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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 mechanical_bear »

jfrunyon wrote: post #190
no_butterscotch wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He didn't say they didn't work? He said it was lies that they stop the spread. We now know of vaccinated people dying of covid, some right after being vaxxed, some months after, some after getting a second dose. The lyrics can be interpreted a few ways. Was the vaccine then supposed to absolutely stop the spread and give absolute protection to a vaccinated person?

How is saying that "it was lies that they stop the spread" different from saying "they didn't work"? He said vaccines don't work. You also said vaccines don't work. And that's just simply not true.

In some cases, they do not.

But they work often enough and to a high enough degree of efficacy that we still should bother.

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

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Post by formerly_proven »

fabianhjr wrote: post #164
collegeburner wrote: post #48

You want to see worse? Youtube has shadowbanned this song from search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_F_XQrukM Search "Let's go brandon" and it should be the number 1 result, it's #23 on trending for music still, it was #1, and it peaked at #1 on itunes hiphop charts for US. But you don't get it unless you search for "let's go brandon song", which makes me think somebody messed with it.

Youtube instantly demonetized, put behind triple community warnings, and removed from search the video "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI ) which was sourced only from things the CIA / US Government have formally admitted on the record as having done in the past.

Videos like this are only accessible in some countries if you provide YouTube with a government ID. In my country YouTube blocks a number of videos from public broadcasters this way.

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

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Post by loonster »

jaspergilley wrote: post #187
loonster wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All news is manipulation. The only difference is how you are being manipulated and by whom.

That's such a nihilistic false equivalence. Get a subscription to The Economist - their business model disincentivizes manipulation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Group

Owners: Agnelli families (43.40%) Rothschild, Cadbury, Schroder Layton

This is supposed to be a group that abhors manipulation?

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

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Post by throwbigdata »

herbstein wrote: post #227
jlawer wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it says it was a lie that vaccines would stop the spread. I see that for shorthand that the whole response wasn’t managed properly as the “spread” still happened. I don’t think it’s a fair criticism of Biden, but it’s a rap song, which tends to encourage a bit of hyperbole.

You're ignoring this line. Not exactly subtle what is being said. > Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it

Do we really know this is false? I think it is but don’t know so. It’s quite unlikely but not impossible.

Banning alternative points of view is a slippery slope.

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Post by bashonly »

Quekid5 wrote: post #218
ipaddr wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like news shows local or national. Dislike the dropping of race when describing suspects at large but identifying gender.

Local news in the US is largely owned by Sinclair and/or ClearChannel. (Maybe the latter is only billboards and such. It's hard to keep up with the obfuscation.)

ClearChannel got out of the television game years ago (and has since changed its name to the even-more-awful IHeartCommunications).

And Sinclair really doesn't hold a candle to Nexstar and Gray Television, who have managed to buy up the vast majority of local affiliates over the past several years.

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

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Post by chroem- »

bmarquez wrote: post #247
chroem- wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We're posting in a thread discussing why YouTube took down the song. The GP asked for what was objectionable about it. Your comment does not make sense.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by yesbut »

jfrunyon wrote: post #183
kadoban wrote: post #91

Article goes out of its way to avoid saying what's actually in the song or video.

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

> Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/

If I recall correctly, the Biden administration and the CDC both made public statements telling everyone that they would no longer need to continue wearing masks once they were vaccinated.

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

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Post by actually_a_dog »

DenverCoder99 wrote: post #270
unclebucknasty wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This "art" is not being produced in a vacuum. YouTube is fighting a problem with disinformation that has significant implications on a public health crisis. I don't see why they should respond any differently, simply because someone is singing the disinformation.

How do you know that Youtube is always going to be correct when they take down anything for disinformation?

Who cares? Whatever they take down, they can always put back up.
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