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Markus Allen's avatar

Speaking of scammers... Youtube now admits they're censoring the dislike button: https://twitter.com/markusallenshow/status/1458940656890568706

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Gigolo Joe's avatar

The original site seems to be defunct, but they tracked the downvote manipulation on the White House's youtube account. as of June, they'd disappeared 3.9 million downvotes, and the ratio of dislikes still outnumbered the likes by 10:1 or better - https://phzoe.com/2021/06/21/youtube-removed-3-9-million-dislikes-for-white-house/

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totisviribus@protonmail.com's avatar

YouTube apparently disliked my asking for a comment on the recent scientific article published in the prestigious journal "Viruses" on the experimental finding of mRNA spike protein in cell nuclei. My post took no position and was not confrontational. Removal for the post and the link to the article occurred within minutes of the posting - and recurred when I reposted it three times. I guess simply mentioning actual science is now dangerous.

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Gigolo Joe's avatar

YouTube will build up a profile of words and links you are forbidden from using, and automate their removal, regardless of the context.

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totisviribus@protonmail.com's avatar

Thanks. After making another, unrelated comment on another YouTube video, it appears that I am now blocked regardless of content. Seriously, all I did was to ask if it would be reasonable to consider a pause in vaccinating children in view of the article I cited (about spike protein being found in cell nuclei). This is now starting to slowly go viral with entire videos on the study being discussed by serious scientists. I must have committed an "original sin".

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Gigolo Joe's avatar

It really is sickening, that people are actually employed to sift through comments and judge who is unworthy of even communicating with other humans. No doubt those who do so feel eminently qualified to pass such judgement.

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