Did you know that beheading videos, pornography and mask effectiveness charts from journal articles are lumped into the same category of sensitive information by Twitter? Neither did I.

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[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Why yes, I was aware of this. The question is, why were you not aware? Have you been living under a rock? Did you simply believe what you were told like a lamb being led to slaughter?

[–]Chipit[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

An employee at Twitter mislabeling factual content as sensitive in order to obscure it from public view could hardly be deemed part of the authority of science.

In fact, those attempting to share information and scientific studies that are being obscured (which seems to be the case here) are more akin to the authority of science than the political apparatus attempting to limit what science is shared.

Those who feel completely comfortable with the government in conjunction with social media companies deciding what the public may consider might feel most at home in Russia, China or North Korea.