1. Here is a quick example on why censorship doesn't work. Say you created a company around the fact that you had the best search engine. One if used, people could immediately find what they needed.

2. It worked so well everyone flocked to your product.

3. It created almost a monopoly for your company in the search industry.

4. With this monopoly power you decide to start censoring speech and filtering search to only give the "proper" response to searches because you are a leftist.
5. Net result is your search program is no longer the best search engine. It may be the best censored search engine but it's no longer the best.

6. Users are now taking more and more time to find what they really want, if they can find it at all.
7. Soon, someone smart creates a better search engine that reduces the time it takes to find what you need. One that gives you all the facts, opinions and news not just the pre approved ones.
8. The company pushing the censorship can not stop the outflow of consumers. Even if they stop other companies from growing their search engines, consumers will simply stop using the product because it is no longer worth the time.
9. End result the censorship fails in the long run. Company loses consumers, revenues, & faces more competition among other things. At the same time those not censoring have a advantage over the one who is. If it's not a free market doesn't matter, the customers leave either way

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1. Mini Thread on Conflicts of Interest involving the authors of the Nature Toilet Paper:
https://t.co/VUYbsKGncx
Kristian G. Andersen
Andrew Rambaut
Ian Lipkin
Edward C. Holmes
Robert F. Garry

2. Thanks to @newboxer007 for forwarding the link to the research by an Australian in Taiwan (not on

3. K.Andersen didn't mention "competing interests"
Only Garry listed Zalgen Labs, which we will look at later.
In acknowledgements, Michael Farzan, Wellcome Trust, NIH, ERC & ARC are mentioned.
Author affiliations listed as usual.
Note the 328 Citations!
https://t.co/nmOeohM89Q


4. Kristian Andersen (1)
Andersen worked with USAMRIID & Fort Detrick scientists on research, with Robert Garry, Jens Kuhn & Sina Bavari among


5. Kristian Andersen (2)
Works at Scripps Research Institute, which WAS in serious financial trouble, haemorrhaging 20 million $ a year.
But just when the first virus cases were emerging, they received great news.
They issued a press release dated November 27, 2019:

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