Interesting Links for 22-02-2021

[andrewducker]

Delayed second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine: innovation or misguided conjecture?(tags:UK vaccine pandemic ) Boris Johnson becoming increasingly detached from reality(tags:BorisJohnson WTF )Early rate reductions of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in BNT162b2 vaccine recipients(tags:vaccine pandemic GoodNews Israel )The United States is going

Comments

[woodpijn]

What point are you and/or the article writer making about the Hogwarts Legacy guy? It's sounding like they (and, by implication, you) want him to be deprived of his livelihood because of political opinions he expressed in the past and off the clock, but I hope I've misunderstood.

[andrewducker]

Yup. If you're involved in hate-filled abuse campaigns then I don't want to buy things from you. Even if you do so in your own time.

[woodpijn]

Not being deliberately obtuse, but I can't work out whether that's "Yup, I do think he should lose his livelihood" or "Yup, you have misunderstood: I'm happy for Warner to employ him, but I just don't personally want to buy the product."
The article seemed outraged that Warner continued to employ him after he disclosed the YouTube channel to them.

I don't know any more about him than the article says, but it doesn't look like he is (or was) involved in "abuse campaigns". It doesn't say he abused or harassed any individuals. Putting personal opinions on a YouTube channel, which people who find those opinions offensive don't have to watch, is very different from proactively contacting or targeting individuals with abuse or harassment.

[andrewducker]

I wouldn't be buying it anyway (No more money for Potter from me). But if I was, I wouldn't be buying it on these grounds. I'm not stopping other people buying it though.