YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by davidw on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:25AM (#28694970)

> The bad idea exists today and is spreading, does limiting that spread actually cause more harm? Is there evidence of this or a study to support it? In schools, we suppress all sorts of bad ideas.

So this is sort of meta isn't it? The easy phrase that sounds good gets a lot of traction, but actually proving whether it's true, long term, is a difficult problem!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law - I'm not calling BS on the phrase we're discussing, just that we don't know!

Meanwhile back in the real world, a friend of ours died of COVID yesterday, leaving behind a husband and son. Pretty sure she was not vaccinated. She was relatively young and in good shape.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by orra on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:00PM (#28695511)

There's no simple answers. American has some of the strongest free speech rights, but also a scarily large anti vaxx population. (It's also worth noting that what YouTube decides to allow isn't a First Amendment issue.)

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