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Facebook's Oversight Board has ruled that the platform was justified in its decision to "indefinitely" suspend former President Trump after the Capitol riot.
The court-like oversight board announced Facebook can continue blocking Trump from using its platform but must review the decision within six months.
But the panel also criticized Facebook for having made the suspension indefinite:
"In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities. The Board declines Facebook's request and insists that Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty."
Do you support or oppose Facebook's Trump ban?
Biden Backs Waiver of Patents for COVID Vaccines
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will support international efforts led by India and South Africa to waive intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines.
The U.S. and other wealthy nations - including the European Union - previously opposed the waiver and argued it would disincentivize pharmaceutical companies from innovating products to fight the current pandemic and those that arise in the future.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai released aĀ statementĀ which explained the Biden administration supports taking the āextraordinary measuresā of waiving the patents, but cautioned that the process of doing so will take time:
āThe Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines. We will actively participate in text-based negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) needed to make that happen..."
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in an interview Tuesday that the notion of a forced patent waiver is āso wrongā and doesnāt make sense because simplyĀ waiving the patents wonāt in and of itself lead to increased production of vaccine dosesĀ due to the novel processes used to make messenger RNA vaccines like Pfizerās.
Do you support or oppose waiving intellectual property protections for COVID vaccines?
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PERMANENT BLOCK OF ANYTHING & EVERYTHING TRUMPISH!!! AND DESANTIS OUT in 2022!!!!!!
Glo: It just feels right to see you back again. Missed you buddy!
Ah, Larubia, you are on a roll. With our new, honest and intelligent A.G., I am hoping he will be in prison by 2024. No one deserves prison more. He murdered between 500 and 900,000 people with his lies about Covid. He, then, killed more with the January 6 insurrection he incited! His name, and his entire familyās, should NEVER BE ALLOWED A PUBLIC FORUM FOR ANY SPEECH, EVER AGAIN. They should all just fade away into obscurity! Amen!
Absolutely, Larubia! Our tax dollars helped create these vaccines. They should be ours for free or a very small fee...
With you ALL THE WAY, jimK! Unbelievable how little backbone most of the Repugnants have. And have you read that the Dump extended his older childrenās security and travel benefits for 6 months after his disgraceful departure? Yep, we still are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on his 3 older, greedy, morally-devoid brats! The Dump and his spawn should be banned from EVERY site there is! We have heard and paid enough of them and to them!
Adrienne, that was spot on! Loved it. šš»šš»šā¤ļø
I, absolutely, agree to Facebook banning Trump and all other S.O.B.ās who lie or stretch the truth, in any way. Free speech, as I have stated numerous times before, is NOT a license to tell us all lies and/or mislead us - EVER! January 6, proved that!
Facebook should ban Trump permanently for spreading lies and inciting violence.
Why is anyone still talking about the the worldās greatest loser. Letās see - some people still care what he says for reasons I cannot fathom. This is the business āwizardā who has left every enterprise he has ever touched in bankruptcy or collapse. In a ten year period of prior tax filings the trump lost more money than any other individual American tax filer and was something like forth place when including publicly traded large institutions. His four year term has unnecessarily cost 590,000 American Covid deaths, revived and energized White Supremacist domestic terrorism, channeled millions of taxpayer dollars to his familyās flailing businesses, exceeded all historical norms of self-serving Presidential abuses of power, aided and abetted Russiaās increased influence on world politics and infiltration of NATO, and on and on. He led an attack on the very process of free and fair elections that is a foundational part of our democracy, including an armed life threatening insurrection of of our countryās Capitol. How can any American support this worldās biggest, lamest, total LOSER, a LOSERāS LOSER who does not even have the balls to admit that he had LOST an the election. ā¦ ā¦ ā¦ No-one seems to have the courage enough to stand up to this incoherent waste of human flesh and all have been content to Kick the can to someone else. It is time for the DOJ to protect the country from this narcissistic sociopathic pied piper apparently still able to draw troubled children to follow him. Some organization in government should be protecting the world from this disaster of a āleaderā. The Republican Senate has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of honoring its oath to protect our country or honor itās constitutional duty to provide checks and balances.
Trump should be banned from all media, not just social. He is a traitorous criminal who sought to overthrow our government. He needs to be arrested, tried, convicted, jailed or exiled to his beloved Russia, if Putin will have him as he will no longer be of use. Accountability and punishment for all the seditionists, especially those in Congress. All should be ousted and never allowed to serve or have a public platform again.
Bicycler is it you who works with vets? I am told, from an extremely reliable source, that Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson would work well in group settings. What? Yes, I get it. But if the recommendation helps a former solider, I can handle a bit of eye rolling š¤£.
He should be banned until after the 2024 presidential election and then put on probation and warned if he pushes more hate it will be permanent! Anything said on those sites that are proven falsehood have consequences! Monetary consequences!
Iām so tired of trump and his cronies. Yes I support his permanent band from all forms of social media. He is a traitor and a national disgrace. He let us get infected and too many die. Heās lied day one, heās lying now. He was awful as a president and a human. Heās fighting because he knows he stole 2016, intended to steal 2020. Trump only accuses others of the things he did or does himself. He has ruined careers of honest hardworking people, military, ambassadors, career employees in the highest places all for personal gain. He is a traitor and Iām tired of the media and our government not calling him out for who and what he is. He is a TRAITOR TO OUR COUNTRY. HE IS A SEDITIONIST, HE IS A BLACK MAILER. He is a grifter, a con man. HE HOLDS something over the GOP and if we ever find out whatās in those unreleased RNC HACKED EMAILS, we just may find the answer. Maybe itās been the GOP have been cheating in a number of states to win, maybe itās the fact South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham who was so quick to tell Georgia to toss out the legitimate votes have been doing that for years to hold on to his seat. Thereās something stinky in the Republican Party so much they donāt want any truths out there. The fact that Facebook has allowed extremist parties remain on the platform as it has allowed our country to be divided with hate and lies, Facebook we thought was a good platform to reunite with loved ones around the country, friends around the world, class reunion groups, never did we think it would turn into a less secure place that would sell our information, replicate our images, hack our accounts then pretend to be us. The FCC should do a top down investigation. Donāt hold a hearing first, investigate first. Zuckerberg has become part of the problem you wonāt get the truth until you know what to ask. Zuckerberg to monopolize information and get rich. Look at the cost. Look at America. I absolutely support a LIFETIME BAN on trump from all platforms and after that you need to investigate Rupert Murdoch and his spewing and sowing disinformation and misinformation not just in America but across the globe. He came to America for a better life or to destroy it. We are not his experiment. Government protect our country and its people NOW! This dangerous game these traitors are playing is not over. Do something!
Pharmaceutical companies are NEVER going to be altruistic. Phizer & Moderna have already been paid billions, with our tax dollars. Give the vaccines away to whoever wants them.
The bigger FB issue is the powerful rt wing GQP influence on the Board that refuses to correct the algorithm that promotes rt wing misinformation. Zuck and his powerful republican employees are hardly unbiased
tRumpās First Amendment rights are being violated! Really? The First Amendment does NOT protect: obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that causes harm to reputation Outside of child pornography, tRump has publicly made statements about most categories listed above. The most egregious being the comments that led to the attack on our Capitol on January 6th...which wasnāt the first time he called for people to take action against their own government. Not only should he be silenced, he should be in prison! Rights come with responsibilities!!! When you are not responsible, your rights can & should be taken away!!!
A huge part of the American population gets all of their news through Facebook and Twitter, what better way to push the socialist agenda by silencing the other side. This is great the demoncrats are using a workaround and not violating the 1st amendment by allowing big tech to sensor the conservative voice. Trump has been out of office for 5 months and the liberal media canāt seem to let him go. Amazing how one person will be the focus of a group of people that find so much hatred and disdain for over half of the country. If you people believe in silencing a different point of view then you should move to another country where you will be told how to think.
Vaccine Patent: This action may have a disparate impact; more specifically, it may serve as a disincentive for innovation by companies going forward.
To Carens and other uneducated Americans. The US Constitution refers to the āabridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.ā So what does this mean today? Generally speaking, it means that the government may not jail, fine, or impose civil liability on people or organizations based on what they say or write, except in exceptional circumstances. ... The First Amendment restrains only the government. Private companies, such as FB or Twitter, may lawfully ban those that violate their rules. Please read the Constitution! Educate yourselves!