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posted by martyb on Monday February 25 2019, @02:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the even-my-parent's-VCR-clock-is-right-once-a-day dept.

Channels like VAXXED TV, LarryCook333, iHealthTube, and other anti-vaccination channels on YouTube have been seeing their videos demonetized starting Friday.

“We have strict policies that govern what videos we allow ads to appear on, and videos that promote anti-vaccination content are a violation of those policies”

the policy referenced by YouTube states:

Harmful or dangerous acts

Video content that promotes harmful or dangerous acts that result in serious physical, emotional, or psychological injury is not suitable for advertising. Some examples include videos depicting painful or invasive surgical or cosmetic procedures, or pranks involving sexual harassment or humiliation.

According to YouTube, this includes anti-vaxxer content.

Youtube has also introduced an information panel pertaining to vaccines. Looking through some anti-vax channels, the following text and link is displayed below anti-vax videos:

Vaccine controversies
Vaccine hesitancy, a reluctance or refusal to vaccinate or have one's children vaccinated, has been identified by the World Health Organization as one of the top ten global health threats of 2019.[1][2] Hesitancy results from public debates around the medical, ethical and legal issues related to vaccines.
Wikipedia

Most may agree with the target of these actions (particularly with measles making a tragic comeback in the U.S. due to loss of herd immunity resulting from reduced vaccination rates), but the process still has those 'unaccountable', 'untransparent', 'arbitrary', 'unappealable' characteristics that have become the norm with large social media providers.

Pinterest is also taking measures to reduce the spread of anti-vax propaganda on its platform

So how exactly is Pinterest doing this? By blacklisting search terms like “vaccines” from the platform, along with sites that spread this sort of health misinformation.

Additional coverage of anti-vax demonitization Here and here
A sampling of previous coverage of the 'vaccine controversy' on SoylentNews here and here


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by patrick on Monday February 25 2019, @03:29AM (8 children)

    by patrick (3990) on Monday February 25 2019, @03:29AM (#806184)

    A person who is trying to spread their message for the benefit of others does not need advertising revenue. Money is often made by playing into people's fears. This stops anti-vaxxer video posts that take advantage of that fact, without censoring people with genuine beliefs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @03:56AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @03:56AM (#806189)
    Genuine beliefs are a dangerous thing. Mayans sacrificed prisoners and were honestly believing that this is necessary. In this case parents of children that suffered ill effects from vaccines can publish anti-vax videos for free, in genuine belief that they are saving lives.
    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 25 2019, @11:07AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 25 2019, @11:07AM (#806269) Journal

      Genuine beliefs are a dangerous thing.

      If you think genuine beliefs are dangerous, try fake beliefs...

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      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @11:53AM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @11:53AM (#806277)

      Genuine beliefs are a dangerous thing. Mayans sacrificed prisoners and were honestly believing that this is necessary

      Better than that, there's evidence that a lot of the sacrificial 'victims' were willing.... such is the power of religious indoctrination/brainwashing from an early age.

      In this case parents of children that suffered ill effects from vaccines can publish anti-vax videos for free, in genuine belief that they are saving lives.

      ...allegedly suffered ill effects, allegedly...

      And I say that as someone who had a childhood friend who was a victim of Thalidomide, and who has a deep mistrust of the medical 'industry' and, by extension, those of the medical profession who're apparently far more interested in the health of 'Big Pharma' that that of their patients (personal experience, long story short, between ages 10-15 I was used by my family doctor (wearing his 'invisible' consultant hat) as an unwitting guinea pig for trials of experimental asthma medications, it took a change of family doctor and his digging through a maze of paperwork for this to come to light, so let's just say my ground state is that I'm not that trusting of the profession as a whole, irrespective of how many of them are genuine menschen..)

      • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday February 25 2019, @05:51PM (4 children)

        by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday February 25 2019, @05:51PM (#806445) Homepage Journal

        The Federal Law that established the Vaccine Court also indemnified the drug companies from liability for harm caused by their vaccines.

        From time to time, a small child will be quite-seriously crippled due to a reaction from a vaccine. While they cannot sue the company that caused the problem, they _can_ sue the Federal Government in Vaccine Court. That court really _does_ pay out lots of damage awards.

        And no, the disablement I speak of isn't autism. In many cases it's far worse than that.

        That you ever-so-incorrectly claim that vaccines cause _no_ harm at all leads me to point out that the pro-vaccine folks are in every respect as delusional as the anti-vaxxers.

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        Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
        • (Score: 1) by bussdriver on Monday February 25 2019, @06:43PM

          by bussdriver (6876) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 25 2019, @06:43PM (#806496)

          mod parent up

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @06:48PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @06:48PM (#806500)

          Obviously, vaccines do cause issues from time to time, but I'd take a world with those issues over one without vaccines any day of the week.

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @09:41PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 25 2019, @09:41PM (#806589)

            if you weren't so busy sucking big pharma and big government ass you could join with people who have watched their kids get fucking lobotomized by these fucking scum and demand accountability, safe, clean fucking vaccines, etc. but nooo, you're just a dumb fucking slave sucking up to your masters and trying to make sure everyone else has to do it too. keep pushing your authoritarian dystopia and see what happens.

          • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:44AM

            by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:44AM (#806733) Homepage Journal

            Because they contributed their legs to their modest increment of herd immunity.

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            Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]