[Genuine Realist]

Here's another concerning apparent reality, in the category of censorship...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1263447517032841218[/tweet]
The YouTube channel in question has had what seemed like unquestionably balanced interviews with Johan Giesecke, Neil Ferguson (of the Imperial College model), also Niall Ferguson, Natalie Dean, and Michael Levitt among others.

I am not going to provide a link, but I clicked through to the summary of that interview, and it is completely full of shit.  There are outright lies about herd immunity, the virus "getting tired," and fear being a bigger problem than the virus. 

Thank goodness Youtube took this down.  Perhaps people on the cardboard can tell the difference between smart-sounding bullshit and the truth, but most people don't have the background to do that.  So I hope youtube and other social media continue this policy.

You still leave it up. That's the nature of an open society.

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Perhaps people on the cardboard can tell the difference between smart-sounding bullshit and the truth, but most people don't have the background to do that. 

If "most people" can't tell the difference between smart-sounding bullshit and the truth, we are screwed anyway. This is one place where "herd immunity" has proven effective in the past. From what I have seen of history, the real problems arise when one group manages to suppress every one else's ideas as "smart-sounding bullshit". That said, Utube is free to remove what they please.

Saying the virus is nothing to be worried about is the equivalent of yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater--it's the sort of thing that will get people killed.

There is no right to spread misinformation in an emergency.  Free speech is not the primary issue here, nor should it be.  And there is no "one group" trying to suppress the speech of others.  We all have a vested interest in ensuring that people do not engage in risky behaviors because they have been lied to by "scientists."

And YOU are the one who decides what is misinformation, what isn't.  I can see how you'd find that attractive.

[Genuine Realist]

Here's another concerning apparent reality, in the category of censorship...

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1263447517032841218[/tweet]
The YouTube channel in question has had what seemed like unquestionably balanced interviews with Johan Giesecke, Neil Ferguson (of the Imperial College model), also Niall Ferguson, Natalie Dean, and Michael Levitt among others.

I am not going to provide a link, but I clicked through to the summary of that interview, and it is completely full of shit.  There are outright lies about herd immunity, the virus "getting tired," and fear being a bigger problem than the virus. 

Thank goodness Youtube took this down.  Perhaps people on the cardboard can tell the difference between smart-sounding bullshit and the truth, but most people don't have the background to do that.  So I hope youtube and other social media continue this policy.

You still leave it up. That's the nature of an open society.

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Perhaps people on the cardboard can tell the difference between smart-sounding bullshit and the truth, but most people don't have the background to do that. 

If "most people" can't tell the difference between smart-sounding bullshit and the truth, we are screwed anyway. This is one place where "herd immunity" has proven effective in the past. From what I have seen of history, the real problems arise when one group manages to suppress every one else's ideas as "smart-sounding bullshit". That said, Utube is free to remove what they please.

Saying the virus is nothing to be worried about is the equivalent of yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater--it's the sort of thing that will get people killed.

There is no right to spread misinformation in an emergency.  Free speech is not the primary issue here, nor should it be.  And there is no "one group" trying to suppress the speech of others.  We all have a vested interest in ensuring that people do not engage in risky behaviors because they have been lied to by "scientists."

And YOU are the one who decides what is misinformation, what isn't.  I can see how you'd find that attractive.