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YouTube should be held liable for what it is pushing. It literally can kill and seriously harm people.
by zelphirkalt 11mo ago
YouTube should be held liable for what it is pushing. It literally can kill and seriously harm people.
- xethos 11mo agoThe president of the United States of America pushed a horse de-wormer as a preventative during a world-wide pandemic Good luck getting him, his administration, or his Department of Justice, to hold YouTube to a higher standard.
- cynicalcoder 11mo agoThat’s dishonest. Ivermectin is widely prescribed to people too. That’s like calling Ibuprofen a horse anti-inflammatory drug. That doesn’t mean it was an effective covid treatment though. The information from the third world that made it appear like it was seems to have been that it was treating preexisting parasites in covid patients, eliminating a comorbidity and thereby improving covid survival rates. But undiagnosed parasites are rare in the US, so that wouldn’t have worked here.
- tclancy 11mo agoWell, let’s post a deepfake about some left strawman and watch him find the time pronto.
- alex1138 11mo agoIvermectin has scientific evidence behind it. But I can't say that without accruing downvotes, I suppose
- teamonkey 11mo agoScientific evidence as a topical treatment for skin conditions!
- razakel 11mo agoThe data suggesting that it might help treat COVID came from India... where intestinal worms are common. So of course it looked like it worked when you're actually solving a different problem.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoIt would help your argument, if you actually pointed to that evidence, rather than just claiming it.
- stOneskull 11mo agoyoutube also has kitboga, pirogi, deeveeaar, etc which are very helpful. i introduced my mother, who has early dementia and can't do much, so watches a lot of netflix and youtube, to kitboga and she loved it and found other scambaiters. i'm stoked. i know she will tell a scammer to f off now.
- toofy 11mo agothis seems like credit bureaus charging us to protect our data they keep losing.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoKitboga guy is a saint! Very entertaining, every now and then.
- beached_whale 11mo agoI think that any of these algorithmic feeds, by any company, should be held as if the companies have vetted the content and it is theirs. And the culpability that goes with that.
- amypetrik8 11mo ago> should be held as if the companies have vetted the content and it is theirs. It's not "as if" it "is". There is a scant difference between an LLM and a recommendation algorithm picking what to "say" out of what, 100 billion or more messages? Because the pool to choose from is so enormous, speech becomes not what one person typed but what one algorithm plucked out of the haystack to show, to influence, and to manipulate for financial gain.