This is the type of thing that makes people upset, then everyone forgets about it and continues using the service. Are there any specific individual actions that can be taken to push back on this? Besides "don't use youtube", because let's be honest that isn't realistic.
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Some are more that than others. I'm very tired of fallacies of composition.
Be careful that it's not just shows that seem to agree with one's particular personal biases.
How is it you assume you have the agency to make objective assessments, but that others don't?
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Apparently I have hit the nerves of lots of people from my parent post and since I am and like to be publicly accessible, people who disliked my thoughts have really let me know what they think of me and where I belong :D I am noticing, increasingly in the country I live in - the U.S., an extremely concerning attitude towards love for censorship. More concerning is that the proponents have "good intentions" at heart.…
Just an FYI, but your thoughts aren't so important you should copy-paste spam them all over the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22961374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956559
Yes, that's definitely not ok. I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22964687
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This is how all news media operated before the internet created mouthpieces for non-professionals. In addition to suppressing some inconvenient truths they filtered out crackpot ideas that have become a plague in modern times.
you mean like the NYT's Judith Miller, ostensibly a professional, who sabre rattled for the 2nd iraq war based on aluminum tubes which .gov leadership immediately cited after being published? because that was fairly crackpotty.
I'm not saying your example is wrong, but the fact that it's from nearly 20 years ago is very telling. Even the most credible of sources will get something very wrong on occasion.
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Edit: since people are misunderstanding this post, I am 100% pro-ROC and anti-PRC. I wish the ROC could rename itself to something else without triggering a PRC invasion. Check my comment history. I'm 100% pro-ROC and I support the ROC's continued (since 1912) independence as a sovereign entity. 中華民國萬歲 "Taiwan" isn't a country. It's an island controlled by the Republic of China alongside its other holdings. The ROC i…
You should try talking to a Taiwanese person to see what they think, instead of being a shill for PRC.
This comment egregiously breaks the site guidelines. Personal attack is not allowed, and neither are accusations of shillage, which are overwhelmingly figments of internet imagination (I've spent hundreds of hours investigating this kind of thing). Please stick to the rules when posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
If you want more explanation about the astroturfing rule, there's years' worth at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
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The WHO advised against the public wearing masks and advised against travel restrictions. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/all-uk-hospita... https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re... As I understand it - many Canadians of Asian decent in Vancouver BC wore masks early on. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article... EDIT: As of 3/30 WHO still doesn't recommend wear…
> The WHO advised against the public wearing masks Nope. Your article is actually about the UK's government's advice and lumps in the WHO. Here's a WHO publication from 30th of January 2020 [0] that advises all sick with "flu-like symptoms" be provided a mask (as well as healthcare workers). The WHO, like every national government, have recommended prioritizing masks to the sick and healthcare workers since the start…
The WHO still right now does not support wearing masks if you’re not sick. The fact that we know that people can be sick and spread the virus and still not show any symptoms suggests that every country in Asia supporting wearing the masks early on is right and the WHO is wrong.
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You're right. We're so much better off when a significant segment of the population believes that the Secretary of State is pimping out children from a pizza restaurant.
Yes, because the idea of rich, influential men pimping out children in modern America is simply unthinkable and certainly hasn't happened recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
The Secretary in question is a woman. Don’t just assume all secretaries are men, that’s sexist.
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Since when is science about consensus? I seem to recall learning more about falsification being the primary driver behind the scientific method, which tends to revolve around a rigorous process of trying to prove everything wrong until you just can't any more. Sure haven't seen a whole lot of that. Sure have seen a whole lot of, listen to us because this is what we say, without a whole lot of correctly collected data…
Yes, ignore all the overwhelmed hospitals and the sudden jump in mortality in Italy and Spain that made them decide to lock everything down after they already had a crisis on their hands. Rail more about a transnational organization with a long though often imperfect record of epidemiological expertise. Those bureaucrats in Geneva are personally ruining your life.
>Yes, ignore all the overwhelmed hospitals and the sudden jump in mortality in Italy and Spain that made them decide to lock everything down after they already had a crisis on their hands. Rail more about a transnational organization with a long though often imperfect record of epidemiological expertise. Those bureaucrats in Geneva are personally ruining your life.
Not one of these statements reflects any stated positions of the parent. All are hyperbolic mis-characterizations.
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Nothing emboldens racists like pointing to government oppression of their ideas. The KKK has free reign in the USA and they've experienced plummeting membership. Nothing kills bad ideas like sunlight and scrutiny, you don't need to ban it and make them martyrs.
You're saying that racism and white supremacy is declining?
You think it’s increasing? Over what time frame?
At least in North America, racism and white supremacy is a fraction of what it was 50 years ago.
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you mean like the NYT's Judith Miller, ostensibly a professional, who sabre rattled for the 2nd iraq war based on aluminum tubes which .gov leadership immediately cited after being published? because that was fairly crackpotty.
I'm not saying your example is wrong, but the fact that it's from nearly 20 years ago is very telling. Even the most credible of sources will get something very wrong on occasion.
>I'm not saying your example is wrong, but the fact that it's from nearly 20 years ago is very telling.
telling in what way? This behavior hasn't really slowed down, and was persistent through the Obama administration, too.
Many, including myself, feel as if that behavior is par for the course with regards to NYT. Chomsky refers to it as the NYT's special role of 'creating history'[0].
That's why they have some strange ability to be cited realistically by serious people, even when they're entirely wrong about something.