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

The quote is calling the statement "the vaccine will stop the spread of covid" a lie. That statement can be a lie only if the vaccine can not stop the spread. An overly optimistic prediction wouldn't be a lie, so the quote must be calling the vaccine ineffective at best. Regardless of whether the pandemic is over or not, the statement isn't a lie and therefore the quote is incorrect. The vaccine significantly slows t…

> The vaccine significantly slows ths spread

Based on what data do you come to that conclusion?

The vaccination rate of a country is not correlated with its covid infection rate:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

And after 3 months of being fully vaccinated, people are just as likely to spread the virus as unvaccinated people:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

From the article:

> Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time. In people infected 2 weeks after receiving the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, both in the UK, the chance that an unvaccinated close contact would test positive was 57%, but 3 months later, that chance rose to 67%. The latter figure is on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus.

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

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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)...

I also remember during the debates Trump was talking up the vaccine and Bidens says something like "And who is going to take it?"

It was rather cool to be anti vaccine 1 year ago. Now its verboten.

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

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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…

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

Right? We (the US) have enough trouble planning meaningful infrastructure in our communities, let alone a global conspiracy in order to bring about some new world order, apparently coordinated with every other world government.

But, I’ve heard the “planned” argument levied against the CCP, and that it was a bio weapon, and this was a planned release. That argument, while still far fetched, is at least in the realm of possibility for me.

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

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I think it's childish to act like you're being wronged, and threatening a defiant tantrum "this is Stalinist bullshit, keep saying it, louder" in response to someone else deciding not to host some disinformation. Are you truly the victim today, in this pandemic?

He is being wronged, as are you. Each and every time a company takes freedom away from their users they are being wronged, and when the company is as big as Youtube then we all get wronged. The "defiant tantrum" is simply taking the stance that that is not admisible, how you consider that to be childish behavior I don't even know. >Are you truly the victim today, in this pandemic? So give up freedoms, for the common…

You don't have the freedom to murder, enslave, or kidnap. I don't think you should have the freedom to spread a deadly disease.

Especially since COVID-19 spreads without symptoms, we have to prioritize prevention.

Besides, we've had our freedoms eroded time and again since the World Trade Centre attacks. Why are some Americans choosing now to draw a line in the sand? Because previously the laws were targeting brown skinned people. And now there's a Democrat in charge, so Republicans want to cause strife and division to get elected in 2022 and 2024.

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

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

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972291.

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

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> YouTube has no obligation to be a champion of free speech. Unless we decide that they do, notwithstanding your declaration. I understand that you like censorship that you agree with, so it would probably be better to ask you about this when they start censoring things that state legislatures interpret as "critical race theory," or for claiming that a government official is being dishonest.

>Unless we decide that they do, notwithstanding your declaration. No, they're a private company. "We" don't get to decide what their obligations are.

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

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Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester.

I don't understand the allegories to feudalism when jesters who crossed a line weren't censored but executed. (I would guess specially if they expressed or supported any sort of anti-monarchy or anti-their-monarchs viewpoints)

maybe peasant is a better allegory; he works the lord's lands solely at the lord's discretion, keeps a tiny share of what is produced and is ejected at will

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

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I was unaware that we interpret poetry literally in 2021.

You're acting as if your interpretation is the only valid one. Since not everyone will interpret "the jab stops the spread" as "the pandemic is over", the best we can do is interpret "the jab stops the spread" as ... wait for it ... "the jab stops the spread".

My interpretation would be closer to "the jab slows the spread".

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

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Uh. The video that says vaccines don't work on covid, and talks about Joe Biden's death conspiracy? Why are ... why are we quoting Fox News credlously again? Has HN not learned, yet?

Honestly, I support the right of YouTube to not host content they don't want to host, given they own the data centers. This dude is free to get a record deal, play live on the street, or distribute music in any of the other thousands of ways that don't require uploading to YouTube.

But this is still silly. It's a song. Rage Against The Machine has a song claiming the FBI staged the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and it's the most popular song from The Matrix soundtrack. And an iconic, great song that I love, for what it's worth, even though I doubt the truth of that claim.

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

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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.

> Many of you defending censorship in the last few years

It's beyond parody. If this was twitter, I'd be bringing out the clown emoji.

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