YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
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#2Censorship bad
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#3because these views threaten corporate profits
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#4Censorship bad
Hey coinward, according to HN, that's not the case ;)
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#5Note that it's not extreme views (like my adherence to the FSF).
Nope, we're talking about "videos and channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies".
As much as I don't like censorship, views that advocate for extermination of other people can rightly fuck off.
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#6Extreme political views. The title is missing a very important qualifier.
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#8Let's be clear here. The left is hoping that anything that doesn't conform to their worldview of identity politics, socialism, climate change will be banned. In other words, they're hoping that conservatives, libertarians, and others that don't conform to the leftist hive-mind will be banned.
If I were Google I'd be very careful here with the DOJ knocking on their door.
Re: YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
#9Extreme political views. The title is missing a very important qualifier.
I added it, although the it's on the NYT website.
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#10And here we go. As usual the "racist" pretext is being used to censor videos.
I have no doubt that there are some terrible awful racist videos in that lot but you have to wonder how many times this is ALSO used as a mean to censor pretty much any video that the youtube execs don't like. Censorship is getting worse
Edit: Replacing "Censorship is coming back" with "Censorship is getting worse"