YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical …::YouTube will remove content about harmful or ineffective cancer treatments or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.”
If Youtube is gonna be a platform of mass arbitrary censorship, i welcome the few times in its slow downfall that it chooses the right things to arbitrarily censor.
Who determines what is ineffective or harmful?
I mean chemo isn’t puppies and rainbows.
Maybe let’s go with science?
Chemo is one thing.
The Steve Jobs pancreatic cancer buster plan, not so much.
Science and scientific studies help determine what is ineffective or harmful, the problem is the FDA doesn’t have authority over shit plenty of things - a person can go on YouTube and say drinking their special bottled water will cure cancer, and they don’t fall into FDA guidelines so they are free to claim whatever they want, essentially. These woo-woo type cure-alls have gotten into trouble with the FDA because of their ridiculous and unfactual, unproven claims, but that’s usually where the lawyer wordsmiths show up to change the wording just enough to not get into trouble with the FDA.
There is a whole history of pseudoscience as an industry and how it was able to bribe/lobby for its current position in public view (since you even have to ask this question)
Well colour me shocked. That YT would do the bidding of big pharma… Never.
You’re right, we should let these vile scammers prey on vulnerable people when they’re at their most hopeless. They don’t deserve their money! They won’t have any use for it!
Fallacy much?
The need for a free internet that is community-regulated cannot be more urgent. This move will indiscriminately ban any kind of speech, important traditional therapies, etc. Implemented, this will be a huge loss to our collective knowledge and ability to organise as communities.
Are you saying that traditional therapies are harmful or ineffectual?
