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Comment Re:They just can't shut up about GG, even now (Score 1) 308

I'd just be giving the alt-right more ammo to red-pill people to their side. It still hurts to know that I'll never be able to talk about it, that the homophobically murderous SA goons have won, for now.

Do you think that was a good choice? Refusing to talk about wrongdoing from your supposed allies because you think it will just help the opposing faction has enabled all sorts of bad actors and systemic problems historically. As you probably know, in 2019 Alec Holowka committed suicide after Zoe accused him of sexual abuse. Many of her accusations were provably false, such as how she claimed that he trapped her in Winnipeg for a month rather than the planned 2 weeks by refusing to pay for her return trip until a scared friend bought her a plane ticket out, when actually the departure date was planned well ahead of time. Some other people piled on with their own accusations but they were more stuff like "had uncontrolled bipolar and was as difficult to work with as you would expect", rather than anything on the level of Zoe's accusations. I don't know if you revealing the truth about Zoe's involvement in driving someone else to suicide had a significant chance to decrease her credibility and help Holowka or any of the other people she has harmed. But it seems like it would be a lot more likely to help than hurt.

Comment Hack Message (Score 5, Interesting) 147

Here is the message that was cross-posted. An excerpt:

Donald Trump () is the best, greatest, premier of the peoples Republic of the United States of Ameria. Batman, was a billionaire. Do you know what Superman was too? Batman. All four were Batman. You know who else was and still IS a billionaire? Donald Trump. Donald Trump is such a good President that he is best friends to the superior China (Peoples Republic of). There is only ONE China that Donald Trup recognises, The Peopples republic. As an American, we beleive in america. America is good, America is great. The Premier of the united states and its executive branch (Donald Trump, MAGA2027) believe in greatness, we Americans believe in what our leader believes.. because HE the president has the best words, and the greatest words. Reddit, is red.. the same color as the peoples color. Donald Trump will defeat the evil ANTIFA super soldiers, who are terrorizing our country and people in America, the greatest. GOYA beans is a beautiful, pretty company, using the best mealworms to fertilize their beans. God Bless Goya and America.

Seems strange to describe it as a pro-Trump message, to the extent that it makes sense at all it seems distinctly anti-Trump. Note that "Antifa supersoldiers" is a western left-wing internet meme, popular among groups such as fans of the socialist podcast Chapo Trap House. The /r/chapotraphouse subreddit was recently banned so maybe the hack is in retaliation for that, but they aren't the only ones to use the meme, and of course anyone could imitate them, so that doesn't mean much. Regardless, despite the imitation bad English it's obviously from someone very familiar with the English internet.

Comment Youtube censoring a pharmaceutical company (Score 2, Interesting) 332

They often cited Aytu BioScience, a pharmaceutical company that posted a video last Friday depicting an experimental UV technology designed to be inserted via a catheter into a patient to kill the coronavirus. That video has been mentioned across the internet and TV more than 17.1 million times since the Thursday briefing, according to Zignal Labs. YouTube removed the video after The Times contacted the company about it; a spokeswoman said the video promoted an unsubstantiated medical treatment. Aytu BioScience did not respond to requests for comment.

Youtube deleted a Youtube video from pharmacuetical company Aytu Bioscience about a proposed technology for using UV light inside the lungs, which they released a press-release about a few days before Trump's comments and was developed by researchers at Cedars-Sinai who have been working on it for the past 4 years. (Likely some briefing talking about experimental COVID-19 treatments to Trump inspired his remark in the first place.) Since a spokesperson talked about it to the New York Times, we know this was not some accidental automated removal. They did so because a writer of this article reported it to them:

I contacted YouTube about this video, which is being shared on tons of replies on Twitter & on Facebook, by people asserting that it backs up Trump's idea throwing it out there that UV rays kill coronavirus. YouTube just said it removed it for violating its community guidelines.

If you said this would happen - monopolistic tech companies in cooperation with major media outlets censoring medical research because the wrong politician said something that sounded similar, under the justification that the experimental treatment they're researching isn't proven, it would sound like some crazy slippery-slope argument about the evils of censorship. But here we are.

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