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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by LightG on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:48AM (#28695315)
Tell that to the regularly highlighted examples of Covid-19 and/or vax deniers who end up ... dead.

Scientific, rational debate is ideal on these subjects ... but is that even possible anymore when people are jumping off the deep end so much. David Koresh would be envious.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by burnafter182 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:15PM (#28695779)
Selection bias, plain and simple.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by Izkata on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:21PM (#28697784)
Exactly, they have just as many examples of people who publicly say the vaccine is safe, who end up hospitalized or dead within a few weeks due to adverse reactions to the vaccine.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by machiaweliczny on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:45AM (#28704897)
Anecdotal but I know of noone who died due to vacinne (only heard about blood clot). I also don't know of fit and < 40 years old that died although astma friend 30yo was heavily hispitalised. Heard of many older/fat people who died. Some people close to dying sypposedly got helped by Amantadine.

I took 2 shots of Moderna and I am shareholder but I still think that banning debate is stupid. I still have doctor friends who personally don't feel the risks is in vacine favor for them personally.

IMO YT should be forced to allow filering of content by each user. I hate it so much that I am served stupid crap from time to time. This would be much better that this erosion of basic rights. There should be ability to share curation algos but that's obviously against ad driven,supply driven monipolies. Fuck em.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by Loocid on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:32PM (#28702550)
I would love to see some stats on this, because I'm very confident you couldn't find "many". There have only been 8200 deaths in the USA following a vaccine dose, and they aren't even confirmed to be caused by the vaccine. Compared to the 690k COVID deaths I think you're much, much more likely to find people that are antivax that died from COVID, than provax that died following a vaccination.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by josephcsible on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:54PM (#28702679)
> they aren't even confirmed to be caused by the vaccine

Keep in mind this is also true of deaths following COVID. Remember this one in particular? https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-who-died-in-motorcycl...

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by chefkoch on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:17PM (#28699321)
Can you provide examples?