[belorn]

Since Swedish policy during covid, produced by medical professionals and researchers, was contrary to US policy during covid, this kind of information was also removed.

You do not have this kind of disagreement within the professional field with bomb making materials. Pandemic prevention is an on-going research topic where a lot of different professionals has wild difference in views and approaches, and the meta studies done post the covid pandemic has also demonstrated that much of the strategies deployed by countries all over the world, including US and Sweden, was proven to be inefficient or directly false. The effectiveness of non-N95 respirator against an airborn virus that mostly spread through aerosols (rather than droplets) was one of them, and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden demonstrated that in an early study when they found live virus surviving the filtered air conditioning in the hospital.

Some people in Sweden first learned about the US censorship because official news from the Swedish government was removed from platforms. Some fringe Covid disinformation might get people kill, but the chilling effect from liberal use of censorship will also kill people.

The biggest killer of all seems to be the politicization of pandemic research. The meta studies seems to be mostly ignored by the political discussion, and its very possible that we get a repeat of the pandemic sooner than later without any thing changing from last time.

[bjourne]

"Some people in Sweden first learned about the US censorship because official news from the Swedish government was removed from platforms."

Citation very, very much needed.

[shakna]

And none of that changes YouTube's liability - caused by misinformation and death.

A company can generally be relied upon to act to reduce their liability in most cases. That involves not pissing off their federal regulatory bodies.

Sweden was not caught up in the early suppression of misinformation. Things changed after a certain tacolike individual called Google's CEO into a private meeting. And expecting them to ignore that, is insane.

[whywhywhywhy]

>And none of that changes YouTube's liability - caused by misinformation and death.

Doesn’t section 230 protect them from the consequences of words users transmit through their platform.

[shakna]

Only if they "take reasonable steps" to "delete or prevent access" to that content. That is, they filter or suppress the information. Which is precisely the point of this thread. They did.

[zanfr]

Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics.

N95s (and above) definitely work, so does filtered air. But sweden has a long standing history of eugenics

[int_19h]

> Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics.

Is it? There were some very scathing attacks on their COVID policy back in the first two years of the pandemic, but when you look at more recent retrospectives that have the benefit of hindsight, it seems that they didn't actually do worse than countries which went full lockdown.

[Sloowms]

As opposed to the US? Like sending infected elderly people to elderly homes to infect more people?

[andrepd]

That's your perspective. What if I were to demand it be silenced and only opinions praising its policy were shown?

Let's talk it over in the open, it's not perfect but it's the best way.