YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by Cytobit on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:20PM (#22960771)

Sometimes, I'll hear someone talk about a place called "Virginia", and I'll have no idea what they are talking about. Eventually, I figure out through context clues that they are referring to the Commonwealth of Virginia. I wish they would save me the time of having to constantly explain why they are wrong.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by brobinson on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:59PM (#22961335)

Bad analogy. This would be like people calling Rhode Island "Newport". The official state name is (the State of) "Rhode Island" (and Providence Plantations), and calling it by the name of one of its territories makes no sense.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by DoofusOfDeath on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:34PM (#22961758)

Tangential factoid: often people (especially tourists) say Newport when they actually mean Aquidneck Island.

Source: I've lived in that area.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by wolco on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:25PM (#22961645)

Yet we all knew you meant Rhode Island by saying Newport.

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by __s on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:22PM (#22962255)

I didn't

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by wolco on Thursday April 23, 2020 @07:41PM (#22962945)

Let's try a few others.

South Beach?

LA?

Vegas?

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by nl on Thursday April 23, 2020 @09:25PM (#22963664)

Even people from Fremantle wouldn't expect to say "South Beach" and have people outside Perth know where that is.

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