California Democrat asks Twitter, Facebook to ban Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine postshttps://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article249557493.htmlCalifornia state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, is calling on Twitter and Facebook to ban high-profile anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from their platforms as part of a national campaign to encourage vaccination against COVID-19.
Pan told supporters of his Ready to Vaccinate campaign in a Wednesday email that Kennedy should be stripped of his accounts for using them to “spread lies about COVID-19 vaccines and trying to drive fear in communities of color.â€
“Sadly, COVID-19 isn’t the only disease we’re fighting,†Pan wrote in the email inviting subscribers to sign a petition for Kennedy’s social media removal. “We’re also up against the disease of misinformation, perpetuated by high-profile anti-vaxxers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.â€
IMO:
* RFK Jr. is scum who would tell any lie and make any ridiculously false claim he thought would persuade someone to his POV;
* FB and Twitter are private companies; since banning RFK Jr., AFAIK, violates no anti-discrimination law, they are free to ban or not ban him, whichever they feel is right for their companies;
* IMO, FB and Twitter should
not ban RFK Jr., but let their members expose his lies and shred his false claims with facts; banning him would give him the patina of a martyr.