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The YouTube shadow ban is bad enough, but to me the even scarier part comes further down the thread: > A few months ago I uploaded a video about police brutality. It showed explicit acts of violence by the police, and it was understandably age-gated. The video was appropriate only for older audiences, but did not break any of YouTube's terms and conditions. > That video earned me a visit from the DHS, who asked me ab…
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The police aren’t the causality though, they’re a component of response to crime. Crime is the issue and that will never be a 0 sum thing.
Then why have police killings gone up despite crime going down? Also, why are police dispatched for non-violent crimes? I don't think someone with a gun and a license for violence should be sent out for any report of a non violent crime.
That said, American police needs better funding and better training. They need to learn how to deescalate situations.
Speaking as a lurker, this seems basically like what people have been asking for for awhile now including here. I remember seeing numerous top comment chains over the last four years (and of course before that but not here) that all boiled down to very eloquent defenses of censoring fringe thinkers. Who knows, maybe in theory land there's no reason we can't have it both ways. But it seems to me that in the real world…
So enumerating historical events became being a fringe thinker?
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Then why have police killings gone up despite crime going down? Also, why are police dispatched for non-violent crimes? I don't think someone with a gun and a license for violence should be sent out for any report of a non violent crime.
Because most violent crimes start as non violent crimes. That said, American police needs better funding and better training. They need to learn how to deescalate situations.
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You can easily search for the exact title, order by all the right things and is not there, you can see a reaction but not the actual video. https://ibb.co/j8rbkks
Videos don't always appear in search results immediately. He could have also just unlisted the video. I've uploaded hundreds of videos and many don't really show up in the results if they are similar to many other videos. If you just search "CIA terrorist organization" you get plenty of other video that are similar to the one described, so it's doubtful this one was censored for content.
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A clumsy propagandist for whom? A secret cabal of evildoers who plot the day that USA will do less racist shit?
Just because you view all history as the result of a "secret cabal of evildoers" (in this case, plotting to preserve slavery) doesn't mean I have to. As you let slip here, Horne's writings aren't about history: they're a form public of agitation so that "the USA will do less racist shit". Which would be fine if he was a social critic or a politician. But he's been passing himself off as a historian.
The YouTube shadow ban is bad enough, but to me the even scarier part comes further down the thread: > A few months ago I uploaded a video about police brutality. It showed explicit acts of violence by the police, and it was understandably age-gated. The video was appropriate only for older audiences, but did not break any of YouTube's terms and conditions. > That video earned me a visit from the DHS, who asked me ab…
Are you a naturalized American citizen?
I know the site isn't meant for political discussion, but other stories about tech companies censoring political opinions haven't fallen from the front page as quickly as this one.
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Children are taught to not question what they're told, because it's much easier on parents and teachers when children don't question what they're told. Then when they're adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they've been miseducated and they're easy targets for disinformation. To me, the solution is obviously better education. When people believe the Earth is round only because that's what the…
> Children are taught to not question what they're told, because it's much easier on parents and teachers when children don't question what they're told. Then when they're adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they've been miseducated and they're easy targets for disinformation. I'm gonna guess you don't have children. Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don't understand nuance at al…
I don't have kids myself, but I do remember how it is to be a child, having been one myself a while ago :D
I can assure you kids understand nuance quite well if they're explained things properly, patiently, in a friendly manner.