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YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
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Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#12Jeez. They could have been doing this for the last month before it became endemic. How much damage did the Trump team do to America's democracy with a month of sore-losership?
There's video evidence of Republican poll watchers being thrown out of key precincts in swing states, with hundreds of thousands of ballots being counted overnight with no chain of custody, signature verification, or oversight from opposing parties. THAT is damaging to democracy. That has to be addressed and not suppressed.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#13Jeez. They could have been doing this for the last month before it became endemic. How much damage did the Trump team do to America's democracy with a month of sore-losership?
I generally agree with you, but I doubt YT did a significant amount of damage compared to all the mainstream news coverage of Trump himself.
If Trump were a no-name fringe conspiracist, YT could be blamed for amplifying him. But he has Twitter, every news org, and his campaign's mailing list that (combined) are probably far more influential.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#14Jeez. They could have been doing this for the last month before it became endemic. How much damage did the Trump team do to America's democracy with a month of sore-losership?
There's video evidence of Republican poll watchers being thrown out of key precincts in swing states, with hundreds of thousands of ballots being counted overnight with no chain of custody, signature verification, or oversight from opposing parties. THAT is damaging to democracy. That has to be addressed and not suppressed.
Great example. This is exactly the conspiracy damage that they could have prevented by cracking down on this stuff earlier. All of this is easily disproven.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#15For God's sakes ... What underpins this need for social media companies to virtue signal about protecting 'election integrity' is the false notion that 2016 was stolen from Hillary by the Russians - a claim that had no evidential support (and no, that some trolls bought a minuscule amount of Facebook ads does not raise this claim to that level) but the entire Democratic party, with media allies, promulgated for the l…
You are mis-stating the assertion.
The Government said that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election. They didn't say it changed the results.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#16> Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election... This is likely going to make a lot of c…
YouTube is run by a private company, they can do what they like with the content they own.
If they don’t want to show the content, tough luck.
Don’t like the content? Don’t watch it.
Don’t agree with their ethics ? Don’t use their product.
It’s simple.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#17> Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election... This is likely going to make a lot of c…
YouTube is run by a private company, they can do what they like with the content they own. If they don’t want to show the content, tough luck. Don’t like the content? Don’t watch it. Don’t agree with their ethics ? Don’t use their product. It’s simple.
Freedom for me, but not for thee.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#18For God's sakes ... What underpins this need for social media companies to virtue signal about protecting 'election integrity' is the false notion that 2016 was stolen from Hillary by the Russians - a claim that had no evidential support (and no, that some trolls bought a minuscule amount of Facebook ads does not raise this claim to that level) but the entire Democratic party, with media allies, promulgated for the l…
“Virtue signaling”
Being a good person? No one needs to tell you anything again, you got it right the first time.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#19This comment section is being brigaded.
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#20This policy is wicked and wrong. There are no other words for this policy. YouTube is deciding what of true and enforcing its perspective on the rest of the population.
And you know it won't stop here. From now on, every time a controversy emerges between the media-tech-academia elite view of the world and the views of regular people, tech will use hard censorship to enforce the elite perspective. There is no natural stopping point or limiting principle.
It is not the place of a few Bay Area policy people to decide for the whole world what is true and what is false. They are not God. Nobody voted for them. They have no power except the brute force of a natural monopoly's market share. Infrastructure companies must be part of the neutral background of technological society, not enforcers of a specific worldview.