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

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> 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…

Executive power is different from legislative power and the later is the one most involved in policy-making.

Additionally it is a very weird presidentialist take to criticize a study on only the presidential election outcomes of a two-party state.

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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.

You could make the same argument about any commonly administered vaccine if only 58% of the population are vaccinated. There were a number of outbreaks of measles several years ago when the localized percentage of people vaccinated dropped below 95%.

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

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"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.

There are many extraordinarily biased US media companies out there. In theory, YouTube can become one more. And that is fine.

But these companies are a lot less respectable than YouTube has been to date, and people know what they are getting.

The issue here is YouTube's standards are changing and that deserves to be discussed. And condemned, it is change for the worse (even if in some sense it is probably inevitable).

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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

I see this argument a lot. The counter-argument is surely that not everybody involved in malfaescence / corruption / conpsiracy has to be in on it [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

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> Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it probably that part?

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

Didn't Eminem rap about wanting to kill the president?

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Youtube doesn't care. It can't have antivax stuff on their platform because advertisers don't want their ads on controversial content.

I think that's changing as challenging the vaccine efficacy or risk profile has become less controversial in the last month. Been sent about half a dozen videos in last week with high viewership and they haven't been removed. This is probably because all of Northern Europe has essentially banned Moderna due to myocarditis risk, and data from many countries, even the CDC's own, show the vaccinated now getting infected…

Any links I can read more about this?

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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.

Yes, vaccines prevent you from ending up in the ICU, but they aren't preventing the spread. This portion of your comment in particular is false. People who receive two COVID-19 jabs and later contract the Delta variant are less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta. Relevant Nature article (October 5, 2021). However, good job on the masks part, please keep wearing them! :-) [1]…

Less likely != prevent

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

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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.

I wonder if Google will eventually have an Offical Party Line on everything. Then they'll just censor straight down the line.

That would probably be more acceptable than the way they are doing it now, at least in my view. If they had come out and said "we are pro Biden and used our platform to get him elected, and we have deleted this video because it insults our buddy," I'd be much happier with that. It's their platform...they can try to get their favorite tree elected President next time for all I care. The false labeling..."medical misinformation" in this case...is what I have a huge issue with.

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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…

> I have 0 problem whatsoever with large, public information clearing houses suppressing anything that is counter factual during the emergency. That's precisely the problem though. The rule at Youtube is any content that goes against CDC/WHO guidelines is considered "misinformation". So to your point: > If they were taking down information about a doctor challenging Health Authorities in a very Scientific manner, tha…

The WHO/CDC positions are consistent with the prevailing science.

If someone went on YouTube to articulate the current scientific consensus of Ivermectin, which is that "There is no evidence to support it as a therapy for COVID, but that there are currently studies in progress which could yield important information, and in the meantime, people should definitely not be taking it as it can be dangerous unless administered by Health professionals" - I'm doubtful such a video would be taken down.

Anyone talking about COVID 'cures' in public forums for which there is no scientific consensus, during a pandemic, should definitely come under heavy scrutiny.

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Yes, vaccines prevent you from ending up in the ICU, but they aren't preventing the spread. This portion of your comment in particular is false. People who receive two COVID-19 jabs and later contract the Delta variant are less likely to infect their close contacts than are unvaccinated people with Delta. Relevant Nature article (October 5, 2021). However, good job on the masks part, please keep wearing them! :-) [1]…

Less likely != prevent

They are helping to prevent. You are truly grasping at straws here.
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