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AIDS Deniers Use Bogus Copyright Claims to Censor

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @11:34PM   
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."

• Re:Either way... (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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