YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
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Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#2Covid misinformation, along with audio copyright infringement have become the pretenses for censorship. I wish there were a light at the end of this tunnel, but I only seeing things getting worse as these companies become even more powerful. It has gotten out of control.
Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#3Mirror https://archive.is/I72gs
Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#4I'm scared of the future, but I'm not sure what I can do about it.
Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#5I'm scared of the future, but I'm not sure what I can do about it.
Well I am sure.
You can do nothing about it.
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#6Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well I am sure. You can do nothing about it.
The government of St Louis can pay for their own video hosting.
The city of St. Louis seems to prefer to complain about YouTube’s moderation choices (as a private business) than pay for a Vimeo or Wistia subscription and a mailing list provider. There are also government tailored solutions for managing this content.
Disappointingly, it’s hard to know who is arguing in good faith anymore.
Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#8Covid misinformation, along with audio copyright infringement have become the pretenses for censorship. I wish there were a light at the end of this tunnel, but I only seeing things getting worse as these companies become even more powerful. It has gotten out of control.
Sending death threats and yelling fire in a crowded theatre is also censored. It's pretty ridiculous to think that you can simply say anything you want regardless of how much damage it causes, without repercussions.
Covid misinformation currently kills people every day. And I have relatives who are on the clock, waiting if they are going to end up on ICU. Because some scumbags on the internet decided to bank on misinformation and tell them that the covid vaccine is dangerous.
Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#9Openvaers.com
Re: YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
#10Covid misinformation, along with audio copyright infringement have become the pretenses for censorship. I wish there were a light at the end of this tunnel, but I only seeing things getting worse as these companies become even more powerful. It has gotten out of control.
Sending death threats and yelling fire in a crowded theatre is also censored. It's pretty ridiculous to think that you can simply say anything you want regardless of how much damage it causes, without repercussions. Covid misinformation currently kills people every day. And I have relatives who are on the clock, waiting if they are going to end up on ICU. Because some scumbags on the internet decided to bank on misin…
In the US, both (most) death threats and "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" (actually protesting US involvement in the first world war; seriously look up the origin of that phrase) are both legal. Death threats have to be specific and timely in order to be illegal, IIRC.