In a Report dated December 4th, 2024, the Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic dropped a 520-page report on its investigation into the pandemic and the response. One of the first topics it addressed was whether the virus was zoonotic or engineered.
Keep in mind that there are things in this report that the handmaiden media would love, but mostly, not so much. The lab leak “theory” has gained cultural, institutional, and scientific support. The idea is not crazy, right-wing, or conspiratorial, and the Congressional report does a decent job of showing us why.
LinkedIn doesn’t want anyone to know this.
It is not that the content is political (even though this one is not). Like many others, I have been posting similar content there for a while. This is the first time the powers that be have behaved like Facebook, which takes our posts down all the time for spurious reasons, but not this one. Not yet.
Facebook claims the posts it dislikes are spam, which means you need to do something or click on something to see the content after you follow the link I share. We’ve never done that. Not ever. Facebook is full of shit, and when I tell them, they don’t care.
LinkedIn is no less proggy (ownership-wise) but has been much more forgiving to date. I have shared hundreds of controversial topics and headlines there, and not one has been blocked. It seems, however, that this is a bridge too far. Congress cannot be trusted to assess and report the input of scientists and technicians with knowledge of policy and practice at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- Someone asked for a grant to engineer a coronavirus with features not found in nature (in the Wuhan Lab) that looks exactly like the one that got away.
- It got away.
Congress gets a lot of things wrong, so why not this? Fair enough, but why this particular matter and no other? I’m not all that concerned or interested (beyond the fact that I got a post out of it), but I am amused. I’ve posted scores of articles I expected to see blocked or yanked or that might inspire LinkedIn to eject me from its community. Most mornings, I wonder if I still have an active Facebook account, as they’ve threatened to cancel me for years.
Not to the unwary. If you admin a page or group they dislike, they can and will remove your personal page with it, should the urge strike them.
We have had triggered proglodytes try to get us kicked off the internet, been threatened with lawsuits, and on and on. It is a hazard of the hobby and is not limited to one side of the political aisle. A few years back, someone with strong ties to the NHGOP tried to get me fired for calling their favored candidate for GOP chair, Jennifer Horn, what she was and how bad she’d be as the NH GOP chair. A few years later, after years of being a terrible Chairman, she hooked up with the RINOs in the Lincoln Project and, not long after, left the Republican party.
Who was right? Me and Skip, that’s who (pats self on the back – Skip can pat his back way up there in the Lakes Region when he has the time).
That happens a lot around here. Pissing the right people off over the correct issues without regard to party. We’re not always right, but we go places no one else would dare, and that sort of brutal pursuit costs you potential contacts or sources and gets you attacked and called names, and we keep on keepin’ on.
The SPLC put us on their hate map as anti-government. We couldn’t be more proud. Our most recent accolade, scoring below 40% from NewsGuard, makes it impossible for us to rank well in Google (despite which our traffic has doubled) and other search frauds who take their ratings as evidence of truth in journalism when they are the opposite.
I would not be surprised to see an email from NewsGuard asking us about the lab leak post, which is presented as a synopsis of the actual congressional report. Sharing news is dishonest when it is not the news they want you to share.
LinkedIn has glommed itself to that blob, at least on this issue, and it’s their right, as it is mine to make fun of them for it. And here we are. I might as well drop in a pitch for donations because we can’t keep the website running without them.
Free speech isn’t free, but we’ll keep speaking as long and as often as we like, with or without Facebook or LinkedIn if it comes to that. We can still be found at both and on X, Telegram, Signal, Gab, Truth, Minds, and Locals. They never block our content.
We hope you look for us and follow us wherever you are and please keep reading and sharing.
And yes, I’ll let you know if they block this one too.
