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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by mirimir on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:52AM (#23066181)
OK, so I admit that Icke's thing about 5G and COVID-19 is batshit insane. I truly can't imagine how someone could argue that in good faith. He must be trolling, doing it for the lulz.

But still, that's arguably distinguishable from creating a panic by shouting "fire" in a crowded theater that's undoubtedly not burning. In that crowded theater, it's the stampede that gets people killed in the moment. I do see the analogy to Internet meme explosions. But connections between actions and consequences are weaker and slower enough.

Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by quickthrowman on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:12AM (#23068988)
There are people attacking cell phone towers and threatening workers who work on them. It’s directly connected to the 5G coronavirus garbage.
Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by code_duck on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:26PM (#23074989)
Icke is one of, if not the, originator of the theories of shapeshifting reptilians controlling society. His own descriptions of himself coincide strongly with paranoid schizophrenia.
Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by mirimir on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:27AM (#23076487)
Huh. That's pretty wild.[0]

> A poll of Americans in 2013 by Public Policy Polling indicated that 4% of registered voters (±2.8%) believed in David Icke's ideas.

But at least some of them were joking, right?

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_conspiracy_theory