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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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"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.

I don't think that is correct.

They have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders.

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

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To be clear, I don't know about this case in particular, but the current administration has admitted to be in direct contact with social media platforms to tag "problematic" posts. And they may not even need to because the implicit threat is there. I used to be part of the "its a private platform" group, but I asked myself the question, what would actual government censorship look like. And I couldn't think of an ans…

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

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For those who think this isn’t political, check out what they posted on the POTUS Twitter the day before https://twitter.com/potus/status/1451544259992203266 The goal of this is to reclaim “let’s go Brandon” and it’s obvious. EDIT: for those who don’t know what “Let’s go Brandon” means, a child comment linked to a 40 second video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8asiDn2_A&feature=youtu.be For those who don’t watch or…

Reclaim “let’s go Brandon” from what, exactly? Never heard the phrase until now. I googled it and all I got was a shoddily written Fox News article that didn’t link to the alleged source interview, claiming it was a huge internet meme now.

Its a conservative meme stemming from a nascar race where the crowd was chanting "Fuck Joe Biden" and a reporter stated the crowd was chanting "Let's go Brandon". It's now conservative slang for "Fuck Joe Biden"

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

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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.

Boy am I tired of partisan politics.

Amen. I just wish that all politicians would remain more consistent in their views, or at the very least admit that they previously said the opposite but have since changed their mind.

I do not intend for this post to be anti Biden. Trump is also a hypocrite, just not on his pro covid vaccine stance.

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

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Try to spot medical disinformation: https://crownlyric.com/2021/10/19/loza-alexander-lets-go-bra...

You really need this help, champ? > Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies (I remember) That's medical disinformation.

Vaccines reduce the spread, and Biden overstated their effectiveness, which is called a lie. I really wouldn't classify the line as disinformation.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/14/joe-biden/...

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

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https://variety.com/2021/music/news/youtube-will-not-ban-yg-... When songs promote robbing Asian people YouTube says “ In a memo to staff explaining the rationale for not barring the YG video, management wrote: “We’ll start by saying we find this video to be highly offensive and understand it is painful for many to watch, including many in Trust & Safety and especially given the ongoing violence against the Asian com…

YouTube doesn’t censor enough? I agree.

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

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It's a speciality of Fox News. It promotes the outrage well when you leave out the actually objectionable part. Others do it as well of course.

This is not isolated to Fox News, whatever other problems it certainly has.

It’s worse on Fox News than other sources like the Washington Post.

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

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The study contradicts his assumptions so he is unable to take this new information and update preexisting beliefs. Or he didn't read the new study. A bunch of people are living in denial.

It seems you are using a tactic of obfuscation and confusion to derail the conversation. Seems like you’ve successfully done just that.

tell that to the study author's institutions then:

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA USA

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA

Turner Fenton Secondary School, Brampton, ON Canada

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

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post #478

For those who think this isn’t political, check out what they posted on the POTUS Twitter the day before https://twitter.com/potus/status/1451544259992203266 The goal of this is to reclaim “let’s go Brandon” and it’s obvious. EDIT: for those who don’t know what “Let’s go Brandon” means, a child comment linked to a 40 second video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8asiDn2_A&feature=youtu.be For those who don’t watch or…

Reclaim “let’s go Brandon” from what, exactly? Never heard the phrase until now. I googled it and all I got was a shoddily written Fox News article that didn’t link to the alleged source interview, claiming it was a huge internet meme now.

I hadn't actually heard of it either, from one of the first results:

> This whole thing got started earlier this month, at the Talladega Superspeedway. Brandon Brown had just won a NASCAR race. And sportscaster Kelli Stavast at one point commented during an interview with Brown afterward how the crowd seemed to be chanting in his honor: ‘Let’s go, Brandon!”

>Unfortunately, that’s not actually what they were chanting. Not even close. The crowd was very clearly addressing President Biden, not Brandon. Only, with an f-bomb in front of his name instead of “Let’s go!”

Video: https://youtu.be/kQ8asiDn2_A

Source: https://bgr.com/politics/lets-go-brandon-the-backstory-of-th...

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

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And govt. totally didn't push for that exceptional "policy", it arose from the first principles of free market competition. Any apparent similarity to moderation on Weibo, TikTok or Bilibili is purely coincidental.

Sure, why not? Would it be suspicious if you and your neighbor both shared the same local doctor and got similar medical advice?

Doctors are expected to give medical advice while the US government is banned from policing speech. The analogy is fundamentally flawed.
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