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YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

483 points| mrfusion | 4 years ago |foxnews.com | reply

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[+] collegeburner|4 years ago|reply
You want to see worse? Youtube has shadowbanned this song from search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_F_XQrukM

Search "Let's go brandon" and it should be the number 1 result, it's #23 on trending for music still, it was #1, and it peaked at #1 on itunes hiphop charts for US. But you don't get it unless you search for "let's go brandon song", which makes me think somebody messed with it.

[+] fabianhjr|4 years ago|reply
Youtube instantly demonetized, put behind triple community warnings, and removed from search the video "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI ) which was sourced only from things the CIA / US Government have formally admitted on the record as having done in the past.
[+] EastOfTruth|4 years ago|reply
When I search for "Let's go brandon" (no quotes), it is number four in the search results... but with quotes, with or without apostrophe, I'm not sure because I don't see it... went down about 100 results...
[+] lettergram|4 years ago|reply
For those who think this isn’t political, check out what they posted on the POTUS Twitter the day before

https://twitter.com/potus/status/1451544259992203266

The goal of this is to reclaim “let’s go Brandon” and it’s obvious.

EDIT: for those who don’t know what “Let’s go Brandon” means, a child comment linked to a 40 second video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8asiDn2_A&feature=youtu.be

For those who don’t watch or attend sport events — this happens at many of the events lately.

[+] pmurt7|4 years ago|reply
Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester.
[+] fabianhjr|4 years ago|reply
I don't understand the allegories to feudalism when jesters who crossed a line weren't censored but executed. (I would guess specially if they expressed or supported any sort of anti-monarchy or anti-their-monarchs viewpoints)
[+] quotemstr|4 years ago|reply
You can't properly understand something if you can't question it. When you elevate any idea to unquestionable capital-T Truth, you blind yourself to the actual truth. You break the only mechanism we've ever discovered for figuring out how the world actually works. Censorship of anything is the enemy of human progress and always has been.
[+] silverspoonin|4 years ago|reply
Oh, was not aware that youtube was part of the federal government.
[+] WaitWaitWha|4 years ago|reply
Social media cannot embrace the immunity and authority, but none of the responsibility.
[+] mimikatz|4 years ago|reply
https://variety.com/2021/music/news/youtube-will-not-ban-yg-...

When songs promote robbing Asian people YouTube says “ In a memo to staff explaining the rationale for not barring the YG video, management wrote: “We’ll start by saying we find this video to be highly offensive and understand it is painful for many to watch, including many in Trust & Safety and especially given the ongoing violence against the Asian community. One of the biggest challenges of working in Trust & Safety is that sometimes we have to leave up content we disagree with or find offensive… Sometimes videos that otherwise violate our policies are allowed to stay up if they have Educational, Documentary, Scientific or Artistic context…

“In this case, this video receives an EDSA exception as a musical performance,” YouTube’s memo to staffers continued. “While EDSA is not a free pass for any content, there are likely thousands of music videos that would otherwise violate policies including Sex & Nudity, Violent or Graphic Content and Hate Speech were it not for these sorts of EDSA exceptions. As a result, removing this video would have far-reaching implications for other musical content containing similarly violent or offensive lyrics, in genres ranging from rap to rock. While we debated this decision at length amongst our policy experts, we made the difficult decision to leave the video up to enforce our policy consistently and avoid setting a precedent that may lead to us having to remove a lot of other music on YouTube.”

[+] nathanaldensr|4 years ago|reply
Ah, so what's good for the goose is actually not good for the gander. Interesting...
[+] bitwize|4 years ago|reply
YouTube has a very clear policy that only one opinion on COVID-19 is allowed on their platform. They are enforcing that policy.
[+] jquery|4 years ago|reply
YouTube doesn’t censor enough? I agree.
[+] nullc|4 years ago|reply
Assaulting Asian people isn't incompatible with an explicit whitehouse policy initiative and in that example the artist wasn't wearing an "impeach biden" shirt.

Edit: People keep responding to this comment claiming that the video didn't feature an impeach biden shirt, then deleting their comments when they realized what they saw was a video using the same name exploiting the fact that the real video is hidden. :) If you feel the urge to make that reply, instead just update this counter instead:

[+] mensetmanusman|4 years ago|reply
So much of YouTube is songs promoting violence against women and this gets censored, ha
[+] cronix|4 years ago|reply
I think the US government messed this internet thing up big time when they didn't classify the internet as a utility, which I think it clearly is. A phone company can't discriminate based on politics. Neither can a power company. They were deemed important for all of society, business and personal use, equally. Everyone gets equal access regardless of beliefs. We play silly games that overall bring disharmony to everyone. None of this is good in the long term. No one is winning.
[+] calsy|4 years ago|reply
In most cases, well publicised censorship of art backfires and provides more notoriety and fans for the artist.
[+] fullshark|4 years ago|reply
In most of the cases you remember you mean, in the vast majority of the time you never heard about it and it was successful.
[+] adrr|4 years ago|reply
Youtube doesn't care. It can't have antivax stuff on their platform because advertisers don't want their ads on controversial content.
[+] chuckee|4 years ago|reply
But how often is it well publicized?
[+] jayski|4 years ago|reply
i disagree with censoring. but i want to pose a question.

if i have q WordPress blog on a $5vps, and you post a comment saying my blog post is stupid. its my vps,im paying for it, i can delete the comment if i want right?

where do you draw the line? how big exactly does my blog have to get before this is considered big tech censorship?

[+] _yoqn|4 years ago|reply
I'm actually a regular listener of Bryson Gray on Spotify and heard this release yesterday. I'm glad Fox is giving him the spotlight. I would argue that by YouTube taking down his video they gave him a lot more publicity than he otherwise gets... good for him!
[+] twofornone|4 years ago|reply
Tech bros are now the gatekeepers of information for hundreds of millions of eyes (not just youtube, also google search manipulation, facebook algos, arguably outlets like netflix...maybe not Amazon yet) and here about half of the western world is cheering on the suppression.

How can someone place so much trust in this suppression without even seeing what's being censored? Is it just a deliberate blissful ignorance? Are these people really so naive from the comforts of modern western living?

[+] iudqnolq|4 years ago|reply
The song contains the line "The pandemic ain't real/They just planned it".

I believe that the solution to incorrect or dangerous speech is only more speech and oppose YouTube's takedown. However, it's absurd to say this is "political" and thus not medical misinformation. It's clearly a political statement in support of a political movement that maliciously lies about public health.

[+] kadoban|4 years ago|reply
Article goes out of its way to avoid saying what's actually in the song or video.
[+] egman_ekki|4 years ago|reply
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?!
[+] 0des|4 years ago|reply
Were there other lyrics besides "Let's Go Brandon"? If those contained disinfo, perhaps that is why.
[+] deadalus|4 years ago|reply
Youtube Alternatives : Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller, Gab TV

Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube

[+] mc32|4 years ago|reply
No, it’s not because that. It barely has a “verse”. They just don’t like the traction it’s getting and the anti narrative it promotes.

If it were F@ck Donald (whatever) and everything else the same it would still be up.

The rest is nothing but naked excuse.

There are so many medically misleading things on YouTube —just look at dieting. They cause harm. Let me see them pull those.

Nah, they won’t.

Honestly, I think “Pravda” would be proud of the gall.

[+] cjlovett|4 years ago|reply
I thought it was brilliant wokeness by the NBC reporter to translate "F* Joe Biden" chant to say "Let's Go Brandon". The subsequent adoption of "Let's Go Brandon" as a code for what people really want to say is hilarious and has become a major meme across America. For YouTube to deny this hilarious turn of events is happening is downright laughable. Clearly YouTube (and Facebook) are in deeply in bed with the Whitehouse, which should make everyone very concerned.