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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 #24

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YouTube's bar for "medical misinfo" ladies and gentlemen...

What is the substance of your argument: that the "pandemic" is not a medical matter, or that "ain't real" is not misinfo?

It's a song, not a scientific journal article.

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

#172

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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.

you sound silly stubbing for fox lies this way and trying to pretend it's ethically pased

neither of those cover this. nobody takes neal stephenson seriously that way. take a class

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

#173

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Does it really matter? Clearly it would be in the realm of satire or political humor, things liberals have historically been very vocal about protecting.

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Who's lying? Satire and humor are not lies.

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

#174
post #91

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

I'm curious if it was substantially different than other variations on "Let's Go Brandon" songs, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DClYso2FA

Note: Just curious. Didn't even know about this "Let's Go Brandon" thing until now.

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

#175
post #15

Try to spot medical disinformation: https://crownlyric.com/2021/10/19/loza-alexander-lets-go-bra...

You really need this help, champ?

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

That's medical disinformation.

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

#176
post #125

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.

> My own hypothesis is they personally identify with the corporations,

I used to be like that and I remember defending YT censorship as I thought I would probably wanted to be able to do the same had my project took off. It took me a long time to realise I was wrong.

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

#177
post #83

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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.

It's much simpler to just not watch it. Deprive them of the ad revenue.

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

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post #9
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…

anyone who thinks this is planned can never have been involved in any form of government

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

#180
post #166

Something's wrong when the jester is found to have played a huge part in electing a leader of a leading world power.

How dare the lowly jester, part of the serf class, have any say in electing a leader. Only divine right and having went to Harvard should qualify a leader!
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