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YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

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Re: YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

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Post by kyrieeschaton »

So glad the people who a couple months ago were pushing "bro, don't wear a mask, just spit directly in your neighbor's mouth" as an epidemiological best practice are now in charge of evaluating not just the long term effects of every emerging technology, but the extent to which they can even be discussed.

Re: YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

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kyrieeschaton wrote: post #2

So glad the people who a couple months ago were pushing "bro, don't wear a mask, just spit directly in your neighbor's mouth" as an epidemiological best practice are now in charge of evaluating not just the long term effects of every emerging technology, but the extent to which they can even be discussed.

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Re: YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

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Post by gameswithgo »

endgame wrote: post #6

I 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.

Re: YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

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Post by xf1cf »

herdodoodo wrote: post #3

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Whether or not you agree with him is one thing. Youtube, Facebook, and other companies are treading a very thin line around Provider vs Publisher. Sure, most people might think that Icke doesn't make much sense, but how long until something _you_ like is censored off the platform?

If you truly do believe in a table for rational discussion all ideas should be considered regardless of how far-out they may seen. By banning various controversial figures from one side, but allowing other controversial figures from the other side to continue, is diametrically opposed to the idea of "open discussion" you claim to be supporting in your argument.

You may not care. But then you are not a proponent of free speech on a platform. When the platform becomes a global nerve center for content the argument "they are a private company and can do what they want" must be looked at with significantly more scrutiny. It would be extremely naive to not believe that YouTube not only knows they have this level of control, but are actively seeking to exploit it.

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