The reason freedom of speech is a must in a free society is that speaking is the same as thinking. Who watches the watchmen? There is no amount of "misinformation" that could ever hold a candle to the absolute evil that has been perpetrated throughout history by outlawing or banning or shunning free speech.
YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
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#44A global conglomerate seeking to carry out an agenda and censoring dissenting opinions, credible and conspiracy alike? Color me surprised.
Allowing this garbage to be spread has been massively, incredibly negligent and reckless, and has caused many, many avoidable deaths.
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#45Time for repeat showing of the free speech debate we’ve already had a dozen times, whoopee! As ever, IMO, the problem isn’t the hosting or the banning, it’s the algorithms. I don’t care whether YouTube hosts anti-vaccine activists, I care that they actively promote anti-vaccine content to users simply because it’s proven to get clicks and earn them money. Bans like this look incredibly stupid when you realise YouTube…
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#46Who will check the fact checkers?
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#50Just a no win situation. It's too easy for bad characters to screw up an entire system with little effort (look at trolls, spammers, etc). Either you moderate everyone and slippery slope down into censorship where the tools used to police are used on good actors, or you do nothing and watch the bad actors poison your entire ecosystem.