Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ...
by threeseed on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:50PM
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It is still a grey area as to whether Youtube is legally responsible for the content it shows.
So given that HCQ kills people in certain situations you can understand why they might be reluctant to allow non-experts to promote its use.
Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ...
by eloff on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:57PM
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They would have to ban most medical advice and a lot of health advice in that case. Not to mention videos of people doing or talking about risky things. That's a shallow excuse that I don't buy.
Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ...
by eloff on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:59PM
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Here's the banned video, make up your own mind if you think censorship of it is justified: https://fast.wistia.net/embed/medias/td0v8taipc
Some part of the heterodox ideas of today will invariably be Orthodox in the future. A small fraction of them, mind you, but you impede progress if you enforce the orthodoxy. That's what the church used to do when it had sufficient power.
I noticed that one of the videos removed by YouTube is medcram #71. Which discusses, logically and with citations, treatment results using zinc and hydroxychloroquinine. Surely because the media are quick to paint it as Trump's widely discredited treatment that he was pushing. However, if you dig into the actual studies, they don't support that conclusion, in my opinion. The media jumped on one Veterans study where the treatment was given too late in the disease to make a difference. They never reevaluated their conclusion when other studies contradicted that result, possibly because they badly want Trump to be wrong. So here is one heterodox idea being suppressed potentially to the detriment of all mankind, in our hour of need. Even if you ascribe a very small probability that I'm right on this, you have to admit censorship could be doing us a great harm.
My prediction is this gets down voted to hell because the hn voting system itself not only is a way of suppressing heterodox ideas by moving them down the page and greying them out, but it leans left as well, and I had the gall to defend a thing Trump said. I can't stand Trump for the record, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.