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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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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.)

It's pretty obvious that they went out and found someone named Brandon to have a photo op with. This was an SEO play.

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

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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.)

It's pretty obvious that they went out and found someone named Brandon to have a photo op with. This was an SEO play.

What are the chances of finding someone with the name Brandon though??

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

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Well established scientific concensus. If you're referring to anything related to Covid there's no well-established scientific consensus it literally just happened around year and a half ago it's impossible to have scientific consensus. Even the most respected scientists are saying they don't know about a lot of things related to covid. also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post . Galileo wa…

> also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post Genuinely asking, how should I evaluate truth in a subject matter that I myself don't have a doctorate in if the standard of "what is general consensus among the people with doctorates in the subject" isn't reasonable?

What evidence is there that a general consensus on a thesis indicates that it is necessarily true? Is it rational simply to accept a consensus, effectively taking something on faith?

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

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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…

The 'reclaim' phenomenon is fascinating. I presume all politicians do this, well, all who have staff sophisticated enough to grok SEO and respond within a few days to unfavourable trending topics.

Would be interested to know other examples of prominent politicians doing this. I'm pretty sure I recall a British politician doing this a year or two ago. I can't remember exactly who it was or what it was about, but I recall it seemed very obvious what was going on - moreso than this Biden/Brandon instance.

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

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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.

Its a conservative meme stemming from a nascar race where the crowd was chanting "Fuck Joe Biden" and a reporter stated the crowd was chanting "Let's go Brandon". It's now conservative slang for "Fuck Joe Biden"

Thank you for the straightforward explanation.

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

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It's pretty obvious that they went out and found someone named Brandon to have a photo op with. This was an SEO play.

What are the chances of finding someone with the name Brandon though??

If you're looking for one? 100%.

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

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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…

The 'reclaim' phenomenon is fascinating. I presume all politicians do this, well, all who have staff sophisticated enough to grok SEO and respond within a few days to unfavourable trending topics. Would be interested to know other examples of prominent politicians doing this. I'm pretty sure I recall a British politician doing this a year or two ago. I can't remember exactly who it was or what it was about, but I rec…

Boris Johnson: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-n...

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

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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.

In many cases, advertisers have been pressured by activists on pain of having their brand actively smeared by those activists. This leaves the question open as to how much advertisers would be motivated to withdraw their custom, absent such campaigns, or the chilling effect of the possibility of such activism.
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