Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/not-the-onion-academic-media-censorship-conference-censored-by-youtube/

by URfejk • 5 years ago

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xhkkffbf• 5 years ago

Perhaps it was filled with misinformation? If so, the new rules say that it should just disappear. Too many people were thinking for themselves. It's much easier if the central powers save us from that hard work.

reedjosh2• 5 years ago

I liked your witty response. HN seems to love authority these days.

undefined1• 5 years ago

Remember, the official word just last March was that masks don't work. Those who pushed back on that were harassed, called anti-science and suppressed.

Why are people still under any illusion that they know what should be censored?

CWuestefeld5• 5 years ago

Fauci has lied to us twice now (that we know of). Mask efficacy was the first one. More recently, he's changed his story on required levels for herd immunity. He's raised that higher than the normal model would tell us, so I suspect that he was telling the truth before and now he's lying, but even if I'm wrong, it means he was lying before and has confessed now.

belltaco2• 5 years ago

Who cares about Fauci or anyone else. Go straight to the science.

More transmissible strains means higher threshold for herd immunity, so yeah Fauci is right in this case to increase it given the spread of the UK, SA and Brazil strains.

but even if I'm wrong, it means he was lying before and has confessed now.

Terrible logic.

Theory52• 5 years ago

Its normal for the authorities on a subject like this to balance informing the public vs discovering all that can be known about something.

Things change as they learn more. That's how this works. Saying they "lie" to you is stupid. They're telling you what they know, as they learn it.

They are STILL learning new things and will be for years, which will change how we address and deal with this.

For them to lie would mean they magically know everything about it and specifically choose not to tell you.

smlckz• 5 years ago

What a meta!

eclat2• 5 years ago

Cancel culture and censorship agendas generally really need to end. They are mind bogglingly stupid.

pavel_lishin5• 5 years ago

Cancel culture is a funny way of saying "people can disagree with what you say".

CWuestefeld5• 5 years ago

This is a motte-and-bailey fallacy.

When your disagreement with someone drives you to contact their employer and demand their dismissal, you've gone far beyond a right to disagree.

SpicyLemonZest• 5 years ago

It's pretty ironic that an article on the "Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas" is uncritically accepting the framing and suspicions of the conference organizers. In fact, being critical would have strengthened their case, because validating their story against the Internet Archive demonstrates that this channel did exist (https://web.archive.org/web/20201101020416if_/https://www.yo...) and provides specific video IDs that they could have asked Youtube about.

happytoexplain4• 5 years ago

The article appears to be more about validating negative worldviews than journalism. I'd like to hear more about the events from somewhere else.

Edit: Looks like this is a better source, though I haven't read it yet. https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...

pavel_lishin5• 5 years ago

So, what is the Washington Standard? I'm seeing:

- ads for guns and ammo

- claims that LGBTQ movement is destroying women's rights

- An ad for Fox News

- more claims about not trusting the media, CNN specifically

Books and covers, etc. I don't really trust them to accurately describe the events that happened. (I don't know if that's ironic. Did 2020 claim irony as a victim?)

wegs3• 5 years ago

I tend to distrust web sites when I find they serve up false information.

I don't tend to pattern match on speech/content patterns of groups I disagree with.

You have half the country distrust anything with ads for guns, and the other half distrust anything that uses words like "woke" or "white supremacy."

pavel_lishin5• 5 years ago

I would argue that selling essential oils, and some medication that claims to cure nearly everything is false information.

https://imgur.com/a/Qrb3Y1d

kawfey• 5 years ago

And essential oils.

At least I can see that this website isn't feeding me personalized ads...

pavel_lishin5• 5 years ago

Every cloud has a silver lining, I suppose.

Vaslo• 5 years ago

Yet people post CNN here all the time, equally as biased the other way.

tzs• 5 years ago

What is "the other way"? That site is all over the map.

Some examples a brief look at Washington Standard turned up.

The don't like green energy [1], which would suggest that they are a conservative site:

If you understand the entire “green energy” deal, you understand it is based solely on a lie from the father of lies, the devil. It’s being pushed by open Communists and why? It’s to enslave people. It’s to make lots of money. It’s to control the world. And where is the largest push of “green energy” products coming from? China. The fake president, China Joe Biden, is now pushing a fake revolution in which “green energy” will be pushed to suck the remainder of wealth of the West

Not fans of Bill Gates, either [2].

Bill Gates is at it again, asking for more totalitarian intervention to stop a future pathogen. He wants to “prepare” for a plandemic in as serious of a manner as “we take the threat of war.”
Preparing for these plandemics is easy for the rulers because they’ve been “predicting” or setting up their authoritarian responses to these scamdemics beforehand.
Are we honestly to believe that a eugenicist who helped develop a fast-tracked vaccine that’s killing and damaging more people than the COVID-19 scamdemic could ever hope to is doing anything for the food of anyone but himself?

(The "fast-tracked vaccine that's killing and damaging more people than the COVID-19" is the Moderna vaccine).

But they don't seem all that happy with Trump, either [3].

President Trump’s words were stirring on Thursday as he announced that he would soon be signing an Executive Order to establish a national commission to promote patriotic education in opposition to the 1619 Project. The only problem with the president’s soon to be released executive order is that there is zero authority for Congress or the president to engage in education at all.

At least Trump doesn't get swastikas drawn on his forehead like they do for Biden [4].

They seem generally more right than left, but the real unifying thread in most of their work seems to be that they have a very strict interpretation of the Constitution (but based on a poor understanding of the Constitution), and they seem to believe a lot of conspiracy theories.

I'm having a hard time seeing how CNN is "equally as biased the other way". CNN, like most other mainstream sites is biased in a way that is fairly easy to learn and correct for, allowing in most cases to get a reasonable idea of the truth by reading/watching them and one or two that are biased the other way.

It looks like it would take extraordinary effort to get much useful out of Washington Standard.

[1] https://thewashingtonstandard.com/china-joes-faux-revolution...

[2] https://thewashingtonstandard.com/bill-gates-vaxx-sales-pitc...

[3] https://thewashingtonstandard.com/trump-announces-executive-...

[4] https://thewashingtonstandard.com/biden-harris-ready-to-push...

happytoexplain4• 5 years ago

I disagree that they are equivalently misleading and hate-based, though I agree they are biased.

im3w1l2• 5 years ago

Hard to find information about who thewashingtonstandard are. They cite Mint Press, whose article is https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...

tbalsam• 5 years ago

This, uh, looks like a semi-propaganda website.

I also really couldn't find a trace of this conference online, barring maybe a tiny FB page and an automatically generated hand/pen video with _13_ views?

Also, this is on a semi-propaganda-if-not-outright-propaganda site that's been posted here.

No social media movement on it that I can see, even on the supposed facebook page for it.

It's almost as if it doesn't exist.

And the article goes on for as long as it does talking about the conference being censored as it does the fact that we're living in 1984 (and a gratuitous attempt at connecting the WSB subreddit).

Please, folks. This stuff is easily debunked and really dangerous to just share around. Why are we upvoting things like this? I thought we were better than this as a community.

im3w1l2• 5 years ago

This, uh, looks like a semi-propaganda website.

The link could be changed to more known mint press. https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce...

This stuff is easily debunked

Please be careful with this. While the website lacks reputation it seems it did happen as described in this case.

reedjosh2• 5 years ago

This, uh, looks like a semi-propaganda website.

In agreement with im3w1l, simply attacking the website is pure argument ad hominem.

DenisM• 5 years ago

There is the page https://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/ and it links to a FB account with a lot more than 13 views / likes.

happytoexplain4• 5 years ago

These look like ads, but they're not being blocked, so I guess they're just things this publisher would like me to consider:

- Democrats mobilize US military to suppress domestic opinion

- The LGBTQ MOVEMENT is destroying WOMENS RIGHTS

- CNN SLAMMED For Lying About WallStreetBets GameStop Rebellion, The SLV Short Squeeze Is FAKE NEWS

- Enter a contest to win a firearm

- Clothing for LIBERTY LOVERS (I really enjoyed this one)

- Save $15 on ammunition

- Various "health secrets"

Regardless of any reality that may legitimately be present inside this content, this website appears to be a typical clickbait machine that runs on political hate.

barnaclejive• 5 years ago

Yep, I have to admit I completely disregarded the article and its possible legitimacy after seeing the ads on that website.

bhk• 5 years ago

And now this article gets flagged on HN...

Theory52• 5 years ago

Did you click that site? I can't read the damn article because of all the ads.

Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube

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