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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

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Post by GauntletWizard »

jollybean wrote: post #186
0des wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not much of a modern rap music person, however, by the 90s rap standards this doesn't seem that inflammatory.

It's a pandemic. We're in a Public Health Crisis in which 700 000 people have died. We have medicine to give people which is safe, and almost guarantees they won't die, and material chunk of the population won't believe it, due to information like this. I have 0 problem whatsoever with large, public information clearing houses suppressing anything that is counter factual during the emergency. If they were taking down…

What is your opinion on Dr Li Wenliang, who publically contradicted official health guidelines that they were certain that there was no new SARS variant spreading in Wuhan and encouraging mask usage was spreading a public panic?

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by unclebucknasty »

fabianhjr wrote: post #210
chrisco255 wrote: post #158

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You draw the line when you have a monopoly company with a trillion dollar market cap.

Just create and apply better anti-trust laws and break up the monopolies. (Specially since most platforms got their almost monopolies by creating anti-competitive walled gardens with no inter-operation with other similar platforms a la Fediverse / ActivityPub / Diaspora / Friendica) Or better yet, promote counter-anti-desintermediation: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediatio... > The idea of dis…

The idea of treating as a monopoly problem is interesting, but I'm not sure how you prevent centralization like this from repeating itself in the future, given that it is built on network effects.

At the end of the day there will be a concentration of audiences somewhere, so I don't think this problem goes away.

What I wonder is whether at a certain point we actually need to protect people from themselves. I get how ominous that sounds, but OTOH if large swaths of the population, say, fall prey to senseless conspiracy theories, do we just watch it play out?

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by chroem- »

city41 wrote: post #237
chroem- wrote: post #234

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Flagged for some reason, so I will post it again: Are you implying that the pandemic is over?

[flagged]

But is the pandemic over? It's clearly not, and that was the point of the lyric. Countries with 90%+ vaccination rates are still having lockdowns because of breakthrough cases.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by glhfgg »

robocat wrote: post #222

Lyrics: [Intro: Joe Biden & Bryson Gray] The various shots the people are getting now cover that They're-, they're-, they're okay You're not gonna-, you're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations Somebody gotta do it Ayy [Chorus: Bryson Gray] Let's go, Brandon I keep a drum like I'm Nick Cannon, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy (Brrt, brrt) Let's go, Brandon Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it, ayy, ayy (They just…

Lol yup. Banning is right.

Fuck dang.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by op00to »

ofou wrote: post #140
undersuit wrote: post #109

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The art was made without issue. Distribution is not a right.

Just to provide context "NIH admits Fauci lied about funding Wuhan gain-of-function experiments" [1] If there's no one even making art with borderline lyrics, nobody may realize there's something besides the status quo. I'm not saying that I agree with all dissidents opinions, but I strongly disagree with messing with art. It's music for god's sake. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972283

It’s always something.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by city41 »

chroem- wrote: post #243
city41 wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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But is the pandemic over? It's clearly not, and that was the point of the lyric. Countries with 90%+ vaccination rates are still having lockdowns because of breakthrough cases.

You're adding things that aren't there. The lyrics are just "the jab stops the spread." That is true.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by bmarquez »

chroem- wrote: post #234
jfrunyon wrote: post #183

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"Biden said the jab stopped the spread, it was lies. How you WOKE but you haven’t opened your eyes?"

Flagged for some reason, so I will post it again: Are you implying that the pandemic is over?

You're probably getting flagged because the parent commentator is quoting the lyrics of the song (in quotation marks), as a response to someone asking what was in the video.

Your question should be directed at the creator of the video, not the HN user.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by kyle_martin1 »

TameAntelope wrote: post #155
intricatedetail wrote: post #151

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So they are they a publisher?

No? They're a platform, the artist is the publisher.

YouTube makes opinionated decisions about what gets in their search results. They edit their search results and have a team that decides that goes on the front page. That's editing. YouTube is a publisher.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by glogla »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #228
glogla wrote: post #224

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What do you think the people who now shout "censorship" would say if few years ago, someone sugested "the tech giants should be regulated with regards to what content they host and follow due process when removing content"? The tech giants are unregulated. They can do what they want. They want this for some reason, so they do it. What is the alternative?

Doing what random HNer's want, apparently. Disrupting industries by straight up breaking the law: totally ok. Choosing what content your website will and will not host: absolutely monstrous. That's tech culture in a nutshell.

I mean, "the tech giants have enormous control over society, monopolistic positions and levels of vertical integration and trilions of cash at hand that make it impossible to fight them in market, can we do something about it?" is definitely a good discussion to have.

Not sure if "they should be hosting dangerous antivaxx content during global pandemic" (that some people claim doest actually exist because of previous content) is a good way to kick that discussion off.

(I realize this particular video possibly isnt that dangerous.)

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Post by ameminator »

loonster wrote: post #9
mc32 wrote: post #2

No, it’s not because that. It barely has a “verse”. They just don’t like the traction it’s getting and the anti narrative it promotes. If it were F@ck Donald (whatever) and everything else the same it would still be up. The rest is nothing but naked excuse. There are so many medically misleading things on YouTube —just look at dieting. They cause harm. Let me see them pull those. Nah, they won’t. Honestly, I think “P…

Its a bad song and I don't want to listen to it to get all the lyrics. [0] >Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it, ayy, ayy (They just planned it) >Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember) That is all I can see as far as "medical information" goes. What a joke. This song is bad, it would have fallen off the charts if they just let things go. [0] https://mychords.net/en/bryson-gray/157414-bryso…

You don't have to listen to the song. You don't get to tell others what they can or cannot listen too.
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