Free internet, you say? They censor that they can no longer be silent. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Amazon, Google are taking concrete steps that "limit anti-vaccination rhetoric."
1. As you know, in January 2019, the WHO identified anti-vaccines as one of the 10 biggest threats to health in the world in 2019. From that moment on, the war on anti-vaccines began to gain momentum.
2. Congressman Adam Schiff sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to limit anti-vaccine rhetoric on Facebook and Instagram.
The American Medical Association sent an open letter to the CEOs of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube asking them to explain exactly what steps they are taking to curb anti-vaccination rhetoric. The American Academy of Pediatrics has sent a similar letter to the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Pinterest.
3. Facebook will no longer display anti-vaccination pages and groups in recommendations and search results, and will restrict the display of anti-vaccination materials in the news feed.
4. Instagram blocks anti-vaccine hashtags.
5. YouTube demonetized anti-vaccine channels.
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6. Pinterest removes information against vaccinations and blocks users who publish it.
7. Amazon has removed anti-vaccine films, including the acclaimed film Vaxxed, from Amazon Prime, which, among other things, streams movies.
Amazon has also taken off the sale of several books on unconventional autism treatments and vaccinations.
8. GoFundMe - a crowdfunding platform - has banned fundraising for anti-vaccination purposes.
9. Etsy has banned the sale of anti-vaccination products.
10. A county in New York has banned unvaccinated MMR children from public places for 30 days. Because in the district of 328,000 people, there have been 150 cases of measles since November. Parents whose unvaccinated children show up in public will have to pay a $ 500 fine or go to jail.
11. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has been heavily criticized for interviewing Ben Greenfeld, a sports author, on his podcast because he has expressed anti-vaccine views on social media. This despite the fact that in the podcast itself there was not a word about vaccinations, and Jack Dorsey himself did not know anything about Greenfeld's opinion about vaccines.
12. Rusfond removes references to vaccinations in children's stories. Here are specific examples, it was-now: