Good news! Craig Kelly has been banned from Facebook for a week!The Liberal MP and conspiracy theori
Good news! Craig Kelly has been banned from Facebook for a week!The Liberal MP and conspiracy theorist has made a name for himself for peddling COVID-19 misinformation and so has violated Facebook’s terms of service enough for a temporary ban. Fucking finally.“I strongly object to the ban, there are absolutely no grounds whatsoever,” said the man who people only really know about because he’s a climate denying COVID-19 conspiracy theorist who is so controversial even Scott Morrison is starting to distance himself from him. And Scott Morrison is not known for his love of holding members of his party accountable for their actions.Kelly posted 3 links (now deleted by Facebook) to incorrect information about COVID-19 like a claim that hydroxychloroquine could be a cure, even though it’s actually found to be ineffective and have potentially severe or deadly side effects if misused. He also had a post that said that “paper and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling” which is the kind of cool fun thing you want to hear from elected officials. “Oh you’re following health advice to try and save lives? Wow, way to virtue signal.”Kelly also says children wearing masks is child abuse. I bet he’s super fun at parties.Naturally Kelly has cried censorship and freedom of speech - two things that don’t apply to this situation where he repeatedly violated the terms of service of a private company. Booo. Big sad conspiracy theorist temporarily has to be quiet on one of the MANY platforms available to him to spread damaging and harmful misinformation. It must be so hard for him.I hope he gets banned permanently. -- source link
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