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Post by JumpCrisscross »

_holographic_ wrote: post #50
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> is a crime against humanity This is an offshoot, but I wish this form of hyperbole would stop. “Crime against humanity” is a technical term. Watering it down to refer to everything one doesn’t like dilutes it. We have actual crimes against humanity that cannot find political ground, in part due to the term’s semantic satiation.

Supressing a safe & effective drug is a crime against humanity, there is no other way to qualify it.

> Suppressing a safe & effective drug is a crime against humanity, there is no other way to qualify it

It’s not and there are.

It’s not part of a widespread or systematic policy directed against civilians by a political group of state. There were no associated crimes against peace or war crimes. Not a crime against humanity. If what you allege were happening, and were happening intentionally, it could be one among many crimes. But not this one.

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Post by marcinzm »

cm2187 wrote: post #60
marcinzm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telling doctors to not randomly experiment on their patients outside of a controlled studies seems perfectly reasonable. Most medical groups tend to view uncontrolled human experimentation as very unethical and have for a long time.

Thanks god doctors don't wait to have a random double blind experiment peer reviewed and published to act. I understand the practice of putting ICU patients on ventilators was found to be more harmful and following word of mouth, ICU specialists switched to less invasive care. Was that unethical?

The person I responded to alluded to a conspiracy while I simply pointed out that this seems standard guidance from medical groups. Which is a separate topic from it being good or bad for patients.

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Post by yhoneycomb »

pumaontheprowl wrote: post #69

If McDonald's mistreats me, I can go to Wendy's or Burger King and get a similar meal for a similar price. When Youtube mistreats me, where am I supposed to go? BitChute? Vimeo? Neither of those have even half the creators as Youtube. And if creators want to migrate off Youtube, how are they supposed to do that when they'll get less than 10% of the audience on the other sites? Youtube's moat way is too deep to be thr…

Agreed, but I think at this point the US government is too drunk on power that it'll never give up the control it has on its citizens through Youtube.

And people say the US is the land of the "free." What a joke.

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Post by MiguelX413 »

MattGaiser wrote: post #31
paulpauper wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and none of the alternatives are even 1/100 as good or have nearly the same reach as youtube, which is how youtube is able to get away with what they do. VCs are much more interested these days in payment processing, which is where the money is, than video, which is expensive and hard to monetize..

Sites that turn into landfills tend not to have very good reach nor be profitable.

Monetization is antithetical to user freedom because it requires centralization.

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Post by jb775 »

callesgg wrote: post #13

While ridiculous, Eric Weinstein is a bit over the top with his accusations from time to time. For example Blaming the physics community for not looking in to his personal “unity” theories more.

Sounds like the physics community wrote him off without actually considering his ideas because he didn't fit the charlatan-leftist mold of your typical physicist academic.

Per Wikipedia[1]: The paper qualifies that the author "is not a physicist" but an "entertainer", and it has received strong criticism from the scientific community

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#

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Post by cm2187 »

micouay wrote: post #57
fighterpilot wrote: post #49

Does anyone know what exactly was said in the original video?

The entire conversation has been uploaded to Bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/qHjNQIynVb5O/

Thanks. Couldn't load it but it looks like it is on vimeo too: https://vimeo.com/557811163

Re: “YouTube is shutting down dissenting Biology PhDs and MDs”

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Post by pumaontheprowl »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #12
yashap wrote: post #5

Based on YouTube’s reply, seems they took his video down for promoting dangerous medical misinformation. If that’s what happened, I don’t see an issue.

And how exactly do they determine whether something is "dangerous medical misinformation"? I'm guessing it's probably based on WHO guidelines, which means a very large number of things are off limits.

It basically makes it impossible to propose any new medical treatment on Youtube when their definition of "misinformation" is really just "not proven to work."

This would be more acceptable if they only banned discussion of treatments that are proven not to work, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

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Post by ALittleLight »

yashap wrote: post #5

Based on YouTube’s reply, seems they took his video down for promoting dangerous medical misinformation. If that’s what happened, I don’t see an issue.

YouTube allows pro-anorexia content and influencers to influence young girls - but having a couple PhD's discuss possible off label uses for ivermectin is going too far?

The issue is that YouTube has no ability to determine what is or isn't dangerous medical information. Running a video distribution service doesn't make you a medical expert.

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