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But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not all

But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not allow videos that contradict World Health Organization information and policy guidelines. And they removed a video that violated that policy. It's a very narrowly defined exception to their normally open platform. I don't see what is scary or sinister about that.

manfredo 6y ago
> But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not allow videos that contradict World Health Organization information and policy guidelines. No, YouTube still is determining credibility. YouTube is still saying, "this video is misinformation and we are removing it." The fact that it's treating the WHO information as the baseline does not change the fact that YouTube is deciding credibility, and removing videos that do not meet it's criteria for credibility.
joeclark77 6y ago
How does it make it better that they've arbitrarily decided to censor videos that contradict China's volunteer propaganda agency?
- dang 6y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into political or nationalistic flamewar. This is a big step in the wrong direction, regardless of how you feel about issues with the WHO. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
istjohn 6y ago
Who decided this at YouTube? What's their name? They weren't elected and they have no accountability to society for making decisions in our best interest. The WHO states that healthy people should "only wear a mask if [they] are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection."[1] This is contrary to current guidance in the US. In a democracy, as in science, no one gets to say what is true and what is false. We have allowed Alphabet to grow into a sprawling corporation that pervades our everyday lives. We cannot now allow them to dictate what is good and bad, true and false, venerable and deplorable. This is dystopic. 1. https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coronavirus/masks/masks-2.png https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coro...
wyck 6y ago
So let me get this straight, you don't see how the largest most influential form of public communication( youtube) deciding to moderate the public interest via a 3rd partly that is governed more by politics than actual health is somehow not a problem. In your last sentence you said "I don't see", it's because you must be blind.

manfredo 6y ago

> But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not allow videos that contradict World Health Organization information and policy guidelines. No, YouTube still is determining credibility. YouTube is still saying, "this video is misinformation and we are removing it." The fact that it's treating the WHO information as the baseline does not change the fact that YouTube is deciding credibility, and removing videos that do not meet it's criteria for credibility.

joeclark77 6y ago

How does it make it better that they've arbitrarily decided to censor videos that contradict China's volunteer propaganda agency?

dang 6y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into political or nationalistic flamewar. This is a big step in the wrong direction, regardless of how you feel about issues with the WHO. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

istjohn 6y ago

Who decided this at YouTube? What's their name? They weren't elected and they have no accountability to society for making decisions in our best interest. The WHO states that healthy people should "only wear a mask if [they] are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection."[1] This is contrary to current guidance in the US. In a democracy, as in science, no one gets to say what is true and what is false. We have allowed Alphabet to grow into a sprawling corporation that pervades our everyday lives. We cannot now allow them to dictate what is good and bad, true and false, venerable and deplorable. This is dystopic. 1. https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coronavirus/masks/masks-2.png https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coro...

wyck 6y ago

So let me get this straight, you don't see how the largest most influential form of public communication( youtube) deciding to moderate the public interest via a 3rd partly that is governed more by politics than actual health is somehow not a problem. In your last sentence you said "I don't see", it's because you must be blind.