Well done. The song is just stupid political publicity Qmamon style without one single smart line. Nothing valuable is lost
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
#322Something 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)
I believe banishment was a much more common punishment in feudal kingdoms than execution.
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ok - can someone explain to me how this is funny? Use small words please, I want to understand
Humor is subjective
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#324I'm out of the loop, but I've been seeing "Let's Go Brandon" posts on a certain subset of the internet that I keep my eye on, so this headline and source doesn't surprise me. I think I'm better off judging this book by it's cover and not telling Youtube how to run their house.
"I'm okay with youtube censoring memes that make fun of the president"
Youtube could pivot to nothing but cat videos tomorrow and they would be perfectly in the right to do so.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/ If I recall correctly, the Biden administration and the CDC both made public statements telling everyone that they would no longer need to continue wearing masks once they were vaccinated.
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Yes, vaccines prevent you from ending up in the ICU, but they aren't preventing the spread.
Did you think the vaccines would prevent you from contracting covid?
Wear your masks people.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube instantly demonetized, put behind triple community warnings, and removed from search the video "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI ) which was sourced only from things the CIA / US Government have formally admitted on the record as having done in the past.
Videos like this are only accessible in some countries if you provide YouTube with a government ID. In my country YouTube blocks a number of videos from public broadcasters this way.
Let me introduce a temporary workaround to you https://www.youtubeNSFW.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
No? They're a platform, the artist is the publisher.
A publishing house publishes a book that an author writes. Digital platforms want to have it both ways - they want to (in some cases manually!!!) curate and censor recommendations, search results, and plain uploads, while also retaining their platform protections. The libertarian stance on this issue is completely untenable. I know an Olympic gymnast who can’t perform gymnastics that well.
The libertarian stance would be to repeal CDA 230. I don't know any libertarians that prefer statutory law to common law.
"Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state power, but some libertarians diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing economic and political systems."
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trillion dollar company won't allow better antitrust laws to happen, because they are allied with the currently ruling party. This is a true symbiosis: the Party will see that no laws that harm the Company are passed, and Company will stop the spread of any information harmful to the Party.
> This is a true symbiosis: the Party will see that no laws that harm the Company are passed, and Company will stop the spread of any information harmful to the Party. Probably no relation with the 2014 Princeton study published on the Cambridge University Press that determined the United States of America to be an Oligarchy rather than a Democracy. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... > Bu…
If the Presidency were an oligarchy, neither Bill Clinton nor Barack Obama could have become President. And Trump could have never won, since most of the power groups were overwhelmingly against him winning, and he won solely due to his populist voter base - democracy in action in fact. Trump also raised drastically less money than Hillary Clinton did; if there's an oligarchy trying to pick presidents it was against him, not for him. His win partially invalidates the Princeton premise.
Neither Bill Clinton or Obama came from or had money. Neither had fathers in their lives or immediate great families of consequence. Neither had long-tenured national political experience. Oh yeah, and Obama is half black. The oligarchy chose Obama over Hillary Clinton? They had no choice is what actually happened.
Just because the study came from Princeton, that doesn't mean it's not idiotic.
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I'm okay with youtube censoring memes that make fun of the president"
Youtube could pivot to nothing but cat videos tomorrow and they would be perfectly in the right to do so.
And that would be perfectly fine, but only if Youtube's CEO stops giving speeches about free speech being a core value
Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
#330Apparently 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.
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Sure... keeping all the rap that promotes murder, gang membership, robbery, crack and heroin dealing literally numbering into the hundreds of thousands of tracks on Youtube, and millions of other videos promoting the same and worse are totally fine to stay up there and this censoring totally has nothing at all to do with politics, right? I'm not for censoring any of the available music on Youtube but you cannot try and sit here and tell anyone that removing a track like this one, has anything to do with "reducing harm."
This is silencing political free speech and I'd bet a ton of money the United States government has a line of communication with, and has told Google to remove content like this. "HackerNews" should consider changing the site name to something more along the lines of "LiberalGroupthinkingProgrammerNews"
/kill fake hackers.