YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

Post by polynomial » Fri, May 22, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

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Youtube Vimeo Name the next five that are discoverable, host your videos for free, and can stream that to millions of people in a single day.

> ... discoverable, host your videos for free, and can stream that to millions of people in a single day No one has an inalienable right to any of these features, let alone to all of them in a neat package. The organizations that invest ingenuity, capital and labor to create platforms with those features do have a right to set terms on how their platforms is used. I don't get how the solution to what is seen as corpo…

Post by foolinaround » Fri, May 22, 2020, 12:05 AM UTC

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>Total censorship doesn't happen overnight. The gates slowly close little by little. beautifully stated. Or the more common "boiling a frog slowly" If we do not fight for our freedoms, our children will get used to the reduced freedoms as a 'new normal' and it will only get more repressive

Boiling a frog slowly is a sound argument against any form of heating even while you are freezing to death. Existing platforms could be misused by private actors in a way that negatively effects the populace. Arguably most of the people presently concerned are either a majority of bad actors or a minority of idealists concerned about future potential. To the worthy minority I would suggest that difficult to censor pl…

Post by cthor » Fri, May 22, 2020, 12:08 AM UTC

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I don’t agree with the interview contents, nor think professorship alone gives sufficient credibility in the face of a novel pandemic, data of which is in the process of emerging. That said, I don’t want youtube to be in charge of deciding what is credible or not. They don’t have in-house experts on these domains, they don’t have a magic epistemology machine that spits out the “facts”. They are good at writing web se…

And on the other end of the spectrum we have people being indoctrinated into violent conspiracy groups like QAnon, or being prompted to set fire to cell towers, or bringing measles back from the dead, because of YouTube videos. There's a line to be drawn here - and it's a tricky line, to be sure - but "YouTube should be totally neutral and not pull anything" is not a viable answer.

Post by 2019-nCoV » Fri, May 22, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

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The abhorrent "safe space" culture was mostly contained to college campuses a decade ago. Unfortunately, every large left-leaning organisation across the US is now deeply steeped in it. You reap what you sow.

If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That would have a different ideological narrative attached, though. But I think, fundamentally, the motivations for a big tech company are different from those of a university. Universities are most interested in preven…

Post by mikemotherwell » Fri, May 22, 2020, 12:34 AM UTC

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Unlike most other European countries, Sweden is not increasing its sovereign debt load by 15+% of GDP to keep the citizenry afloat. That’ll feel a lot more important than Covid in 5 years.

I think this is likely a biased view. If you ask the families of the 300+k people who died from Covid-19 they probably won't consider the economic impact to be the most significant.