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posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @11:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-deny-reality? dept.
Blackmoore writes: "The producers of "House of Numbers" have used a series of bogus copyright takedown notices to get Youtube to remove videos, in which he uses clips from the documentary as part of his criticism, showing how they mislead viewers and misrepresent the facts and the evidence. It's pure censorship: using the law to force the removal of your opponents' views."
 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by combatserver on Monday February 17 2014, @12:23AM

    by combatserver (38) on Monday February 17 2014, @12:23AM (#352)

    "The AIDS denial movement encourages people who are HIV-positive to go off the medication that keeps them alive."

    I watched someone die from AIDS many years ago--while I cannot say that the drug-cocktail he was taking kept him alive any longer than he would have otherwise, I can assure you he wasn't going to take the chance opting-out. The chances of survival wouldn't of gone up if he didn't take the drugs--that was all that mattered at that point in his life.

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  • (Score: 1) by Asshole on Monday February 17 2014, @06:35AM

    by Asshole (159) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:35AM (#457)

    But what is their motive? Do they profit from this somehow? The only other motive I can think of is they want people to die for religious reasons.

  • (Score: 1) by Thexalon on Monday February 17 2014, @04:07PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:07PM (#800)

    A good friend of mine has been living with HIV for a long time, and the drugs he is taking for it mean that he's still alive, when in the bad old days he would have been dead about 15 years ago. He'll still die much younger than he otherwise would have (probably somewhere in his 60's rather than 80ish), but in the meantime he's a very productive member of society with a strong scholarly and charitable streak. Any efforts to make him stop taking advantage of available medical treatment for his condition are simply evil, in my view, since they're basically wishing death upon him.

    A lot of the people who are against treating HIV and AIDS are motivated by the idea that it's God's righteous punishment for being gay or promiscuous, an idea they developed in the 1980's when it was "the gay disease". In their worldview, having a different sort of sex than they approve of is more sinful than allowing somebody to die. Even if the people in question were raped, a lot of these guys (it's mostly men who think this way about rape) think is somehow the victim's sin rather than the rapist's sin.

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