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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 JasonFruit »

DaveExeter wrote: post #82
JasonFruit wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know a gentle, polite way to point out that you've hit every platitude in its most thoughtless, vacuous form: - You can still disagree with a private company - We as a society are thoroughly divided on that, and many disagree that issues of rights and morality are decided democratically - Political speech you disagree with has value

I have certainly not hit "every platitude"! I left out the "protecting our children" platitude. Thought it might be a little bit over the top. ;-) In any case, I think Glenn Greenwald has the best take on internet censorship: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...

I stand corrected. You also didn't say that I should move to Somalia. I should be grateful.

I agree about Greenwald's take there.

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

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Post by JPKab »

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

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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.

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…

The assumption that material like this is the reason people don't believe the government is just that: an assumption.

What evidence do you have that this is what drives people to not believe the things the public health establishment wants them to believe?

You don't have any evidence because it's not possible to prove this.

I should also point out that you have misinformation in your statement.

You are stating that covid will eventually pass. This virus is now endemic and is not going to go away. You do realize this, right?

The vaccine is very effective in minimizing the risk of hospitalization and/or death but it is a leaky vaccine. Leaky vaccines will never eradicate any virus and instead will simply promote various mutations.

Blame unvaccinated people for many things but you can't blame them for the persistence of this virus. It's not going to go away.

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

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Post by s5300 »

_fat_santa wrote: post #192
whymauri wrote: post #160

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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, and I feel like there's bigger fish to fry w.r.t. harmful misinformation. Mostly that the most dangerous misinformation is that which can actually convince people to believe untruths, something I doubt this video can do (it seems to preach to the choir). But who am I to know how their algorithm works? It's really simple. They took down the video because it's critical of Biden and th…

> It's really simple. They took down the video because it's critical of Biden and the guy is wearing a MAGA hat. Someone at YT probably saw the video, said to themselves "fuck this guy", and then looked through the lyrics to find one offending word or phrase, and used that as an excuse to ban the guy.

Practicing for the mental gymnastics Olympics are you now

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 #383
actually_a_dog wrote: post #338

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That depends. Am I spreading misinformation?

Who's the authority on what's disinformation?

What makes you think that's relevant to what I'd do?

You didn't answer my question.

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

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Post by artificialLimbs »

jayski wrote: post #65

i 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?

When the government is in command of what you take down, that's a pretty strong line.

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

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Post by loonster »

ameminator wrote: post #250
loonster wrote: post #9

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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.

I should have worded my post better. I dont want to listen to the song (again) to find out exactly what was said.

After the reading the news article in full, I found the video and watched it once in full. After that, I searched and found the lyrics to the video. I'm over explaining, but I'm rate limited.

I dont see much that would support the reason YouTube gave for banning it.

FWIW, I am against censorship.

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Post by jquery »

lettergram wrote: post #468

For those who think this isn’t political, check out what they posted on the POTUS Twitter the day before https://twitter.com/potus/status/1451544259992203266 The goal of this is to reclaim “let’s go Brandon” and it’s obvious. EDIT: for those who don’t know what “Let’s go Brandon” means, a child comment linked to a 40 second video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8asiDn2_A&feature=youtu.be For those who don’t watch or…

Reclaim “let’s go Brandon” from what, exactly? Never heard the phrase until now. I googled it and all I got was a shoddily written Fox News article that didn’t link to the alleged source interview, claiming it was a huge internet meme now.

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

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Post by artificialLimbs »

atleta wrote: post #462
ggdG wrote: post #303

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> The vaccination has been thoroughly shown to work 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 vaccin…

> The only thing that remains, is some protection against symptomatic disease. And sever disease needing hospitalization and death. And these indeed the things we want to avoid. Both as individuals and as a society. Because if/when hospitals fill up then you have a trouble. This is what people don't get. (They also don't get that they could end up in a hospital or a morgue with some probability, so I don't even menti…

Not so universal a health care system, it seems. Looks like Hungary has one of the lowest life expectancy rates in the EU.

Sorry to hear about your friends' father.

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Post by finite_jest »

adrr wrote: post #310
calsy wrote: post #239

In most cases, well publicised censorship of art backfires and provides more notoriety and fans for the artist.

Youtube doesn't care. It can't have antivax stuff on their platform because advertisers don't want their ads on controversial content.

I don't think that is true. At the very least, they can classify these kind of things (and probably already do) and let advertisers choose if they want their ads on them or not.
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