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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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This song is similar to Flatline by B.o.B:

- Stream: https://soundcloud.com/bobatl/bob-flatline-feat-neil-tyson

- Lyrics: https://genius.com/Bob-flatline-lyrics

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatline_(B.o.B_song)

Flatline wasn't removed by the platform it was published on (SoundCloud), but it was widely ridiculed.

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

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When I advertise to consumers, it is not important to me that they believe vaccination against COVID-19 is good or not. I really struggle to think of any company for which it is important that their customers are not sceptical of vaccinations? Maybe airlines and hotels. Since I can’t see how any company would want to reject customers for making certain decisions about their health or not, it appears to me that it rat…

Many consumers may see you advertising (providing monetary support to) conspiracy theorists, and boycott you for it. Advertisers have to be concerned about being associated with "personae non gratae".

If that’s a concern then why are they targeting their ads on that content? You can easy toggle off those options in an ad manager. There are companies who wish to target that audience also, there is no need to outright ban content because of advertisers.

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…

Boris Johnson actually did something similar.

Iirc, he gave an interview where he bizarrely and repeatedly mentioned the fact that he likes to paint wine boxes like buses...over and over. And it was thought (and, most likely, leaked) that he was doing this so that when people Googled "Boris bus" it would come up with this story, and not the story about the infamous "Brexit bus" (it also leaked that it was Lynton Crosby, a well-known political campaign manager, that suggested this...which does support the claim that it isn't total bs).

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

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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 sto…

Forced to admit that what Hunter Biden stories were factual? And did any of those stories relate to Joe Biden?

Does stories about Joe Biden's son relate to Joe Biden? Are you shitting us?

Stories about Trumps children trend for weeks if there's anything negative... they don't get suppressed, questioned or challenged.

Hunter is accused of being a Crack Addict, a pedophile, selling influence, etc... each enough to sit in the media for weeks and it's all swept under the rug.

Trump supposedly says shithole and it's a national emergency... Biden supposedly gets a cut from his son's business dealings in China/Russia/etc and it's nothing.

How does Hunter relate to Joe? are you fucking serious?

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

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What is your concern? Nepotism? Do you have any such concern for the conduct of the children of the previous president? HN is not the place for this. Save this for reddit or facebook.

Surely it's selling presidential favours? The whole Hunter art work stuff is ridiculously dubious... And yes, equal concern for any president. Trump largely cared mostly about stuffing his pockets full of money.

"trump largely cared" and biden gets a cut from his family making millions on his name while he destroys America.. how is he not about "stuffing his pockets"?

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What is your concern? Nepotism? Do you have any such concern for the conduct of the children of the previous president? HN is not the place for this. Save this for reddit or facebook.

Surely it's selling presidential favours? The whole Hunter art work stuff is ridiculously dubious... And yes, equal concern for any president. Trump largely cared mostly about stuffing his pockets full of money.

My take on the Hunter Biden affair -- low level, old school, genteel corruption. Akin to the corruption that political "donations" bring.

Disclaimer, I voted for Biden but am willing to call out his failures at any time.

The reason why I'm ok with "censoring" the Hunter stories at that time is that it was purely whataboutism and a distraction. Just like with the buttery males, it was never about the professed concerns, it was about making them look bad.

If this issue (and others like it) could be discussed in a non partisan way I'd be all for it, but it's not. This hand wringing is insincere at best and should be ignored.

I've yet to see anything that indicates these concerned citizens care about principles rather than tribal politics. Happy to be proven wrong, but not holding my breath.

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Perhaps I'm one of those rare people who oppose the censorship of viewpoints I despise.

Great. Me too. I just disagree that what YouTube is doing falls under censorship. BitChute exists and works just fine. I have no problem watching InfoWars if I want to.

It's nothing like China where I would actually be risking prison if I shared something anti-government in a WeChat group.

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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 way more than a meme! "Let's go Brandon" was #1 on itunes for days. Another version was #3. Another version was #17. All at the same time! Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership. They are totally trying to sow FUD into the narrative form political purpose.

iTunes chart positions don't mean nearly as much as they used to, since music consumption has mostly shifted to streaming. It's common for meme songs or songs by artists with devoted fanbases to get to #1 on the iTunes chart, but make a weak showing on the more comprehensive Billboard and Rolling Stone charts, or not even enter those charts.

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

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It's way more than a meme! "Let's go Brandon" was #1 on itunes for days. Another version was #3. Another version was #17. All at the same time! Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership. They are totally trying to sow FUD into the narrative form political purpose.

> Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership. The swathes are huge! The hugest and huge in... in diversity too! You know, when it comes to swathes, my swathes - you see, the thing is that I... I understand the big heart you need to be part of a swathe. And I'm part of this heart. This heart... this heart is me, really. I came up with it and when I d…

That’s pretty good. It sounds like you spend more time watching Trump rallies than you might admit.

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…

We were duped! I fell for it!

News straight up lied to control the 2020 election narrative and outcome. We have watched an unprecedented fast fall into authoritarianism. Major networks are all but complete propaganda departments. Biden criticism was swept under the rug to protect him all the while the media held no punches for his opposition. Rational nuanced discussion of pandemic and related policies were off the table and we were just dictated mandates. People didn't vote for this. Our country has stumbled from one self inflicted crisis to the next as the coverage of the failures goes either unreported or censored. Kneejerk mistruths drive doomed to fail federal policy ( border control horse whips!)

This administration is so unbelievably incompetent.

People are rightly angry as hell. This discontent isn't limited to specific groups. It includes: Blacks, whites, lefts, rights, zoomer, boomer. It's not a small group either.

"Let's go Brandon" is being shouted across the country.

We should listen. We should ask why.

We were told successes were failures.

Now where told failures were successes.

People don't like being lied to or ignored.

"Let's go Brandon!"

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