Is this even news?

Not Just Misinformation: In Emails to White House, Facebook Admits Suppressing ‘Often-True Content’ on COVID-19 Vaccines

Facebook told an official at the Biden White House that the big Tech company not only suppressed misinformation but took action against the “virality” of “often-true content” regarding the COVID-19 vaccines.

In an April 22, 2021 email, Flaherty told Google staff that the White House remains “concerned that Youtube [sic] is ‘funneling’ people into hesitance and intensifying people’s hesitancy. We certainly recognize that removing content that is unfavorable to the cause of increasing vaccine adoption is not a realistic—or even good—solution.”

The White House’s digital strategy chief added that combating vaccine hesitancy “is a concern that is shared at the highest (and I mean highest) levels of the WH [White House],” an apparent reference to the president himself.

So basically the White House was pressuring Facebook and other tech companies to censor true information in order to push the Administration directive of getting everyone vaccinated. The idea, of course, was to keep any negative facts about the vaccines or even studies about the success of alternate treatments away from an American public that is generally prone to wanting liberty and freedom to make their own decisions.

I am sure there were some (maybe even most in the Biden inner circle) who felt that taking away our first Amendment rights to free speech while simultaneously limiting information that would have been available for Americans to make their own medical choices... was a legitimate step given the circumstances. I also am just as sure that politics played a part. There was almost a civil war between the liberal Fauci vaccine supporters vs the conservative skeptics who might have wanted to (gasp) treat Covid. Talks from liberals about jailing people who refused to take the jab or removing children from parents who refused to vaccinate them was a commonplace occurrence. It all became a matter of political principles and many lines were drawn in the sand

At the end of the day, we now know that Vaccines were never what they were cracked up to be. We know that they neither prevented (or even slowed down to any significant degree) the spread of the virus. To the degree that they might have controlled the seriousness of the sickness, the vaccines were always a step behind the latest variant. We also know that their effectiveness in children was underwhelming and statistically unnecessary.

Moreover, we are now coming to grasp with the reality that the side effects were hidden from us. Side effects that include a very high rate of cardiac problems that appear to be permanent and not fleeting (as 98% of the Covid cases were). Would people have taken the jab knowing that there was a high risk of life-log cardiac problems that could lead to early death knowing that it only mildly protected them from a virus that had a 99% survival rate overall and nearly 100% among normal healthy people. I doubt it.

But should we have at least been given that information and been given our own choice in the matter? Instead we had people who were habitually wrong about Covid, led a dreadful response compared to the rest of the world, make the determination that they knew better what was good for us (or good for them). But then again... vote Democrat and you are voting for others (that many of us wouldn't trust to pick up or dry cleaning) to make your choices for you.