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Patience little one, it’ll happen.
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Do you have any evidence of this? Have you been paying attention or just listening to what media has been telling you what to think?
Did I trigger you?
YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
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Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#112Apparently the 'misinformation' trope has extended into art. Many of you defending censorship in the last few years (and very much so on HN) on political grounds are going to be changing your minds in the coming years due to stuff like this.
This better not get to hosting providers or it all goes to shit. Sure, big platforms censoring stuff is bad, but people still have the choice of renting a server and hosting whatever they want. If your website, hosted on a dedicated machine that you rent from OVH or whatever (and probably Amazon, but I wouldn't trust them) or co-locate in a datacenter, can be taken down on claims of misinformation, that's it, RIP fre…
Isn't that exactly what Amazon did to Parler already?
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#113https://variety.com/2021/music/news/youtube-will-not-ban-yg-... When songs promote robbing Asian people YouTube says “ In a memo to staff explaining the rationale for not barring the YG video, management wrote: “We’ll start by saying we find this video to be highly offensive and understand it is painful for many to watch, including many in Trust & Safety and especially given the ongoing violence against the Asian com…
Assaulting Asian people isn't incompatible with an explicit whitehouse policy initiative and in that example the artist wasn't wearing an "impeach biden" shirt. Edit: People keep responding to this comment claiming that the video didn't feature an impeach biden shirt, then deleting their comments when they realized what they saw was a video using the same name exploiting the fact that the real video is hidden. :) If…
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Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#114Apparently the 'misinformation' trope has extended into art. Many of you defending censorship in the last few years (and very much so on HN) on political grounds are going to be changing your minds in the coming years due to stuff like this.
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They also take down content of people who threaten to kill themselves. Out of sight, out of mind, amirite?
When they come for your honest thoughts, no one will be there to save you.
Platforms should be neutral. But it's kinda nice they aren't. Fuck them, hopefully new ones will gain traction thanks to their actions.
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
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Silencing people and pretending it’s OK is not going to work. It’s a double edge sword. Because one day they’re going to silence you. The math doesn’t work out long term.
Rewind 100 years: what was your avenue for “being heard”? The radio and newspapers had no obligation to regurgitate your thoughts. Nobody is stopping him from touring the country to spread his message. Same as it always was. I personally post 0 on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube and I manage to get by in life just fine.
Sure, "no obligation", I think their critics agree with you there. This isn't a conversation about rights, it's a conversation about values. This action shows that Youtube doesn't strongly value being a neutral platform, and people are disappointed.
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#116Apparently the 'misinformation' trope has extended into art. Many of you defending censorship in the last few years (and very much so on HN) on political grounds are going to be changing your minds in the coming years due to stuff like this.
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ironic that people are silencing your comment by downvoting it, haha
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#117So, now you cannot make even art with dissident ideas. Welcome 1984!
The art was made without issue. Distribution is not a right.
I disagree that we’re talking about rights at all. I think the issue is really norms and expectations. Do we really need to invoke the heavy hand of law and government as the ubiquitous standard for what is acceptable?
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And your expectation came true. Front page then no page.
Very sad... I guess this kind of censorship / denialism is becoming an accepted practice in certain circles. I would have thought the moderators here are bigger than that.
It’s typically due to people like me flagging it, as we’ve found from experience that the discussions are usually pretty tedious.
This place is no democracy, though, so dang sometimes brings them back. And that’s ok.
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#119i disagree with censoring. but i want to pose a question. if i have q WordPress blog on a $5vps, and you post a comment saying my blog post is stupid. its my vps,im paying for it, i can delete the comment if i want right? where do you draw the line? how big exactly does my blog have to get before this is considered big tech censorship?
You're falling victim to the sand heap fallacy. Sure, some sites would be gray areas, but it's obvious that a personal blog that can run on $5 per month is on one side of the line and YouTube is on the other.
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