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YouTube is not a monopoly and you do not have any right to any kind of creators or audience at all. If McDonald's mistreats you, and every other restaurant tastes like garbage to you: tough titty, but that doesn't provide grounds for the govt. to regulate McDonald's.
We decide whether those grounds exist or not.
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Weinstein ist describing himself like that. Dude's just a (supposedly) entertaining grifter.
Joking about something doesn't change the fact that he is a trained physicist, nor does it change the OP's misleading description. "Attempted foray into another field", indeed.
There are so many intellectual red flags bundled into a person it beggars belief seeing so many people on HN being ensnared by such a totally obvious grifter.
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Here's the flipside to your point: "Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of mRNA Vaccine technology." - here he is discussing Ivermectin with Bret Weinstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY Another video Bret had to re-upload and only a short amount of it, because YouTube removed the original and gave him a strike for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q01LUg97eto
What does Dr Malone say about ivermectin?
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> What else should scientists do than challenging the status quo? Sure, and I rather suspect there are all sorts of venues that scientists could use to communicate scientific reasons challenging the status quo, ones in which there'd be a process of discourse with other domain experts capable of independently evaluating claims. YouTube is significant mass media. But the idea that it's a crucial early stage link in the…
I think spreading new thinking on treatments for a pandemic that is killing millions, might actually be "crucial". May turn out to be right, may turn out to be wrong, but we've already seen lots of "wrong" information turn out to have been actually right, and the successful censorship of that "wrong-but-soon-to-be-right" information was in retrospect unfortunate, to say the least.
Wish a day could go by where i don’t here from a weinstein about how they are being silenced
And yes he is everything you are going to say he is but so is Rachel Maddow.
Supporting the establishment has its benefits as it always has for as long as humans have had socially stratified societies.
Consider these stories that have been recently spun:
- Origins of Covid. For a while, it was 'settled' that a lab leak was totally a wacky conspiracy. Somehow the science has become unsettled, though.
- It seems there really was a laptop owned by a major politial candidate's son. (And it seems to have have contained some conversations that reveal same son likes to use the n-word)
- It turns out the story about why people were tear-gassed out of a park was totally false. This was a major news headline during a hot political campaign.
We are being lied to!
No matter how you like to vote, you should favor honest news and legitimate science. YouTube shutting down dissenting PhDs and MDs seems like it's not a good thing.
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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.
I think people expect the competition to be too perfect of a substitute when it comes to the internet. You are picking the most competitive market - burger joints - in an industry that everyone is forced to partake in: food. On a calorie basis, McDonald's and Burger King actually have some of the most cost effective foods. To me, it is like asking "who is the competitor to Costco? A membership bulk-only retailer, onl…
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I think people expect the competition to be too perfect of a substitute when it comes to the internet. You are picking the most competitive market - burger joints - in an industry that everyone is forced to partake in: food. On a calorie basis, McDonald's and Burger King actually have some of the most cost effective foods. To me, it is like asking "who is the competitor to Costco? A membership bulk-only retailer, onl…
That's true from the perspective of users, but not content creators. 3Blue1Brown can't put videos on Netflix or Disney+, and I don't think Twitch would work. It's the content creators that are cornered YouTube's effective monopoly on serving user-uploaded videos with ads.
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This is not an issue around the safety of Ivermectin, as it is an incredibly well-known drug that is now off patent. This is a discussion around efficacy. It is similar to the MD asks around using a Zpak for Covid.
I agree with highlighting efficacy as a main discussion topic as well. However, I disagree the controversy doesn’t include arguments around drug safety. As long as the FDA has guidance up like this [1] it’s going to be a part of the discussion. [1] https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
This is a serious failure of the FDA. ivmmeta.com is a meta-analysis of all ivermectin studies (58 studies as of now). This meta-analysis shows ivermectin to be very effective, and the FDA isn’t even looking. This has been the situation for 9 months now.
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That's true from the perspective of users, but not content creators. 3Blue1Brown can't put videos on Netflix or Disney+, and I don't think Twitch would work. It's the content creators that are cornered YouTube's effective monopoly on serving user-uploaded videos with ads.
From the content creator viewpoint, I concede the landscape is much different. But again, is “user-uploaded videos with ads” what we are really talking about? They can sell their own ads and roll their own hosting quite easily. What you really mean is “user-uploaded videos with ads with the reach of YouTube” but of course there’s only one #1 user-uploaded video website.
That comment makes the issue sound a lot more slippery and ill-defined than it really is. If you're a small content creator, YouTube is your only option. It is actually quite simple; you don't have any plausible way to get people on your website, you won't get any views on Vimeo and you can't monetize it there, and Tiktok won't work unless you're running at most a few seconds. YouTube has a total sector monopoly on doing business with 3Blue1Brown.