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

Post by glogla » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

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psyc wrote: post #125

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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.

Honestly I don't think it's that they identify as entrepreneurs or business owners, I think it's just that they identify as progressives, and there is an incredibly prominent pro-censorship current in modern progressive ideology. I say this because I've definitely interacted with many people in real life who are not the "entrepreneur" or "pro corporate" types yet happily cheer on the censorship being practiced by big…

Post by orhmeh09 » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 9:48 PM UTC

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You draw the line when you have a monopoly company with a trillion dollar market cap.

Just create and apply better anti-trust laws and break up the monopolies. (Specially since most platforms got their almost monopolies by creating anti-competitive walled gardens with no inter-operation with other similar platforms a la Fediverse / ActivityPub / Diaspora / Friendica) Or better yet, promote counter-anti-desintermediation: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Counter-Anti-Disintermediatio... > The idea of dis…

Post by hihihihi1234 » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

jollybean wrote: post #186

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I'm not much of a modern rap music person, however, by the 90s rap standards this doesn't seem that inflammatory.

It's a pandemic. We're in a Public Health Crisis in which 700 000 people have died. We have medicine to give people which is safe, and almost guarantees they won't die, and material chunk of the population won't believe it, due to information like this. I have 0 problem whatsoever with large, public information clearing houses suppressing anything that is counter factual during the emergency. If they were taking down…

Post by city41 » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 9:51 PM UTC

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jfrunyon wrote: post #183

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"Biden said the jab stopped the spread, it was lies. How you WOKE but you haven’t opened your eyes?"

Flagged for some reason, so I will post it again: Are you implying that the pandemic is over?

Post by calsy » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC