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YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
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#12This is really scary. People who warned of the slippery slope of censorship were definitely right.
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#13I 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.
Nootropics aren't really products in and of themselves. Caffeine is a nootropic for example. There's a pretty broad range from herbals all the way to perscriotion and illicit drugs.
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#14This 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
Depends on who gets to decide what "false/misleading" is. I'm not sure how this could be any less transparent. I personally see less than no reason to trust YouTube's judgment in these matters.
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#15YouTube 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.
Exercise is much different from research chemicals. One difference is you don't need to buy exercise from shady sites that will eventually be shut down by the FDA.
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#16Who 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space
YouTube essentially has a monopoly on video. Monopolies and other actors can be forced to comply with public space laws or to respect principles that normally apply only to the government.
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#17This 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
There are plenty of political videos being removed or demonetized as well. We are not as far off as it may seem.
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#18Without having watched any of this stuff, my assumption is these videos are not clear enough in disclaiming any confirmed medicinal or FDA-approved effects. If the content is tantamount to advertising on the level the supplement manufacturers are prohibited from (and careful to avoid) doing themselves, it's probably appropriate for YouTube to close down the channels. Especially if these YouTubers are somehow generating income from the "product reviews".
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#19This 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
The problem is, the status quo likes to label the people on the periphery who often may be on to something "a scam".
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#20If you derive a significant portion of your income from streaming video content, you should probably be using hosting sites like YouTube and Vimeo only to mirror your self-hosted content and drive traffic back to servers you control if you can.
You never know when companies like Alphabet or Facebook or Amazon or Apple will pull the rug out from beneath you and yank away that source of income, so don't stand on their rugs. If you let someone stand between you and your money, there will be someone standing between you and your money.
And as there is no way they could possibly review all uploaded videos with actual humans, much of this enforcement is done by machine detection and automated processing, and you will never get any explanation from a human, unless you are in the top 1000 accounts ranked by how much money they make for YouTube.
Not that this sort of content needs to be in video form, anyway. If I feel the need to learn about new, unregulated, or misregulated drugs, I'd prefer reading text, with as few still images as is possible to convey the needed information.