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Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation

12 points by rolph 5y ago

rolph 5y ago
nonmangled url == [https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/01/1719254/youtube-bans-sky-news-australia-for-one-week-over-misinformation https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/01/1719254/youtube-ban...]
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't post slashdot links to BBC articles. "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We've changed the URL now. Submitted URL was https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ci https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid....
  - rolph 5y ago
    ok kewl slashdot == pulp, got it link was mangled while posting, no intention to cross link or obfusicate the submission.
    - dang 5y ago
      I don't know if it's pulp, it's just not the original source, and posting a forum thread as a forum thread is too much indirection!
      - rolph 5y ago
        i get that big time, copy paste was a misfired partial link from my previous clipboard contents
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merricksb 5y ago
Discussed at the time (article is dated Aug 1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024649 (90 points/31 days ago/113 comments)
nradov 5y ago
So would YouTube ban a video on how the NIH has prioritized research on ivermectin as a potential COVID-19 treatment? https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ/covid-19-therapeutics-prioritized-testing-clinical-trials https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi... Or how about a report on this randomized controlled trial which found that ivermectin was an effective treatment? https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989 https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989
- cyb_ 5y ago
  FYI - there was another "major" study published which claims to show the opposite for ivermectin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388433.
ALittleLight 5y ago
I will never understand the hubris that drives YouTube to think that, because some of their corporate antecedents built a wildly successful search and advertising platform, they are qualified to differentiate fact from fiction.

12 points by rolph 5y ago

nonmangled url == [https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/01/1719254/youtube-bans-sky-news-australia-for-one-week-over-misinformation https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/01/1719254/youtube-ban...]

dang 5y ago
Please don't post slashdot links to BBC articles. "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We've changed the URL now. Submitted URL was https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ci https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid....
- rolph 5y ago
  ok kewl slashdot == pulp, got it link was mangled while posting, no intention to cross link or obfusicate the submission.
  - dang 5y ago
    I don't know if it's pulp, it's just not the original source, and posting a forum thread as a forum thread is too much indirection!
    - rolph 5y ago
      i get that big time, copy paste was a misfired partial link from my previous clipboard contents

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merricksb 5y ago

Discussed at the time (article is dated Aug 1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28024649 (90 points/31 days ago/113 comments)

nradov 5y ago

So would YouTube ban a video on how the NIH has prioritized research on ivermectin as a potential COVID-19 treatment? https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ/covid-19-therapeutics-prioritized-testing-clinical-trials https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi... Or how about a report on this randomized controlled trial which found that ivermectin was an effective treatment? https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989 https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989

cyb_ 5y ago
FYI - there was another "major" study published which claims to show the opposite for ivermectin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388433 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388433.

ALittleLight 5y ago

I will never understand the hubris that drives YouTube to think that, because some of their corporate antecedents built a wildly successful search and advertising platform, they are qualified to differentiate fact from fiction.