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

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post #109

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…

This is silly. You have alternatives, but you still are dismissing them. You could similarly say that if "McDonald mistreats me, where I'm going to go? Wendy? or Burger King? no one is going there" Also your argument with electric company doesn't make sense, in this you could maybe compare it to an ISP, which I agree should be treated as an utility. YouTube is just one of many services available. Your only argument a…

Well, what's the BurgerKing of YouTube? I don't think there is one. At best Google has Bing, but I think the performance gap is a lot bigger than the gap between chains.

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

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Youtube Alternatives : Centralized : Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Vidlii Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube

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..

My blog doesn't have as big a reach as the front page of Apple.com, but that doesn't mean they have to put my content on there.

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

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post #109

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…

This is silly. You have alternatives, but you still are dismissing them. You could similarly say that if "McDonald mistreats me, where I'm going to go? Wendy? or Burger King? no one is going there" Also your argument with electric company doesn't make sense, in this you could maybe compare it to an ISP, which I agree should be treated as an utility. YouTube is just one of many services available. Your only argument a…

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

#125

YouTube's position is that this is medical misinformation about Ivermectin. One of the comments on this Twitter thread argues the video "isn’t just advocating for more complete Ivermectin trials, he’s recommending its use based on a collection of low quality studies. That’s dangerous, and I don’t see how you can blame YouTube for deferring to the advice of the major health bodies on this matter." Personally I'd never…

“ YouTube's position is that this is medical misinformation about Ivermectin”

Its medical information by a medical Dr. Its unclear who advices YouTube.

As to the FDA, theres a long list of by government agencies making mistakes. Thats why open debate in necessary in an open society.

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

#126
post #109

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This is silly. You have alternatives, but you still are dismissing them. You could similarly say that if "McDonald mistreats me, where I'm going to go? Wendy? or Burger King? no one is going there" Also your argument with electric company doesn't make sense, in this you could maybe compare it to an ISP, which I agree should be treated as an utility. YouTube is just one of many services available. Your only argument a…

> YouTube is just one of many services available. With around 75% market share. Yes, competitor Vimeo exists. Without the aid of the Internet, name a second alternative.

Self hosted? If you mad about centralization, de-centralize

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

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post #111

It's hilarious to see libertarians whining about being oppressed by corporations. Like, dude, isn't your whole philosophy that corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want without regard for anybody else? Go start your own YouTube. It's what Galt would have done.

That is the philosophy of an anarcho-capitalist, not a libertarian (at least not one I've ever met).

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

#128
post #59

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So you are asserting they don't want to benefit from both?

Merck can't benefit from both ivermectin & their new emergency-use-authorized drug. Emergency use authorization requires "no adequate, approved, and available alternatives." [1] It's against their financial incentive to have ivermectin, an out-of-patent drug, be authorized for treatment of covid. See https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1402647948371005441... [1] https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vacci…

I don't get it. So are you saying somebody else should go for EUA for ivermectin for Covid, and then Merck couldn't go for EUA for their new drug?

Or are you saying Merck couldn't go for several EUAs for Covid at the same time?

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

#129
post #42

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1. There's no patent on Ivermectin. (Correct me if I got it wrong) 2. Merck has announced an agreement with US gov for 1.7 mln courses of anew antiviral treatment for $1.2 bln. Also they have no real argument against IM: > No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 diseas…

> Also they have no real argument against IM: > > No scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; No meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and; A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies. If "no basis for a potential therapeutic effect" is not an argument against using it, then why suggest I…

The in vitro studies show that ivermectin might be effective against covid, if given at a super high dose, higher than what would be safe.

In the topsy turvy world of ivermectin proponents, this is seen as a argument in favor of ivermectin

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

#130
post #83

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This seems to say his proposed "Theory of everything" is lacking in several regards and not a good candidate for scientific or academic research. I don't see how that makes him a clown. He's interested in physics, educated in it, and made some effort to contribute that doesn't seem to have panned out. That strikes me as laudable behavior and not like a "clown". Perhaps you'll say he is a clown because he really belie…

The same could be said in praise of every crank. Presumably if he's a crank about physics, he could also be one about Covid.

  "he could also be one about Covid."
It's not his video that was taken down, so even if true, it's irrelevant.
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