YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
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YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
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#2This is really scary. People who warned of the slippery slope of censorship were definitely right.
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#3I had to Google what a Nootropic even was.
TL;DR It is suggested they improve cognitive function (memory, focus, etc.). They are not fully regulated and you can find examples for sale on Amazon. As such, no idea if short or long-term usage is safe but it's interesting product if you simply read what the labels claim.
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#4Who is YouTube to decide what I can and can't watch?
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#5This is really scary. People who warned of the slippery slope of censorship were definitely right.
There's a difference between "removing false/misleading videos that perpetuate a scam" and Fahrenheit 451
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#6Who is YouTube to decide what I can and can't watch?
The owners of the platform. They are not a public service nor to they have to pretend to be one.
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#7YouTube will probably remove fitness videos soon, since some people invariably are stupid and will hurt themselves with the exercises on display, a completely analogous situation.
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#8I had to Google what a Nootropic even was. TL;DR It is suggested they improve cognitive function (memory, focus, etc.). They are not fully regulated and you can find examples for sale on Amazon. As such, no idea if short or long-term usage is safe but it's interesting product if you simply read what the labels claim.
It's also a pretty decent album released in 2012 by Lower Dens.
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#9"Cronin’s YouTube channel was up to about 22,000 subscribers when he received a notice from YouTube about one of his videos, “Relax and Improve Your Sleep with Natural Calm Magnesium.” The notice said the video had been removed for violating YouTube’s community guidelines, but didn’t specify further."
Magnesium isn't even a nootropic. That is, while it may have some ability to boost cognition, it isn't a substance primarily ingested for that reason. It is a substance primarily ingested so that the person ingesting it will stay alive.
A quick cruise around Duck Duck Go suggests that while science isn't saying you should use magnesium for sleep per se, it isn't necessarily a crazy idea in desperate need of being censored. Certainly the idea that magnesium is generally deficient is widespread, with estimates around 50% not meeting the US RDA for magnesium in the US, and while magnesium may not be a good solution for insomnia qua insomnia, it can be a good solution for many things that may be causing you to be "unable to sleep"[1], whether or not that is "insomnia".
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_deficiency_(medicine...
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#10Who is YouTube to decide what I can and can't watch?
YouTube isn't deciding what you can watch, they are deciding what they are going to use their resources to show you. You can still watch whatever you want, provided you don't use YouTube's resources.
As to who YouTube is to make that decision: they are the entity providing the resources.