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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 undersuit »

blast wrote: post #83
Zigurd wrote: post #58

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Some things are not a matter of opinion. The "plandemic" reality you have constructed in your head is not actual reality. What the horse paste eaters are doing is like having an opinion against gravity and jumping from a height to show their faithfulness to an unreality.

Sure, but that's not an argument for censoring it, especially when you consider all the lyrics out there that don't get censored.

If you'd like those lyrics to be censored you may also make a stink about it. Youtube has a report functionality.

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Post by dolni »

tw04 wrote: post #108
kyle_martin1 wrote: post #92

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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.

Radios and newspapers also did not present themselves as a way for the average person to make themselves heard. But you are onto something here - the problem is that there is a massive disparity in the power of an individual's discourse versus a radio or newspaper.

Now look at YouTube and Twitter. They amplify the voices of many average people, but only those who tow their political line. This makes it appear as though some ideas are more widely supported than they actually are. It's the same problem as with radio and newspapers, but it is exacerbated more than 1000 fold.

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Post by [deleted] »

bserge wrote: post #114
gigatexal wrote: post #87

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They also take down content of people who threaten to kill themselves. Out of sight, out of mind, amirite? When they come for your honest thoughts, no one will be there to save you. Platforms should be neutral. But it's kinda nice they aren't. Fuck them, hopefully new ones will gain traction thanks to their actions.

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

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Post by bserge »

josephcsible wrote: post #112
bserge wrote: post #106

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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 fre…

Isn't that exactly what Amazon did to Parler already?

Yeah, like I said, wouldn't trust them.

Why Parler didn't use a "normal" hosting provider, I don't know.

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

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Post by psyc »

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.

I don’t expect many minds to change. I predict the “‘private’ [misnomer] companies can do what they want [broadly false]” crowd to dig in and rationalize why art is not a special case. My own hypothesis is they personally identify with the corporations, e.g. they are entrepreneurs or might want to become entrepreneurs someday.

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Post by CheezeIt »

twofornone wrote: post #37

Tech bros are now the gatekeepers of information for hundreds of millions of eyes (not just youtube, also google search manipulation, facebook algos, arguably outlets like netflix...maybe not Amazon yet) and here about half of the western world is cheering on the suppression. How can someone place so much trust in this suppression without even seeing what's being censored? Is it just a deliberate blissful ignorance?…

It’s not the “bros” who are doing this.

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

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Post by convery »

glhfgg wrote: post #105

We have a treasure trove of the last few years of the internet (thanks to archive.org) showcasing that the majority opinion of HN and others is “someone I don’t like is being censored, therefore it’s OK.”

Combined with the usual "it's not censorship if it's a private company doing the censoring" but getting really upset when someone doesn't want to bake a custom cake..

Sadly even reasonable opinions are quickly squashed on this site. e.g. from this thread: https://i.imgur.com/e5i9BzE.png

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

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Post by bobmaxup »

makomk wrote: post #101
loonster wrote: post #9

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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)...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/22/joe-biden/...
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