YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures
3 years ago by misk to c/technology
I sympathize. I have a severe nerve disorder and I get quack recommendations constantly. Even worse, I did a YouTube video about it and there were so many quack comments.
Ditto me and my autoimmune disorder
Oh hey, YouTube has a mechanism for that! Simply down-vote the video, and any future viewers will know that the video is likely ineffective because of the visible down-vote count that Google didn't remove to make more money from advertisements. They didn't remove it because they value the health of people suffering from cancer more than money. Good on them.
How time passes. This was not the case when down-votes were there. It used to be easy to identify when videos were full of shit, even with lots of views.
This might help others. It's crowd-sourced and uses averages, but for what it "feels" like, it seems pretty accurate:
You mean this one? With 3.8M up-votes?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJOTdZBX1g
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=YbJOTdZBX1g
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People who believe in dumb idiot BS treatments tend to watch and like those kinds of videos too. Downvoting those videos might not be very effective because of the number of true believers watching them.
Down votes no longer matter. https://techcrunch.com/...
I am thankful for whoever created the Return Youtube dislike addon on desktop browsers, Youtube seems to fix more of what ain't broke. (except for the news above anyway)
Nah, everyone gets that second part wrong. He didn't want you to inject sunlight, he wanted you to breathe it. Somehow. Like, I dunno, inhale a string of UV lights and give your lungs a tan or something.
One would think he would eventually cancel himself.
And it's only taken them... since 2005.
It's probably too risky at this point. She could start foaming at the mouth any minute now and get an incorrect diagnosis of rabies.
If you tell her to wait a few years before drinking, the concentration will naturally go down as time passes. The longer you let this chemical sit in room temperature, the more oxygen and water you’ll have.
And some idiots will believe only more in it because it's "forbidden knowledge" 🙈
Not that the deletion is wrong though ...
When covid conspiracy loonies got kicked out, they landed in odysee and peertube. I guess the history will just repeat itself.
Awww man! Now where am I going to learn about back alley Italian doctors who've just learned about baking soda?
'harmful or ineffective'
the word "Placebo:
I hope they ban any content of Farrah Bunch that are related (includes any other people that promote her product).
since there is no cure for cancer, all of them then?
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When my mom had cancer, I swear every relative and distant acquaintance came out of the woodwork trying to sell some kind of nonsense. It was already a devastating time, but on top of that it was insulting being forced to hear about all these delusional snake oil cures and conspiracy theories.
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