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Scatter-skimming your post drew my eyes to an alarming collection of phrases:

  misleading human safety dose escalation oncolytic virus in humans T-VEC inoperable engineering the virus to infect immune-mediated killing allows for targeted tumor activity cell death graphical poor prognosis anti-PD-1 pembrolizumab cancer.
Like I stumbled across a Resident Evil script. Happily the post is coherent when perused.

No, it's news media's sensationalization of exceedingly rare yet awful events (for profit! More at 11). Consuming that poison turns neighbors into strangers and strangers into criminals.

How else would disconnected suburban communities be getting the same message that their kids are in danger from something as specific as trench-coated deviants or razor blade apples?

We know it started before social media but as it often does, social media has amplified the problem. I'm not sure how much blame Hollywood shares in spreading this fear.

You get a creepy feeling when a person might be a threat but you aren't sure yet. Often triggered by noticing something incongruent about the person's demeanor, appearance, or location, which suggests that they may be concealing their intent from you, for possibly malicious ends.

It's a valuable survival behavior but like most pre-crime strategies is easily confused by racism, neuro-discrimination, or other (un)conscious bigotry.

I can't tell who's worse in this story. Shame all around.

More on topic, you'd expect false reports of threats to children to be evenly distributed across the population. If so, that's a mass media issue. If the reports come repeatedly from just a few people, it's those people whose behavior needs correction.

Can "banned for repeated violations" be construed as defamation (libel)?

Maybe average internet users go to OP's channel, see it's banned, and assume that OP did something illegal—like posting pirated movies, stealing money earned from copyrighted music, or even worse things like posting violent videos, terrorism or child pornography—thus tarnishing OP's good name.

I wish we had some legal mechanism for average citizens that covered the increasingly common case where "company X forced me to spend a bunch of time/money because of their mistake."

P.S. Sorry that happened to you. Good that you had local backups, that's a lesson for us all!

"Any other disclosures of Personal Health Information require the covered entity to obtain written authorization from the individual for the disclosure" -HIPAA

Wouldn't companies just update their terms of service to say "you agree to let us buy and sell your data?" Not allowing that would go up against freedom of contract.

Older, less-informed biologists also gave us scientific racism.

  Polar bears and Asiatic black bears live in different places and have different appearances and behaviors. They called those different species.

  Norwegian humans and Chinese humans live in different places and have different appearances and behaviors. They called those different races.