Some policies relating to Corona Virus, Covid-19 and the responses to it.

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Some policies relating to Corona Virus, Covid-19 and the responses to it.

Just to be clear,

I'm not publishing anti-mask content, not matter how many letters the doctor making claims has after his or her name.

I'm not publishing pandemic denial articles or links to pandemic denial videos.

I'm not publishing anti vaccine nonsense, unless the claims are strongly supported by links to legit sources. Questions are fair. claims that are unsupported are not.

When people make claims against safe practices, like use of masks and social distancing and the vaccine it can lead to illness and death. People like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity have been massively reviled and accused of causing deaths and suffering because of their outrageous claims. I will not be the publisher who enables that kind of messaging. I don';t want to be in the Carlson Hannity category.

So please do not submit any of that to OEN. Strong claims require strong support. That means support from legit, reputable sources, not sites that promote conspiracy theories, nor videos with questionable doctors an hour and twelve minutes into the video. And don't use studies done ten or fifteen years ago to support claims about Covid-19. They are not credible.

There are legitimate questions to ask and concerns to raise. Those are welcome. We've published many articles that ask them. We will continue to do so. But this diary sets some limits. They are site policies.

Over the almost 18 years I've been publishing OpEdNews I've been accused of censorship by a few people because I wouldn't publish their articles. Often, especially in recent cases, I haven't outright rejected the articles, I've told them to add additional perspective. Generally they're trying to sell their message, so they are not interested in perspective.

Basically, at this point, I've learned, if someone needs to go "there," it means they have gone so far, they've become former OEN members. I have my principles and I'm going to live by them. They included publishing a very open site, as OEN has been over the years, so open that it has lost a lot-- of readers, of Google search position. So be it. That is the price I pay to maintain my principles.

This policy may lead a few people to decide OEN is no longer for you. If that's so, good luck wherever you go.

While I have not consulted with the senior editorial staff of OEN on this specific diary, I have discussed the ideas with them. OpEdNews offers a forum where a vast range of ideas can be explored. It has always put some limits though. We'll continue to be a great forum for that vast range of ideas.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

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