YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical …::YouTube will remove content about harmful or ineffective cancer treatments or which “discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.”

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Thank you. Finally.

My mum had cancer. The number of such bullshit videos i got sent, offering no real hope, was painful. It’s heartbreaking to toy with people in that situation.

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Could be very profitable though. Use the proceeds to buy genuine cancer therapy and medication. Silver linings!

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That is textbook emotional manipulation.

Having been in that position, no. I would not appreciate being emotionally fucked up.

“Silver linings”.

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YouTube didn’t exist when an Astrocytoma got my old man so this avenue was closed to us and we had to rely on ordinary misinformation. People don’t realise how lucky they are these days.

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Capitalism brain

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that probably means that advertisers started to have issue with that, and it didn’t bother them for well over decade

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If Youtube is gonna be a platform of mass arbitrary censorship, i welcome the few times in its slow downfall that it chooses the right things to arbitrarily censor.

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How rude! Now where will conservatives “do their own research”?

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