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

Post by OrvalWintermute » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:51 PM UTC

geofft wrote: post #236

fabianhjr wrote: post #210

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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…

The most coherent plans in recent times to do exactly that came from Elizabeth Warren. It would have solved the problem elegantly. But people are too partisan (and too fractally partisan within their parties) to listen to a good idea from a person they don't like. https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...

Post by actually_a_dog » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:52 PM UTC

fabianhjr wrote: post #256

unclebucknasty wrote: post #242

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The idea of treating as a monopoly problem is interesting, but I'm not sure how you prevent centralization like this from repeating itself in the future, given that it is built on network effects. At the end of the day there will be a concentration of audiences somewhere , so I don't think this problem goes away. What I wonder is whether at a certain point we actually need to protect people from themselves. I get how…

> given that it is built on network effects. Network effects can happen in a federated or decentralized way: - Email is useful regardless of the software, OS, server or owner of the address you are sending emails to. - The fediverse benefits from network effects and interoperability between instances with both different software and different communities. I would even go further and argue that centralized "network ef…

Post by kpommerenke » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

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franga2000 wrote: post #259

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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 arti…

Post by OrvalWintermute » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

downandout wrote: post #312

I wonder if they will ban videos about them banning this. This seems like a uniquely stupid hill to die on, regardless of how biased they are toward Biden.

Post by hackflip » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

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city41 wrote: post #237

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Italy is at 80% and they still see the need to ban unvaccinated people from places. New Zealand is planning to ban unvaccinated people form places after we reach 90% of over-12-year-olds. So even with a massive 80% vaccinated, the vaccine doesn't stop the spread. Maybe it would at 90%? 95%? Who knows. In New Zealand, the unvaccinated are largely the indigenous Maori, not stereotypical anti-vaxxers.