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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1372573)8/31/2022 4:00:50 PM
From: miraje  Read Replies (1) of 1583555
 
Media bias is legal. Private companies have no legal requirement to be "fair and balanced."

What about medical advice? I don't know why you Californians continue to vote for these fascist fucks who want to control every facet of your lives. "Ve are the sole arbiters of truth. You vill be punished if you disagree"...

katu.com

California advances bill that would punish doctors for pushing COVID 'misinformation'
by ALEC SCHEMMEL | The National Desk

..."The spread of misinformation and disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has weakened public confidence and placed lives at serious risk," the bill continues. "Major news outlets have reported that some of the most dangerous propagators of inaccurate information regarding the COVID-19 vaccines are licensed health care professionals."
AB 2098 also declares what it claims are certain truths about the virus, including how many deaths have resulted from COVID, the safety and beneficial nature of vaccines and more supposedly indisputable facts.

Last year, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) warned "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation" risk losing their medical license.

"Due to their specialized knowledge and training, licensed physicians possess a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they recognize it or not," FSMB wrote in its warning. "They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health. Spreading inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine information contradicts that responsibility, threatens to further erode public trust in the medical profession and puts all patients at risk...
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