IMO censorship is wrong. To quote someone smarter than me:
> I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
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#12I see no way that this power, first applied to uncontroversially-bad information, will ever be misused. What happened to "organise _the world's_ information, and make it _accessible_ and useful"?
what happened is the trolls and insane people got all the clicks and it made the public dumber.
Would that have happened if these platforms "organised _the world's_ information, and made it _accessible_ and useful" instead of using engagement driven filter bubbles?
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#13While channels with extreme stance that have public health repercussion are easy enough for them to shut down, I worry more about amateur channels with conspiracy-oriented bating materials that polarize people to either extreme.
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#14I despise David Icke but I think platforms like YouTube or Facebook should remain neutral. It's not their job to tell us what people should be looking at or not. Then what? We end up like China where we can only browse government propaganda?
Yes, and the scary thing is that many folks--including commenters here on HN--look forward to it.
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#15I predict a near future update from David on how the Lizard people plotted against our enlightenment once again by blocking him from us. Fear not, he has found new ways to make us aware of the consciousness field, saturn, and 5G its emotion affecting effects.
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#16I see no way that this power, first applied to uncontroversially-bad information, will ever be misused. What happened to "organise _the world's_ information, and make it _accessible_ and useful"?
Just because that power can be misused doesn't mean they should never use it.
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Bad. Stipulating that you're correct in your assessment:
* the opportunity to drive trucks through and over the holes in the reasoning and teach people something through a "Stuff David Icke Says" parody channel is snuffed.
* Icke gets to assume a martyr pose.
* YouTube looks a trifle authoritarian.
The truth doesn't have to resort to heavy-handedness to prevail. Newton's Third Law applies (in a social way) in these forcing situations.
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#18Yay another extremist swept under the digital carpet, problem solved - well NO.
This will just shift this extremist content to other unregulated and unmonitored platforms that will not engage in debate, but blindly accept such things.
After all, if people believe this kinda stuff, cutting of the head won't stop them believing, just shifts the problem out of the public glare, at least on the surface.
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#19I despise David Icke but I think platforms like YouTube or Facebook should remain neutral. It's not their job to tell us what people should be looking at or not. Then what? We end up like China where we can only browse government propaganda?
I'm sure there's plenty of online communities out there that you can watch/read right wing conspiracy nutjobs opinions on. This is not comparable to China - YouTube is not the government. They're a private company choosing not to host this content.
Where are all the free speech advocates complaining about YouTube not hosting porn, or demonetizing videos with swear words in them? Why do you only come out of the woodwork en masse when it's the right wingers being censored?
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#20Fine, if youtube is going to censor conspiracy then they should censor all conspiracy disinformation channels. Haven't there been a bunch of conspiracies peddled by CNN, MSNBC, Foxnews, NYTimes, WaPo, [enter almost every major news outlet] just within the past few years alone? What about politicians, government employees, business people, celebrities, late night hosts, etc who peddle conspiracy? Will they be censored?
So according to youtube, only the wealthy connected elites are allowed to espouse conspiracy?