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AIDS Deniers Use Bogus Copyright Claims to Censor

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 soulde on Monday February 17 2014, @03:11AM

    by soulde (27) on Monday February 17 2014, @03:11AM (#388)

    south africa suffered a lot with those aids deniers.
    The old ministry of healthcare believed that aids was just a nutrition problem (linked with poverty) and these is the main reason why a not-so-poor country now have more than 30% of the population with aids.

    These people are criminals and should be put in jail.

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  • (Score: 1) by Thexalon on Monday February 17 2014, @04:20PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:20PM (#813)

    For starters, it's worth remembering that while South Africa as a whole is not ridiculously poor, a lot of its wealth is heavily concentrated, so there are large areas of the country where everyone is in fact dirt poor. There is a lot of mineral wealth in South Africa, but the mines are owned by European companies, who bribe the government to ensure that very little of the wealth in those mines actually goes to South Africans.

    There are lots of misconceptions about AIDS floating around lots of areas in Africa which have definitely made the problem worse. For example, in some places there were lots of people who believed that sex with a virgin would cure AIDS, and some men who were infected would rape girls to try to save their lives (this, of course, killed the girls and did nothing to help the men).

    The situation is still bad enough that even the Catholic Church is handing out condoms and teaching people how to use them.

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