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Honestly boring. Likely just it got flagged as violence, and an underpaid 3rd world worker clicked a button.

Sorry about the inconvenience to this guy, but at the same time, it got 14 million views and I'm sure he made some cash. He can probably not whine so much. It's likely an honest mistake by someone overworked.

How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech?

YouTube banning antivax content is speech.

You want the government to start mandating that a company can't take a stance on important issues of healthcare? Churches spend all day every day taking stances on abortion. You want to the government to tell them they can't take a side?

You can just look up their terms of service which I'm fairly sure leave a carve out for news items ...

But you are making an assumption that the average worker (probably from India) making $1 an hour, can tell the difference between newsworthy war crimes, and a snuff film.

I don't think anyone is going to get that right 100% of the time. So no, I don't really see it as a problem.

Obviously not enough people are shutting up, given the way that antivax content is the #1 propagator on Facebook.

There is money to be made from lying to people. That's why it's being banned. It should have been done last year honestly, but social media companies were afraid to anger Trump. They took the barest actions to add warnings, and no surprise, no one reads them.

> I think we have to ask

No we don't. The question we have to ask is whether allowing this content is worse for society than any stifling of moderate voices.

And the answer is obviously yes. Covid-hoaxers represent millions of people who are causing a national health crisis that doesn't need to be happening anymore. Fuck moderate voices who are "just asking questions". They can deal with playing a little less devil's advocate, and getting more in board with the obvious health benefits of vaccination.

It's a lot of facts and figures, but it kind of misses the mark. Wars today are also from resource scarcity.

Leibingsraum was explicitly part of the reasoning for invading France.

I know it's a natural instinct to defend modern living as more peaceful, and to some extent that may be true. But modern society has also created atrocities that ancient people could never dream of.

The articles premise that Americans acted kinder for a little while after doing some Buddhist meditation.... Completely ignoring the fact that Buddhism has extremists just like other religions...

The people didn't act kinder because of Buddhism. The experimental setup primed them to act in a certain way.

>how violent are cultures of hunter-gatherer

WW2 killed 75 million people. Tell me again, who has the more violent culture?

> After only eight weeks of study with a Buddhist lama, 50 percent of those who we randomly assigned to meditate daily spontaneously helped a stranger in pain.

I'm waiting for the follow up study after 520 weeks, where a certain percentage of them become radicalized zealots.

> Secular philosophy has failed to produce enough value for ordinary people living ordinary lives

Consider the situation: you want to get an abortion. Or you know someone who does.

I don't think I need to spell out the debate. But the secular world view is producing value for people who don't want to be afraid that they will spend literally INFINITY TIME being tortured. (And arguably it produces value for the religious, who do utilize secular services even when their religion forbids it).

The secular world view offers you freedom from judgement, both mortal and immortal. Many people find value in the freedom to not worry about superstition.

"These stupid mother fuckers trust me" - Mark Zuckerberg, about Facebook users

Don't forget for a moment that Mark Zuckerberg is a monster. From the start he only cared about one thing: getting your data.

The point is that Facebook publicly claims it's not a media company. They do that to avoid government oversight.

Once they are revealed to be acting like a media company, it's a house of cards. Regulation presumably would follow.

If you've ever received something that looked "hand written" it's either a convincing fake, or made by an intern/slave.

I think we should probably question why this person thinks that revealing how the sausage is made will endear anyone to them.

Honestly, if you are trying to so a "back in my day" to 10 years ago... I think you should take a moment and reexamine some of the fundamental facts that you are basing your worldview on. You're likely relying on flawed anecdotal evidence to decide how things used to be.

It's possible your personal journey is effected by your experiences. 2009 was a financial crisis, when I'm sure many people were desperate for money. Others delayed entering the workforce by taking on college debt. It's not a sign of a healthy economy, but the strategic decisions of millions of people...

And in 2009 there was no pandemic. You weren't risking actual life and limb to work a 9-5. In 2009 most people didn't have smartphones. There was no real option to make money online.

And let's be clear: just because people aren't working for a corporation in a 9-5 doesn't imply they aren't working. Today you can make money online easier (Only Fans comes to mind). The people who become internet models can make more money quitting their jobs and devoting their effort to content creation. And honestly, a pornstar has more prestige and better hours than McDonald's, too...