By Internet Watchdog Demands De-platforming COVID Vaccine Critics
The CEO of an internet watchdog focused on monitoring conversations about Covid-19 has called on Big Tech to de-platform and deny service to those who are critical of Covid-19 vaccines.
Last week David Jay of San Francisco’s Center for Humane Technology (CHT) interviewed Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in an online meeting watched by over 500 people. Friday’s half-hour long meeting, entitled “The Disinformation Industry and Covid-19,” was dedicated to criticizing vaccine skeptics.
“Big Tech needs to make a decision, now that we expose the intent, the tactics and the deadly impact of the anti-vaxx industry, and the ways in which social media platforms have become integral to their success,” Ahmed told Jay. “Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google can stop this now. They could stop providing services to people whose business is in enabling the spread of disease and death.”
Ahmed claimed that “anything less than the dismantling of these individuals’ profiles, pages and groups and permanent denial of service” would be “willing acquiescence” on the part of the Big Tech with the so-called “anti-vaxx industry.”
Both Ahmed and Jay believe that leading critics of vaccines are, in fact, “an industry” dedicated to “sowing doubt” for profit.
