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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 exporectomy »

gremloni wrote: post #493
pmurt7 wrote: post #136

Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester.

The jester is basically spreading hate speech and harmful misinformation. There limits to iTs juST a pRAnk

Did you really live through that whole Trump-era hate speech and harmful misinformation culture and not once stop to understand what that means? Did you do nothing more than repeat slogans without passing them through your human intellect first? I dare you to define those terms so that they mean anything other than "The enemy's tribe is bad because it's not the one I happened to fall into."

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

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Post by lettergram »

downandout wrote: post #527
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…

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

Does this really surprise you?

- The opposing parties leadership is censored more than every authoritarian around the world.

- stories about Biden’s son is censored

- bad stories about Biden are censored

- every person connected to the opposing party is being “investigated”

- the DOJ literally sent out a statement saying they were going to investigate parents going to school boards as “domestic terrorists” (at worst, these are local crimes, if at all)

- anyone who has claimed election interference on the 2020 election has been threatened with lawsuits, lost jobs, etc

- a majority of the opposition media figures are censored

- no one could attend the inauguration even

What does this all have in common? They want the opposition to have no voice and theirs to be the only one you see. They try to intimidate and censor such that they have the only voice. “Let’s go Brandon” was too hard to censor, so they’re now doing this. Remove, rewrite, repeat

The reason I say that is now opposition content is removed, they can put out their content.

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

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Post by exporectomy »

veb wrote: post #404
exporectomy wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Italy is at 80% and they still see the need to ban unvaccinated people from places. New Zealand is planning to ban unvaccinated people form places after we reach 90% of over-12-year-olds. So even with a massive 80% vaccinated, the vaccine doesn't stop the spread. Maybe it would at 90%? 95%? Who knows. In New Zealand, the unvaccinated are largely the indigenous Maori, not stereotypical anti-vaxxers.

I think you'd find that Māori are doing OK. Better than Pacific Islanders. But yes, there's hard-to-reach people in every ethnicity. What I've enjoyed is the orgs who are vaccinating Māori and Pacific Islanders - always tell the community to come along even if you don't fit in either ethnicity, you'll still get a jab. I just love that. It's the way it should be! We're all people, let's look after each other.

In contrast to Whānau Waipareira which tried to exclude non-Maori by using a password to restrict access to vaccines? https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/09/act-leader-d...

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

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Post by elicash »

downandout wrote: post #531
elicash wrote: post #521

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're stating you think it's obvious. But I would argue it's highly unlikely, and frankly a bit silly.

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

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Post by _haoa »

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.

Even Wikipedia engages in strategic censorship on behalf of the three letter agencies.

Case in point: this article[0] was removed from Wikipedia without good reasoning. It would seem that the name of the article itself was inflammatory enough to the powers that be.

[0] https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/List_of_authoritarian_re...

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

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Post by _kbh_ »

lettergram wrote: post #542
downandout wrote: post #527

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> To me it's terrifying that Presidential actions are now being dictated by SEO concerns, but it is interesting. Does this really surprise you? - The opposing parties leadership is censored more than every authoritarian around the world. - stories about Biden’s son is censored - bad stories about Biden are censored - every person connected to the opposing party is being “investigated” - the DOJ literally sent out a s…

I'd like to see evidence for a lot of these claims that come from reliable sources cause I don't think the majority of them are true.

> - anyone who has claimed election interference on the 2020 election has been threatened with lawsuits, lost jobs, etc

I feel this is an especially interesting claim because the only people i've seen get hit with law suits for this have continually defamed specific companies and not just someone shouting in the street that it was fraudulent.

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

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Post by downandout »

lettergram wrote: post #542
downandout wrote: post #527

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> To me it's terrifying that Presidential actions are now being dictated by SEO concerns, but it is interesting. Does this really surprise you? - The opposing parties leadership is censored more than every authoritarian around the world. - stories about Biden’s son is censored - bad stories about Biden are censored - every person connected to the opposing party is being “investigated” - the DOJ literally sent out a s…

It's only surprising in that they have, to this point, largely shrugged off criticism. Jenn Psaki, for example, has been extremely dismissive of any criticism whatsoever. Now, I think they are realizing that the (white)house is on fire, and it appears that they feel like they have to respond and cannot dismiss/gaslight their way out of it.

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

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Post by fullshark »

calsy wrote: post #239

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

In most of the cases you remember you mean, in the vast majority of the time you never heard about it and it was successful.

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

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Post by downandout »

_kbh_ wrote: post #546
lettergram wrote: post #542

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To me it's terrifying that Presidential actions are now being dictated by SEO concerns, but it is interesting. Does this really surprise you? - The opposing parties leadership is censored more than every authoritarian around the world. - stories about Biden’s son is censored - bad stories about Biden are censored - every person connected to the opposing party is being “investigated” - the DOJ literally sent out a s…

I'd like to see evidence for a lot of these claims that come from reliable sources cause I don't think the majority of them are true. > - anyone who has claimed election interference on the 2020 election has been threatened with lawsuits, lost jobs, etc I feel this is an especially interesting claim because the only people i've seen get hit with law suits for this have continually defamed specific companies and not j…

I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that the Hunter Biden stories weren't suppressed until after the election. Those stories and corresponding evidence were around before the election. They were completely buried wherever possible, and dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream media when they couldn't bury them. It was only after the election that they were forced to admit that the Hunter Biden stories were factual.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nomilk wrote: post #535
downandout wrote: post #527

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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