioner. For four days, Twitter prevented the @BreitbartNews twitter account from posting, only restoring its permissions earlier today. This is in no small part because Twitter dragged its feet on Breitbart News’ appeal

 

Twitter initially locked Breitbart News’ account because it posted a video of a press conference featuring Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and licensed doctors sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus and the medical response to the pandemic. The event was held by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors and organized by the Tea Party Patriots.

 

In short, Twitter has punished a news organization for posting a video of a live-streaming of a press conference held by a congressman and licensed medical doctors.

 

At the event, some of the doctors shared their opinion on hydroxychloroquine, highlighting it as a potentially helpful treatment in fighting COVID-19. Once doctor called it a “cure.”

 

Because Breitbart News’ Twitter account carried a video livestream of their comments, Twitter accused Breitbart of “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”

 

As an aside, Breitbart News is a news company, not a licensed medical professional and has no editorial position of the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. But for Twitter (which is also not a licensed medical professional) to assert that the video contained potentially harmful information rings hollow. Hydroxychloroquine is not Tide Pods; it’s not something people can simply go down to the local drugstore, buy, and ingest without medical advice and supervision.

 

In the United States, hydroxychloroquine is a legal, FDA approved medication available only by prescription; so a person would have to go to their doctor and get it prescribed after making a decision with their own doctor whether or not to take hydroxychloroquine.

 

And, whether Twitter likes it or not, or thinks it should be otherwise, doctors are prescribing hydroxychloroquine on an off-label basis for COVID-19; Twitter trying to pretend it is not happening or wishing it was not happening is self-sophistry.

 

Twitter has demanded that Breitbart News delete the following tweets before restoring access to the account. Breitbart appealed that decision, and pending appeal has been locked out of its account. Incredibly, Twitter took almost three full days to reply to Breitbart’s appeal – meaning time and traffic lost during a fast-moving election season. When Twitter finally did respond it denied the appeal.

 

Twitter then demanded that Breitbart News delete the following tweets before restoring access to the account and that Breitbart serve a 12-hour “time out” — meaning even more time and traffic lost during a fast-moving election season.

 

Twitter’s actions have public health implications. The tech giant is preventing the public, including the critically ill, from receiving information from physicians with first-hand experience treating COVID-19 patients. Twitter’s censorship denies the public access to information — and that can put lives, health, and well-being of Americans at risk.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/01/bokhari-twitter-censor-medical-debate-hydroxychloroquine/

Anonymous ID: e4fabd Aug. 1, 2020, 7:39 p.m. No.10156195   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6205 >>6349 >>6376

TikTok Says in U.S. ‘For the Long Run’ as Trump Ban Looms

TikTok said Saturday it was “not planning on going anywhere” after President Donald Trump threatened to ban the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app from operating in the United States.

 

TikTok’s general manager for the US, Vanessa Pappas, told users that the company was working to give them “the safest app,” amid US concerns over data security.

 

“We’re not planning on going anywhere,” Pappas said in a message released on the app.

 

TikTok, especially popular with young audiences who create and watch its short-form videos, has an estimated one billion users worldwide.

 

But US officials have raised concerns that it could be used as a tool for Chinese intelligence — a claim the firm, owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, has repeatedly denied.

 

On Friday, Trump told reporters traveling with him aboard Air Force One that he was moving to bar the app from having any US operations.

 

“As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said.

 

ByteDance has offered to sell the app’s US operations as a way to avert Trump’s ban, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.

 

Earlier media reports had suggested Trump would require that the app’s US operations be divested from ByteDance, but he instead announced a ban.

 

The proposed divestment would not necessarily affect TikTok’s operations outside the United States, the Times report said.

 

“While we do not comment on rumors or speculation, we are confident in the long-term success of TikTok,” the company said when asked for comment on the Times article.

 

Some reports have indicated that Microsoft is in advanced talks to buy TikTok’s US operations.

‘For the long run’

 

The American Civil Liberties Union cried foul over the possibility of a ban on the app.

 

“Banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger to free expression and is technologically impractical,” said the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, Jennifer Granick.

 

“With any Internet platform, we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,” Granick said in a statement.

 

“But shutting one platform down, even if it were legally possible to do so, harms freedom of speech online and does nothing to resolve the broader problem of unjustified government surveillance.”

 

Pappas said she was “proud” of TikTok’s 1,500 US employees, and also noted the “additional 10,000 jobs” the company plans on creating in the US in the next three years.

 

“When it comes to safety and security, we’re building the safest app because we know it’s the right thing to do,” she said.

 

“So we appreciate the support. We’re here for the long run, and continue to share your voice here and let’s stand for TikTok.”

https://www.breitbart.com/news/bytedance-offers-to-sell-tiktoks-us-ops-as-trump-ban-looms-report/

Anonymous ID: e4fabd Aug. 1, 2020, 7:45 p.m. No.10156277   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6341

Trump-Loving Grandmother Outs Alleged Portland ‘Bomber’ Grandson

 

A 69-year-old Trump-supporting grandmother outed her grandson as the suspect who allegedly threw a makeshift bomb outside a Portland, Oregon, federal courthouse Tuesday.

 

The New York Post reported that Karla Fox recognized the alleged bomber as her grandson, Gabriel “Rico” Agard-Berryhill.

 

In the hours after the attack, social media users sifted through videos showing a slim man wearing an olive-colored vest with the word “ICONS” printed on it, throwing an item over the fence at the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse.

 

Rioters threw a bomb at the front of the Portland federal courthouse. This wasn’t one of their usual firework explosives. #PortlandRiots #antifa pic.twitter.com/omCq0GtZMj

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2020

 

Within seconds, there’s an explosion that covers the courthouse’s front door in flames. The suspect picks something up from the group and slips away from the camera’s view.

 

Fox immediately recognized her grandson because she gifted him the vest.

 

“I bought the vest for him after he found one online after getting hit with rubber bullets the night before at the protest,” Fox told the Post. (She even left a positive review on clothing site Hibbett: “I got this for my grandson who’s a protester downtown, he uses it every night and says it does the job.”)

 

Agard-Berryhill told the Post via text message Thursday that he admitted misguided involvement, but did not outright say he was the bomber.

 

“The device I’ve been accused of allegedly throwing was allegedly given to me by an unknown [protester] with full face coverings,” he wrote. “I was allegedly told that it was a strobe firework that wouldn’t damage the building or harm anyone around it.”

 

Later that evening, Agard-Berryhill spoke with his probation officer and turned himself in. U.S. Marshals arrested him and booked him into the Multnomah County Detention Center.

 

Authorities charged him with felony arson, and he faces at least five years behind bars if convicted. He was released without bail.

 

The alleged bomb-throwing shocked Fox, a conservative who supports President Donald Trump and claimed that she did not know her grandson’s politics.

 

Fox says her grandson told her last week that he was peacefully protesting and “protecting a girl.”

 

“I believed all his stories,” Fox says. “He said he was just hanging out at Riot Ribs [an anarchist food co-op] and doing peaceful things.”

 

Fox said her grandson is on probation for a felony conviction from when he was a minor. She said he spent two years at Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility in southern Oregon and spoke about changing his life for the better and getting a job at Amazon.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/01/trump-loving-grandmother-outs-alleged-portland-bomber-grandson/

Anonymous ID: e4fabd Aug. 1, 2020, 7:48 p.m. No.10156316   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: e4fabd Aug. 1, 2020, 7:58 p.m. No.10156411   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6421

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>“Banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger to free expression and is technologically impractical,” said the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, Jennifer Granick.

 

TikTok = CCP Data Collection App!