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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 makomk »

loonster wrote: post #9
mc32 wrote: post #2

No, it’s not because that. It barely has a “verse”. They just don’t like the traction it’s getting and the anti narrative it promotes. If it were F@ck Donald (whatever) and everything else the same it would still be up. The rest is nothing but naked excuse. There are so many medically misleading things on YouTube —just look at dieting. They cause harm. Let me see them pull those. Nah, they won’t. Honestly, I think “P…

Its a bad song and I don't want to listen to it to get all the lyrics. [0] >Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it, ayy, ayy (They just planned it) >Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember) That is all I can see as far as "medical information" goes. What a joke. This song is bad, it would have fallen off the charts if they just let things go. [0] https://mychords.net/en/bryson-gray/157414-bryso…

>Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember)

Thing is, if I remember rightly Biden did spread outright misinformation that falsely claimed the vaccine was a lot more effective than it actually is using his platform as president, and got checked on it by the BBC (though maybe not the mainstream US media)...

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

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Post by kadoban »

syspec wrote: post #99
kadoban wrote: post #91

Article goes out of its way to avoid saying what's actually in the song or video.

That seems to be a really common thing! It's incredibly frustrating when reading some articles about someone being cancelled or the like.

It's a speciality of Fox News. It promotes the outrage well when you leave out the actually objectionable part. Others do it as well of course.

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

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Post by undersuit »

I'm out of the loop, but I've been seeing "Let's Go Brandon" posts on a certain subset of the internet that I keep my eye on, so this headline and source doesn't surprise me.

I think I'm better off judging this book by it's cover and not telling Youtube how to run their house.

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

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Post by ChrisClark »

kyle_martin1 wrote: post #95
MisterBastahrd wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You had power. You sued for the right to do what these platform providers are doing, and the courts agreed. Congratulations.

Patience little one, it’ll happen.

[flagged]

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

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Post by bserge »

mancerayder wrote: post #84

Apparently the 'misinformation' trope has extended into art. Many of you defending censorship in the last few years (and very much so on HN) on political grounds are going to be changing your minds in the coming years due to stuff like this.

This better not get to hosting providers or it all goes to shit.

Sure, big platforms censoring stuff is bad, but people still have the choice of renting a server and hosting whatever they want.

If your website, hosted on a dedicated machine that you rent from OVH or whatever (and probably Amazon, but I wouldn't trust them) or co-locate in a datacenter, can be taken down on claims of misinformation, that's it, RIP free Internet. It was nice knowing you.

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

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Post by golemiprague »

jayski wrote: post #65

i disagree with censoring. but i want to pose a question. if i have q WordPress blog on a $5vps, and you post a comment saying my blog post is stupid. its my vps,im paying for it, i can delete the comment if i want right? where do you draw the line? how big exactly does my blog have to get before this is considered big tech censorship?

Youtube in my eyes is no different to utilities and it is even more of a monopoly than many other utilities. Your blog is curated because you are the editor and as such it is just like any other publication.

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

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Post by tw04 »

kyle_martin1 wrote: post #92
gigatexal wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Silencing people and pretending it’s OK is not going to work. It’s a double edge sword. Because one day they’re going to silence you. The math doesn’t work out long term.

Rewind 100 years: what was your avenue for “being heard”? The radio and newspapers had no obligation to regurgitate your thoughts.

Nobody is stopping him from touring the country to spread his message. Same as it always was.

I personally post 0 on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube and I manage to get by in life just fine.

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

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Post by repsilat »

kyle_martin1 wrote: post #92
gigatexal wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Silencing people and pretending it’s OK is not going to work. It’s a double edge sword. Because one day they’re going to silence you. The math doesn’t work out long term.

I don't know. I agree that refusing to do business with someone is a finite source of political power, but the cost is short-lived. The video gets taken down, but once the news cycle completes the creator will upload to Youtube next time around, and the positive economies to scale (network effects) make limited, repeated application of this power sustainable.

I think it's counter-productive because of my politics, but I don't think it's ineffective or futile.

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