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by TonRoly 2267 days ago
I am not a doctor... I am just a regular person who doesn’t understand why articles and posts similar to this including videos on YouTube, Facebook and other places are being removed.

I found this to be an interesting article and true or false Doesn’t it fall under the Freedom of Speech... I sent this link to several people I know that are in the medical industry one of which is a brilliant doctor on the front lines saving lives at NCH hospital in Naples Florida... but before she sees it it is no longer available...

I track this to this thread and see everyone debating everything from politics to science... yet why was this removed I. The first place? I’m sorry but when my mother raised me she was adamant about the point that we could say anything we wanted to anyone that we wanted and as long as it didn’t hurt anybody we were free to do so… Now I’m finding it very disturbing situation where information that I felt was important and needed to be looked at by people that I needed to trust to tell me if it was correct or not etc. etc. now it’s gone and I come to this group debating… And thank goodness I found out about this.

2 comments

This was removed because it was half-conspiracy and half-maybe-useful. In any case you can't encourage people to "share and debate" half-biased articles.

Share the actual studies! Debate those. Don't encourage the very armchair scientists the author derides in his article.... The author of the article is one too!

You don't go to your friend and open a debate about how you should treat your cancer, you go to your doctor and start the conversation there.

I understand and mostly agree with your concern about the censorship of messages these outlets disagree with. I must point out that while unethical, it is not a freedom of speech issue. The constitutional right to freedom of speech is in relationship to the government only. If Medium and other platforms were a government run then you would be correct. Thankfully, they are not. Pressure put on the censoring by platforms by you and I is the only way to change their mode of operation.