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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
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by FatPhil on Monday February 25 2019, @11:17PM (1 child)
Your choice of term is sophistry - it's an injection, why do you want to dress it up with a misleading loaded word? (That's a rhetorical question, there's no need to answer; it's because you know the meat of your argument is weak, we can all see that.) Are expectant mothers being given nitrous oxide on the delivery table being "gassed"? Do you view wearing seatbelts during take-off and landing as bondage at the hands of the dominatrix air steward?
Of course, there can be rational reasons to not vaccinate, but they are few and far between, and fortunately that makes them small enough not to affect the herd immunity. Being an anti-science loon is not such a reason, and the results of that have been adequately demonstrated to those who pay attention to such issues. Now if anti-vaxers were prepared to insure against the breaking of herd immunity, and not just their own sickness, then perhaps they could convince the rest of the libertarians to support them, but even then, the masses should view them for what they are - a dangerous risk.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:16AM
Do I detect someone who has no reasoned response?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves