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What classifies as distribution?
YouTube hosting the art. YouTube gets to decide what YouTube shows to its users.
So they are they a publisher?
YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
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#152No, 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…
All they had to do was sit tight, leave it alone and let it be forgotten. Countless others and I would never have seen it. Thanks to Google's censorship, people will now know about this song.
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#153So, now you cannot make even art with dissident ideas. Welcome 1984!
The art was made without issue. Distribution is not a right.
Tech companies, controlling the distribution, now determine what is or isn't dissidence.
It may not be 1984, maybe something from Neuromancer or Snow Crash (I forget which) where big corps control the information that is considered acceptable for the plebs.
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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.
Like news shows local or national. Dislike the dropping of race when describing suspects at large but identifying gender.
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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…
What about GoDaddy? https://gizmodo.com/godaddy-is-giving-texas-abortion-snitchi...
You got me with this one. Actually threatening someone directly is worse than being an antivaxxer... Guess that's my cutoff point? Just shoot me in the head, I'm sick of this world.
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That young man must feel so bad for this to be his moment. I hope it doesn't overshadow his other accomplishments.
The reporter? He’s shown himself to be dishonest. In a similar style to Baghdad Bob. When reporters lie then there careers should be over.
*she. the reporter was a women.
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#158i 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?
You draw the line when you have a monopoly company with a trillion dollar market cap.
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This is actually a different rapper, the article is referring to Bryson Gray. Either way, I don't see the medical misinformation. https://genius.com/Bryson-gray-lets-go-brandon-lyrics
> Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember) How you woke, but you haven't opened your eyes? (You ain't see) I mean, I know there are pockets of people who believe that saying vaccines don’t work is telling the truth, but broadly speaking, saying that vaccines are fake and don’t work is considered misinformation related to medicine.
He didn't say they didn't work? He said it was lies that they stop the spread.
We now know of vaccinated people dying of covid, some right after being vaxxed, some months after, some after getting a second dose.
The lyrics can be interpreted a few ways. Was the vaccine then supposed to absolutely stop the spread and give absolute protection to a vaccinated person?
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> Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it probably that part?
I'm not much of a modern rap music person, however, by the 90s rap standards this doesn't seem that inflammatory.
Exactly what I thought. I disagree with the video and lyrics, but there's bigger rappers that have been peddling conspiratorial, third eye awakening wish-wash for at least 20 years.
This is a weird video to target, and I feel like there's bigger fish to fry w.r.t. harmful misinformation edit: about COVID. Mostly that the most dangerous misinformation is that which can actually convince people to believe untruths, something I doubt this video can do (it seems to preach to the choir). But who am I to know how their algorithm works?
The irony is that the incoming Streissand Effect will generally be meaningless. The increased exposure to this song is unlikely to convert people (there's really only one verse about COVID) and the outrage from the Right is unlikely to budge YT policy because there's a strong argument for it being misinformation. So it's pointless, circuitous outrage.