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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by vkou on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:25PM (#22964002)
The next time someone who has nothing to do with congressional politics refers to President Trump, are you going to get on their case for failing to acknowledge the existence of the impeachment issue? Will you accuse them of explicitly supporting one side of that conflict?

After all, it is crystal-clear to all right-thinking people that if the world were just, he would currently be in jail. Referring to him as a president is explicitly taking a political position on the subject...

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by jshevek on Friday April 24, 2020 @12:48AM (#22964741)
This is where a person less concerned with the correct use of the terms designating logical fallacies might accuse you of a "false equivalence". Regardless, trying to reason by analogy on topics like this invites errors of oversimplification and generalization.

Staying on topic, you grossly misrepresented the situation by characterizing WHO's implicit endorsement of Taiwan's non-existance as a state as a matter of mere "argument over borders".

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly co... by vkou on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:42AM (#22965021)
I feel that it is a gross representation to interpret the WHO's ''NEXT QUESTION PLEASE'' dodge to be an implicit endorsement of... A state of the world that doesn't exist?

Why do you think I feel that way? Why do you not feel that way about the example I outlined? Is it because one topic (Trump's criminality) is controversial in the Western world, while the other one (Taiwan's independence) is not?

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