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Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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Re: Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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Unpopular opinion: I don’t like this. Would much prefer that ideas compete. Id sort of give Amazon a pass since, unlike twitter, Reddit, Facebook & YouTube, it doesn’t make many promises regarding the free exchange of ideas. But still.

Vaccination is not "a competing idea".

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post #5

Unpopular opinion: I don’t like this. Would much prefer that ideas compete. Id sort of give Amazon a pass since, unlike twitter, Reddit, Facebook & YouTube, it doesn’t make many promises regarding the free exchange of ideas. But still.

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Re: Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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It would be better to leave them up but force a disclaimer to scroll along the bottom the entire doco proclaiming factless and fictional in nature. I don't think hiding from these issues is the appropriate response. Nor is pouring gasoline on the fire fueling these conspiracy theories.

Isn’t there an in-between of doing nothing? Asking Amazon to publish an opinion is a pretty big ask. At least deleting the item doesn’t necessarily imply a position.

Irrespective of whether or not anti-vaccine should be suppressed, Amazon wouldn't delete a video they agreed with and thought was helpful to their brand. Eliminating undesirable media absolutely implies an opinion. The closest analogy I can think of is, if I burnt a book from my personal library, what would you infer about my opinion of its contents?

Re: Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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post #5

Unpopular opinion: I don’t like this. Would much prefer that ideas compete. Id sort of give Amazon a pass since, unlike twitter, Reddit, Facebook & YouTube, it doesn’t make many promises regarding the free exchange of ideas. But still.

To me, this action says "We have chosen not to publish material, that is based on indisputably false premises, that may harm viewers and the public at large."

That sounds like an acceptable line to me.

Re: Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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Good

Silencing ideas is not the way to correct them...

How well has letting people air these ideas worked? Compare the number of Nazis in Germany (and hate crimes committed by same) vs. Lost Causers in the American South and their hate crimes.

It's one thing to hold a belief in a certain threshold for freedom of speech. It's another thing to state without evidence that it has better outcomes.

Re: Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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post #8
post #3

It would be better to leave them up but force a disclaimer to scroll along the bottom the entire doco proclaiming factless and fictional in nature. I don't think hiding from these issues is the appropriate response. Nor is pouring gasoline on the fire fueling these conspiracy theories.

Isn’t there an in-between of doing nothing? Asking Amazon to publish an opinion is a pretty big ask. At least deleting the item doesn’t necessarily imply a position.

> Asking Amazon to publish an opinion is a pretty big ask.

It's not an opinion.

Re: Amazon Removed Anti-Vax Documentaries from Prime Video

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post #12
post #5

Unpopular opinion: I don’t like this. Would much prefer that ideas compete. Id sort of give Amazon a pass since, unlike twitter, Reddit, Facebook & YouTube, it doesn’t make many promises regarding the free exchange of ideas. But still.

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There are some that would say that a government should not be able to force you to inject things into your own or your children's bodies. They would call that tyranny.

Much of the pro-choice argument regarding abortion is based on the idea that you own your own body.

My kids get vaccinated, but I sympathize with the anti-vaxxers arguments regarding governmental force.

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