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Article goes out of its way to avoid saying what's actually in the song or video.
Does it really matter? Clearly it would be in the realm of satire or political humor, things liberals have historically been very vocal about protecting.
Wow, that's a lot of flagged comments and banned users simply saying censorship is bad. No narrative being pushed here at all, move along..
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Flagged for some reason, so I will post it again: Are you implying that the pandemic is over?
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How has this been shown?
Countries with a high vaccination rate don't have a lower infection rate than other countries:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7
And after 3 months of being fully vaccinated, whatever level of immunity you had is completely gone by then:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus.
The only thing that remains, is some protection against symptomatic disease.
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Flagged for some reason, so I will post it again: Are you implying that the pandemic is over?
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In New Zealand, the unvaccinated are largely the indigenous Maori, not stereotypical anti-vaxxers.
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.
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I'm not much of a modern rap music person, however, by the 90s rap standards this doesn't seem that inflammatory.
Exactly what I thought. I disagree with the video and lyrics, but there's bigger rappers that have been peddling conspiratorial, third eye awakening wish-wash for at least 20 years. This is a weird video to target, and I feel like there's bigger fish to fry w.r.t. harmful misinformation edit: about COVID. Mostly that the most dangerous misinformation is that which can actually convince people to believe untruths, som…
> This is a weird video to target
So we can all agree that YT isn't arbitrarily censoring anti-authoritarian conspiracy theories, but is specifically censoring conspiracy theories related to COVID? This seems like a good thing, that they are casting a narrow net, no? Would you prefer they censor ALL anti-authoritarian conspiracy theories?
Of all the scenarios where censorship could be called for, fighting misinformation harmful to public health in a global pandemic seems like a reasonable fish to fry.
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You're acting as if your interpretation is the only valid one. Since not everyone will interpret "the jab stops the spread" as "the pandemic is over", the best we can do is interpret "the jab stops the spread" as ... wait for it ... "the jab stops the spread".
My interpretation would be closer to "the jab slows the spread".
Edit: and while we're here, here is politifact's take:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/14/joe-biden/...
Concluding it's "half true" fits this thread well :)
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When you say “just do x,” you make it sound so simple. You’re missing out “just do all of this keeping in mind you’re trying to change the law using lawmakers who are personally invested in these companies that have more resources than many nation states.”
I mean in opposition of legislating on what "big tech" specifically can or cannot remove or host on their platforms in comparison to small blogs like the example up thread.
In most cases, well publicised censorship of art backfires and provides more notoriety and fans for the artist.