Of all thedumb stuffsome of us are shamed of indulging in during the current pandemic , downplaying its stiffness is certainly common . We ’ve seenSean Hannitydo it . We ’ve seenElon Muskdo it . And while a short ton of us have probably seen Dr. Drew do it — thanks toa supercutof the media power that go viral over the weekend — he seems to be the only one of these media top executive who ’s sin - bent on erasing any evidence that he ever downplayed the pandemic in the first place .
In anow - edit tweet train of thought , the medico claimed the cutting off of clip taken from February and March of this year infringed “ copywrite[sp ] laws , ” telling one person who upload the cut to “ hang onto your retweets , ” or “ erase [ the post ] to be safe . ”
Whileat least one copyof the initial video recording is still circulating around on YouTube thanks to a user holler himself “ Dr. Droops , ” it looks like the original reading was ripped from the video - sharing site — not by the creator , but by Dr. Drew himself . Anyone who tries visiting the original URL that housed the video will find that the initial creatorwas smackedwith a copyright claim from Dr. Drew ’s own product company , Drew Pinsky Inc.
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This copyright ten-strike — whichwe’ve screengrabbedin all of its faux - legal glory — is just the late exemplar ofThe Streisand Effect : the term mint back in the early aughts to refer to anyone ’s attempts to censor intel about themselves online , only to bring their screwup to harsher visible light in the process . After all , neither I nor my friends watch much Dr. Drew , so the cartridge holder — in which he seriously downplays the distressfulness of a pandemic that ’s claimedroughly 10,000 livesin the U.S. alone — ab initio avoided my agate line of sight . But when he started conjure YouTube’snotoriously shittycopyright policies to extend it up , suddenly I ’m very , very interested .
Even if Drew wishes that it was , the original supercut — where he call in the Coronavirus “ way less virulent than the grippe , ” insists that newspaper headline should be branding it “ way less serious than grippe , ” and jokes about the idea of possibly close down the Olympics — isn’t outlawed in the slightest . While the clips themselves were post without his say - so , the contentedness of the clips come squarely in the land of literary criticism and in the world ’s interest , make the supercut itself fall square within the region offair use . And as Techdirt manoeuvre out in their own reportage , the lawcourt have been telling plaintiffs for nigh half a X that they postulate to be mindful of sightly consumption before send off down a takedown , following theLenz v. Universal Musiccase of 2015 .
Just to be all clear , seeing Dr. Drew irresponsibly downplaying the terror of the coronavirus is in the public interest because he ’s a boob tube Dr. and many citizenry take what he say seriously . The reality is that Drew specializes in dependency , he ’s not an epidemiologist , and your life would be no worse if you push aside his existence entirely .
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It ’s worth noting that around the same time that these hit — and Twitter threats — were sent out , Drewtook to Twitter himselfto admit that he was wrong in his initial position on COVID-19 . “ My intention was to decrease the panic that I could see follow , ” Drew explained over a TV stream he ’d publish to Twitter on Saturday dark . “ I was trying to get people to assess their emotional response to the other number we were seeing , ” he supply , comparing it to the more than60 million casesof H1N1 about a X ago , not to mention themillions of influenza casesreported by the CDC this class . Strangely lacking from any of these apologies is any cite of his endeavor to quash the clip that started this conversation in the first place . But you canfind all the clip you need on YouTubeto make your own supercut of Dr. Drew getting way out of his lane .
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