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YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content

reuters.com

28 pointsnotyourday12 comments

Earlier post already on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693060

Will pro-choice (aka anti-mandate) content, such as the NBA players speaking their minds when asked by the press, considered anti-vaccine? Will be curious to see where that line falls.

How does YouTube separate content presented as fact vs content presented as opinion? False facts is one thing, but what if someone is just hesitant about vaccine safety?

They seem to be using Human moderators and only banning people/channels with a consistent track record and very clear violation of their admittedly arbitrary red line.

OK, that seems fine. I know YouTube's automatic DMCA policies are notoriously bad, but it sounds like this is a more accurate manual approach.

While the title says All anti-vaccine content, that actual article notes, it's blocking content that says "vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines". A person who is hesitant about vaccine safety wouldn't be blocked then. Only if you say that cause x side effect (when that is not backed in science), or if you provide false info on whats in the vaccine, since the ingredients are facts. Someone saying their is a microchip in it, would not be a fact.

The challenge is to determine how misinformation is defined. Would peer reviewed scientific papers that come to different conclusions than the current CDC guidelines be considered anti-vaccine? Should we consider conflicts of interest or sources of funding when determining misinformation? Are open ended questions about the safety and efficacy allowed? What about other medications?

About dang time. Hey Facebook, your turn.

Awesome! Finally. I think they should ban all anti-Facebook content as well. Facebook is a good company and never makes mistakes, to think otherwise is simply dangerous for the whole tech industry and must be removed.

All anti-vaccine misinformation, right? I'm starting to worry how often these kinds of announcements include misinformation as only one of the things to be censored. The article is unclear whether the content has to be false or misleading, with phrases like:

"content that alleges vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines"

Does that mean the European Medicines Agency would be blocked for listing Guillain-Barré syndrome as a possible (very rare) side-effect [1]?

What about statements like "Compulsory vaccination is wrong"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COV...

You're just trying to be a smart-ass.

lookup ad hominem

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