YouTube removes video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jordan Peterson for vaccine misinformation
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Kennedy, an anti-vaccine crusader, is seeking support for a Democratic presidential run.
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I think this will just strengthen the hardcase conspiracists, and whatever platforms choose to continue to have him. I'm not sure that this really accomplishes anything, and may even be counter-productive.
Making it far more difficult to find this shit means fewer people see it, and fewer dipshits fall for it.
This.
There's no known way to bring people back from crazy, but we know how to prevent them from becoming conspiracy nuts.
Maybe I’m just not that online, but I think people believe all sorts of dumb things anyway. I think that for people that can be reasonable at all, which isn’t everyone, indifference is a harsher condemnation of dumb ideas than trying to hide them. I sought out the comments in question only after hearing they were banned.
Remember when we didn't have conspiracists collecting online and they were told to fuck off? It worked. They have become emboldened by having access to a bunch of other dumbasses online.
Disagree. Keeping this dumb and objectively wrong bs out of mainstream platforms does more to prevent the spread of dumb beliefs more than it helps propagate them, as you limit the spread amongst the people who are too dumb to see through the lies and too lazy to go seek out the bs themselves.
Except, as demonstrated by the Epic Hack, those platforms are generally run by idiots and/or grifters with terrible security practices. Pushing them there makes them extremely vulnerable to other forms of disruption.
I have no interest in Google being the arbiters of truth, but I'm not going to bat an eye if they are using it to suppress vaccine misinformation.
Here is to hoping kbin isn't run by idiots with terrible security practices.