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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 elicash »

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…

His name was actually Brandon. That's not the WH reclaiming anything, that's just his name.

(And yes, I'm aware of the Brandon meme.)

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

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Post by undersuit »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Fuck off plague rat.

Ban me if needed dang.

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

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Post by YZF »

OrvalWintermute wrote: post #518
YZF wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First let's deal with the nitpicky semantics. R0 is is the basic reproduction number while R generally denotes the effective reproduction number. I am talking about R. There's indisputable evidence that the vaccination is impacting R. While it's true that the accuracy of estimates for R depends on many factors and certainly there have always been some cases flying under the radar (though that has been studied extensi…

> There's indisputable evidence that the vaccination is impacting R. I think you are misusing the word indisputable, since clearly, people are disputing it. > While it's true that the accuracy of estimates for R depends on many factors and certainly there have always been some cases flying under the radar (though that has been studied extensively via antibody studies and other means) proxies like the number of people…

You're making it sound like the people looking at this are idiots. Of course this is tracked across age groups. Look at the BC data where it's broken down by age.

Also are you suggesting that the relative portion of the population in certain age groups has changed dramatically? Because otherwise you can still look at the aggregate as indicators.

Sorry if I'm misusing the work indisputable. English is not my mother tongue. Looking at the dictionary I also don't think it means what you think it means. Someone can dispute anything. We could say gravity is indisputable but someone can come and say there's no gravity. People say the earth is flat. Possibly in this day and age nothing is indisputable.

From where I stand, given the evidence, the people who say something like "vaccination has no impact on R" are not far from people claiming the earth is flat. I mean maybe the earth is flat. Even the guy who responded to me saying I was wrong then changes his mind on that.

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

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

_yoqn wrote: post #396
WaitWaitWha wrote: post #306

Social media cannot embrace the immunity and authority, but none of the responsibility.

Social media can and does have both. The whole point of Section 230 immunity is to basically neutralize the platform's responsibility so in that case they shouldn't care who says what and let the opposing sides battle each other on the merits of what's being said. So why do they maintain huge and cumbersome speech codes and rules of what can be said on their platforms? It's simple. Threat of regulation. The tech mono…

Well, also threat of losing advertisers, which is their major source of income.

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

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Post by undersuit »

pauldenton wrote: post #435
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.

What other public health crises are YouTube dealing with? There's many counties that have high fentanyl or drug overdose death, higher than covid. Does YouTube ban rap songs that detail that drug use? That talk about how to make meth in a coke bottle or crack out of cocaine? How about the public health crisis of single motherhood. If you look at life outcomes of kids with 1 parent instead of 2, not only are they more…

There's not a disinformation campaign about opioids.

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

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Post by undersuit »

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

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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?

How do you know the host of the party you're crashing is correct when he tells you to leave?

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

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Post by downandout »

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…

This is a fascinating tweet on many levels.

1) I think it's safe to assume that Joe Biden has no SEO expertise, which means that someone with the power to send the President of the United States out for a photo op does. They went out and found someone named Brandon for Biden to pose for a photo op with.

2) To me it's terrifying that Presidential actions are now being dictated by SEO concerns, but it is interesting.

3) I would have expected this kind of thing from Trump, since he was obsessed with his public image. But apparently Biden, or at least someone close to him, is similarly obsessed.

4) Reading between the lines, the fact they responded in this way makes it appear that the administration is becoming concerned with the the growing anti-Biden sentiment that has arisen in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle and issues with cognitive decline that are becoming increasingly harder to hide. That town hall was a disaster [1].

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-town-hall-strange-moments...

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

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Post by undersuit »

poorjohnmacafee wrote: post #223
undersuit wrote: post #103

I'm out of the loop, but I've been seeing "Let's Go Brandon" posts on a certain subset of the internet that I keep my eye on, so this headline and source doesn't surprise me. I think I'm better off judging this book by it's cover and not telling Youtube how to run their house.

"I'm okay with youtube censoring memes that make fun of the president"

I am.

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

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Post by caddemon »

robbrown451 wrote: post #365
paulpauper wrote: post #131

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how about removing videos showing people smoking, because that too is bad for health

If it is a medical doctor saying that there is science that says that smoking is good for you.... I'm taking a wild guess here, but I'm pretty sure that's getting taken down. At least if it starts getting lots of views. Because it would be a dangerous lie.

We are talking about the music video for a rap song, not anybody claiming to give legitimate medical advice. The song is pretty dumb IMO, but I do not like to see tech companies deplatforming art because of "misinformation". Who the hell gets their information from rap music?

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

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Post by undersuit »

NullPrefix wrote: post #329
brewdad wrote: post #324

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Youtube could pivot to nothing but cat videos tomorrow and they would be perfectly in the right to do so.

And that would be perfectly fine, but only if Youtube's CEO stops giving speeches about free speech being a core value https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683575

Oh so we need to suppress the free speech of someone else to protect you?
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