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Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by slacka »

muttantt wrote: post #176

This is ridiculous. Regardless of your politics, this is just going the wrong direction. Where was this policy when the other side was pushing the Russia collusion narrative for years?

Nice false equivalence. Judges have ruled that Trump's side has failed to show any evidence of fraud in Court, losing 50/51 court cases, with the "win" having nothing to do with fraud[1]. On the other hand, there are literally thousand of pages from the Senate Committee on Intelligence showing evidence of Russian Interference in 2016. [2] [3], along with the Mueller Report [4]. Russian Interference in 2016 is not comparable to Trump's false claims of fraud in 2020.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-losing-election-laws...

[2] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[3] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[4] https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by sleepysysadmin »

rayiner wrote: post #43
sleepysysadmin wrote: post #37

>Connecting people to authoritative information Top channels from picture. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com ABC: Left of Center NBC: Left of Center USA today: Left of Center CNN: Left CBS: Left of Center The "Authoritative Sources" are all Left-wing news agencies. So in other words they have done like Wikipedia. They have determined that Left of Center is authoritative and have limited the reach of alternative viewpoin…

For people who doubt your characterization of where the "center" is, consider this: 2/3 of Americans oppose the Supreme Court decision banning school prayer. Is your idea of a "centrist" person someone who believes school prayer would be a good idea if the law were different?

>For people who doubt your characterization of where the "center" is, consider this: 2/3 of Americans oppose the Supreme Court decision banning school prayer. Is your idea of a "centrist" person someone who believes school prayer would be a good idea if the law were different?

I provided the website from which I got those details. I don't know how they come to these conclusions but I would tend to find that they are correct.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by misiti3780 »

hnracer wrote: post #150
misiti3780 wrote: post #90

Is there any article or video out there that outlines a compelling case of how massive election fraud could have even occurred ? I do believe some election fraud happened, how could it not with 150MM voters in this past election. But I have yet to read a single article that could outline any explanation for how democrats stole 8MM votes so Trump lost, but did not change down-ballot votes so that they also lost house…

This is what someone who believe the election was stolen would say in response to what you've said: (1) It's not 8mm votes (popular vote disparity) that needed to be flipped, it's only the disparity in swing states that needs to be flipped. (2) If election voting systems were hacked, that could explain a large number of votes specifically in swing states. You can check the time series data from Edison Research which…

Thanks! - I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted for asking a question that is not politically motivated ...I was just generally curious.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by ThrustVectoring »

> We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election.

I'd be honestly curious if this includes the 1876 presidential election, in which 101% of eligible voters in South Carolina had their ballot counted, and the dispute over the proper way to count disputed electoral college votes was vigorous and deadlocked enough that the Democratic party got the end of Reconstruction as a concession in the Compromise of 1877 as compensation for allowing a Republican president.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by SavageBeast »

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…

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

The AG of Texas has alleged wrongdoing officially in the form of a suit. I wonder what YouTubes policy would be of someone reading this document on video?

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by ve55 »

Is there any evidence that removal of content one believes to be false actually achieves the remover's goals of changing the opinions of the potential viewers?

I would personally be quite upset if I found platforms deleting content that I wanted to read and learn about, I don't think anyone wants someone else to choose what they can and can't learn about, regardless of its veracity.

Again, I'm sure Google starts with good intentions here, but I'm not sure they have thought this all the way through. We'll see in the coming years.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by findjashua »

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…

yes, as we have seen over the course of history, people are completely impervious to misinformation and propaganda.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by SCLeo »

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…

This is slippery slope fallacy. I don't think YouTube removing genuially harmful and false content is really comparable to CCP's suppression of opposing views.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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