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Re:YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid a... by epistasis on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:07PM (#45355461)
Really, discussion was limited? Or blatant lies were rightly excluded from discourse?

There's a big difference, and in any healthy public discourse there are severe reputations penalties for lies.

If school reopening couldn't be discussed, could you point to that?

It's very odd how as time goes on my recollection differs so much from others, and I'm not sure if it's because of actual different experiences or because of the fog of memory.

Re:YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid a... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:12PM (#45355878)
Blatant truths were excluded as well, and that's the main problem. See replies to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353884
Re:YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid a... by epistasis on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:59PM (#45356140)
That's a really long thread and I'm not sure where blatant truths were excluded.
Re:YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid a... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:34AM (#45361806)
Each top level reply responds with an example of a truth suppressed.
Re:YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid a... by epistasis on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @12:36PM (#45362758)
The top comment is emphatically not that:

>As super low hanging fruit: > June 8, 2020: WHO: Data suggests it's "very rare" for coronavirus to spread through asymptomatics [0] > June 9, 2020: WHO expert backtracks after saying asymptomatic transmission 'very rare' [1] > 0: https://www.axios.com/2020/06/08/who-coronavirus-asymptomati... 1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/who-expert-bac... > Of course, if we just take the most recent thing they said as "revised guidance", I guess it's impossible for them to contradict themselves. Just rapidly re-re-re-revised guidance.

My hypotheses for our discrepant viewpoints were 1) my aging memory, or 2) different experiences, but it's actually 3) not using words to have the same meaning!

Citing this as "blatant truth suppression" weakens my view of any other evidence or argument you put forward, because I no longer trust that we can use words in ways that are compatible with each other.