YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

Post by arghwhat » Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

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Moderation is not necessarily censorship. It is only censorship if the content is removed based on the content itself. For example, shutting down a flamewar for simply being aggressive is not censorship, as long as the same discussion would have been permitted if held in good spirit. Censoring "wrong" content likely has bad outcomes, the worst being that with only "good" content, critical thinking may get even sloppi…

I disagree. Aggression in the sense of language style, is very much in the eye of the beholder. As is assigning value to a ‘flamewar’. One person’s meaningless flamewar is another person’s valuable but heated argument.

Post by ZenPsycho » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

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by all means inject yourself with bleach as your “expert” suggests but don’t pretend that people deciding to spread covid19 around because they believe it’s caused from miasmas are only hurting themselves.

> but don’t pretend that people deciding to spread covid19 around because they believe it’s caused from miasmas are only hurting themselves. Indeed, asymptotic carriers (as well as healthy people that are going to become asymptotic carriers) following the political crackpot pseudoscience advice from WHO and end up not wearing masks do not harm only themselves but everyone around them as well.

Post by Cpoll » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 1:36 AM UTC

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Your scenario has already been playing out for about two months, except it's completely per-video and just a mention of corona seems to no longer cause a demonetization. > so they can collect money and benefit from the videos but not have to do any payout. No ads show on demonetized videos.

Youtube still profits from free content.

Post by nostrebored » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 5:21 AM UTC

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If you want to have an actual conversation, I'm happy to do that. First of all, everything coming out in the news recently should cure you of the illusion that we have any idea about the number of people infected. Estimates of an undercounting of a factor of ten in the early days in New York. An aircraft carrier with 60% of cases being completely asymptomatic. Sweden staying the course and not seeing perilous results…

> Sweden staying the course and not seeing perilous results. > attempting to extract second order effects from epidemics affecting completely different populations with completely different ways and methods of interacting is an exercise in absurdity. ...

Post by dependenttypes » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 5:53 AM UTC

ZenPsycho wrote: post #963

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> but don’t pretend that people deciding to spread covid19 around because they believe it’s caused from miasmas are only hurting themselves. Indeed, asymptotic carriers (as well as healthy people that are going to become asymptotic carriers) following the political crackpot pseudoscience advice from WHO and end up not wearing masks do not harm only themselves but everyone around them as well.

i used to have faith that reasonable adults could tell the difference between “there is no evidence for X” and “X isn’t true”, thank you for disabusing me of that notion.