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

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by gkop on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:28PM (#28699474)

> And this is probably the biggest one: So many of the politicians pushing covid restrictions fail to practice what they preach outside of photo ops.

Thanks for bringing this up, it's something that everyone should be able to agree is unacceptable. I feel naive for asking, but WHY does the public allow politicians to get away with this hypocrisy? (eg. https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/London-Bree...)

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by etchalon on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:33PM (#28702557)

The public accepts hypocrisy because most people are themselves hypocrites in one way or another.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by silexia on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:04PM (#28699930)

In many cases there has been a single photo of a politician with a mask off. Lots of predatory paparazzi photograph public individuals all day. Catching someone at a bad moment or accidentally doing something is easy.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by gkop on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:34PM (#28700863)

I think you may be getting downvoted because your response doesn’t relate to the example I gave, where the politician made an explicit statement in contradiction of their own health order.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by silexia on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:42PM (#28700925)

Ah, thank you. I was referring to the broader news media regularly showing "hypocritical" politicians not wearing their face masks in some photo.

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