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YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Post by akersten »

anonymousiam wrote: post #28
akersten wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific... and now banned as coronavirus misinformation. Evidently his health is disputed by our social media overlords. They must know more than the doctor. Do you have a source for that frankly outrageous claim?

Which claim? Maybe you are looking for this: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/twitter-labels-trump...

The claim that "The president's medical report got banned," which I quoted, verbatim, in my post.

Flagging something as misinformation is not "banning." And Trump claiming he's "immune" has nothing to do with the report in question.

Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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knaq wrote: post #8
anonymousiam wrote: post #2

This is the slippery slope of censorship on display for everyone to see. What panel of certified physicians is YouTube using to identify what information is correct vs. incorrect? I'm pretty sure they don't have any doctors doing this. The ban is a political act and not a scientific one.

This is getting way out of hand, across all social media. The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific... and now banned as coronavirus misinformation. Evidently his health is disputed by our social media overlords. They must know more than the doctor. Today it was a ban on posting links to the stuff leaked off Hunter Biden's hard drive. It confirms tha…

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Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Post by ojnabieoot »

anonymousiam wrote: post #12
knaq wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is getting way out of hand, across all social media. The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific... and now banned as coronavirus misinformation. Evidently his health is disputed by our social media overlords. They must know more than the doctor. Today it was a ban on posting links to the stuff leaked off Hunter Biden's hard drive. It confirms tha…

Fully agree, and I'm not sure why you were modded down. I guess the answer is that the censorship of unpopular views is okay with most people. This could be an innocent consequence of our click-bait culture, or it could be something more sinister.

Speaking personally: I downvoted them because the thing about blocking Trump's medical report is just not true.

FYI: "getting downvoted on HN because my comment is spreading false rumors" is not an example of censorship.

Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Post by anonymousiam »

ojnabieoot wrote: post #27
knaq wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is getting way out of hand, across all social media. The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific... and now banned as coronavirus misinformation. Evidently his health is disputed by our social media overlords. They must know more than the doctor. Today it was a ban on posting links to the stuff leaked off Hunter Biden's hard drive. It confirms tha…

> The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific. Which services banned Trump's recent medical report? I would have assumed "Twitter blocks Trump medical record release" had been in the news and cannot find a single story about it. There was this tweet from Trump (not his doctor) that got flagged as containing COVID-19 misinformation, but was not deleted[…

"COVID-19 recovery definitely does not provide immunity to reinfection."

If the above is true, then there is no hope for a vaccine.

Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Post by ojnabieoot »

anonymousiam wrote: post #34
ojnabieoot wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The president's medical report got banned, probably because it was good news. It was dry, factual, scientific. Which services banned Trump's recent medical report? I would have assumed "Twitter blocks Trump medical record release" had been in the news and cannot find a single story about it. There was this tweet from Trump (not his doctor) that got flagged as containing COVID-19 misinformation, but was not deleted[…

"COVID-19 recovery definitely does not provide immunity to reinfection." If the above is true, then there is no hope for a vaccine.

Okay, first of all: it is 100% true that getting infected with COVID-19 does not provide immunity. There have been two cases identified of people who got reinfected after a full recovery https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/another-covid-19-rei...

Second of all, this is not how vaccines work. Recovery from an illness does not mean that your immune system was maximally effective: a weak immune response coupled with anti-viral medication and hospital treatment could mean that your immune system is not equipped to fight the virus a second time. This happens often with flus and colds.

Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Post by tux1968 »

gruez wrote: post #26
garbagetime wrote: post #24

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Science doesn't work by consensus, anyway.

It doesn't, but practically speaking for the average joe, what better option is there?

For policy makers to earn the respect and attention of the average Joe, to impart important and scientifically sound information. If they're so bad at the job that they can't refute the ideas of Covid flat-earthers, maybe nobody should be listening to what they have to say anyway.

The real issue is that the media and many authorities have squandered their trust and political capital. And now instead of building that up they want to substitute authoritarianism and censorship.

Re: YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation

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Post by stickyricky »

ojnabieoot wrote: post #33
anonymousiam wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fully agree, and I'm not sure why you were modded down. I guess the answer is that the censorship of unpopular views is okay with most people. This could be an innocent consequence of our click-bait culture, or it could be something more sinister.

Speaking personally: I downvoted them because the thing about blocking Trump's medical report is just not true. FYI: "getting downvoted on HN because my comment is spreading false rumors" is not an example of censorship.

Nit: It's a collective act of censorship if downvotes lead the comment to be removed from public view.
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