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Apparently 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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https://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…
Tech bros are now the gatekeepers of information for hundreds of millions of eyes (not just youtube, also google search manipulation, facebook algos, arguably outlets like netflix...maybe not Amazon yet) and here about half of the western world is cheering on the suppression. How can someone place so much trust in this suppression without even seeing what's being censored? Is it just a deliberate blissful ignorance?…
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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.
I don't know. I agree that refusing to do business with someone is a finite source of political power, but the cost is short-lived. The video gets taken down, but once the news cycle completes the creator will upload to Youtube next time around, and the positive economies to scale (network effects) make limited, repeated application of this power sustainable. I think it's counter-productive because of my politics, bu…
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ironic that people are silencing your comment by downvoting it, haha
I've listened to the song and it's primary (only?) message is to call out a blatant lie from the news media and that we should all be critical consumers of that media.
So, now you cannot make even art with dissident ideas. Welcome 1984!
The art was made without issue. Distribution is not a right.