Covid: India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from content

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Covid: India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from content

22 May 2021

India's government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the "Indian variant" of Covid-19.

The IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to "Indian" was false.

Geographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the UK and Brazil.

India's government has faced criticism over its handling of Covid-19.

It also drew anger last month after it ordered Twitter to remove posts critical of some of its actions during the pandemic.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57213046

[Pachamama]

1. It is the India Variant

And here in California we have multiple California Variants....

Saying there isn’t and trying to hide it doesn’t make it go away or not true.

I am very worried about what the Indian Government is doing in its handling of the COVID pandemic. And even Pfizer BioNtech said it’s vaccine is 75% effective against the Indian Variant...

75%...

That’s a 25% chance of not being effective. And how many more mutations and double mutations of the various variants allowed to spread will make it a lesser efficacy or little at all?

[3Hotdogs]

2. Yeah, but does it result in Indian/Amer getting attacked in future --

after our fine "patriots" get through attacking other Asians?

In other words, does putting a geographical name on a disease endanger people from that region?