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Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by cwkoss »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #15
macspoofing wrote: post #4

For 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.

"Meddled" is such an ambiguous term and we are part of an international community.

Using such loose terminology, couldn't you accurately say dozens of nations meddled with the majority of federal US elections in the past 50 years?

If you disagree, what do you think the function of AIPAC is?

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by pupdogg »

shadowgovt wrote: post #200
howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #110

We are very fortunate to have the algorithms, employees & management of Youtube/Google watching out for us. We're not intelligent enough to view a video and decide for ourselves what is fact v. propaganda v. entertainment. Hopefully some day we will have the same protections the CCP gives its people with even more content moderation. Thank you Google - you're the nanny the American people and the world always hoped f…

It's a private company. If you don't like their slant, use another private company. I swear, it's like people have never had to cancel a newspaper subscription before.

I thought Google LLC, it's parent, was a public company?

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by throwaway6734 »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #110

We are very fortunate to have the algorithms, employees & management of Youtube/Google watching out for us. We're not intelligent enough to view a video and decide for ourselves what is fact v. propaganda v. entertainment. Hopefully some day we will have the same protections the CCP gives its people with even more content moderation. Thank you Google - you're the nanny the American people and the world always hoped f…

Does this same logic apply to financial instruments, cigarettes, alcohol, unhealthy food, etc?

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by noitsnot »

shadowgovt wrote: post #200
howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #110

We are very fortunate to have the algorithms, employees & management of Youtube/Google watching out for us. We're not intelligent enough to view a video and decide for ourselves what is fact v. propaganda v. entertainment. Hopefully some day we will have the same protections the CCP gives its people with even more content moderation. Thank you Google - you're the nanny the American people and the world always hoped f…

It's a private company. If you don't like their slant, use another private company. I swear, it's like people have never had to cancel a newspaper subscription before.

The monopoly that is Google and its products? There are no other viable options, I promise.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by [deleted] »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #110

We are very fortunate to have the algorithms, employees & management of Youtube/Google watching out for us. We're not intelligent enough to view a video and decide for ourselves what is fact v. propaganda v. entertainment. Hopefully some day we will have the same protections the CCP gives its people with even more content moderation. Thank you Google - you're the nanny the American people and the world always hoped f…

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Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by pavanky »

PeterStuer wrote: post #64

Regardless of what you believe to be 'The Truth', has suppression or censorship ever worked to quench dissonance or convince skeptical people, again, whether right or wrong, that there really is 'nothing to see here'.

Spam filters worked plenty fine over email.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by supergirl »

duemti wrote: post #140

I'm baffled how people support this behavior from big tech. It almost seems like they think of themselves as immune to this somehow, like little sheep unable to comprehend that they themselves once will deviate will get the same treatment (assuming they have spine to stand for what they believe).

until their google account is terminated for liking a forbidden video

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by enumjorge »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #110

We are very fortunate to have the algorithms, employees & management of Youtube/Google watching out for us. We're not intelligent enough to view a video and decide for ourselves what is fact v. propaganda v. entertainment. Hopefully some day we will have the same protections the CCP gives its people with even more content moderation. Thank you Google - you're the nanny the American people and the world always hoped f…

Once again a thread about censorship invites comments that ignore the nuance of the situation. Having companies dictate what information is widely accessible is dangerous for democracy. Having the sitting president make completely baseless claims in an effort to delegitimize the results of an election because it didn’t go his way is also dangerous for democracy. That’s what we call a tricky situation. We don’t have an easy solution.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by gthtjtkt »

dleslie wrote: post #131
Pungsnigel wrote: post #67

Will this include all videos talking of the Russia collusion?

No, because that actually happened. https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512487-senate-p...

Your own article disagrees with you:

> The committee's findings are a more in-depth look at the interference than Mueller's investigation, but the findings run parallel to the conclusions of Mueller's probe, which found overwhelming evidence of Russia's efforts to interfere in the election through disinformation and cyber campaigns but a lack of sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to impact the outcome of the 2016 election.

Mueller didn't indict a single US citizen for conspiring with Russia.

It didn't happen.

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