YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results

Post by 3np » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 2:32 AM UTC

godmode2019 wrote: post #288

3np wrote: post #179

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This is ridiculous hyperbole. Maybe what you’re saying is true in the US and several other places but there are absolutely unrigged elections elsewhere. Then you could respond with how things are effectively systemically rigged through gerrymandering/news media/misinformation/propaganda/mind control/harassment/selective enforcement but that’s something else.

Where are you thinking? Iceland maybe, but that would be the exception to the rule.

Post by CamperBob2 » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 2:34 AM UTC

   When reached for comment, YouTube policy communications 
   manager Ivy Choi confirmed that the channel had been 
   suspended for posting content in violation of YouTube’s 
   policies.  “We removed content from and issued a strike 
   to this channel for violating our election integrity 
   policy, and as a result, this channel is suspended from 
   publishing new videos or livestreams for seven days,” 
   Choi told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We do allow 
   for content with sufficient educational, documentary, 
   scientific or artistic context, which the removed content 
   did not contain.”

Post by CamperBob2 » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 2:35 AM UTC

another_story wrote: post #187

dayvid wrote: post #127

It's scary how many of the systems we were worried about in China (e.g. social credit system, censorship, etc.) are basically being created now in the west through the proxy of critical companies blocking access and/or working together.

A bit different considering the west has alternatives which are not blocked, whereas China doesn't. You can even spin up your own sources and serve whatever you want,a right not afforded the average Chinese citizen.

Post by BuyMyBitcoins » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 2:38 AM UTC

DoctorOW wrote: post #229

cryptonector wrote: post #192

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> If it's instructions on drinking bleach, why censor it? Not comparable.

That's fair. Instructions on drinking bleach might cause others to be harmed. This is different because nobody has ever come to harm because of this. I'd imagine if people believed this, there would have been some kind of violence on say, January 6th the day of the insurrection-- sorry, inauguration. Please let me know if you know how to fix this unfortunate typo.

Post by rayiner » Sat, Mar 05, 2022, 2:38 AM UTC

AaronFriel wrote: post #133

natsup123490 wrote: post #75

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Hard times and war change people. Many changes are negative: poorer, less secure, less trusting, more fearful, devastating losses. But other changes are for the better. And you don't need war to make these changes. If you make them before hard times come, you'll be better prepared for them: becoming more stoic (less emotional, less offended at everything), becoming more serious, more resourceful, more self-reliant, l…

All of the things you wrote as good things are (mostly) good things, glittering generalities that have no bearing on whether hard times are good or bad. To connect the two, you'd have to complete the scurrilous reference made that we are currently in a time of "weak men". You may or may not be aware that the "Hard times..." meme is widely used among not just stoics, but also fascist groups to suggest that the current…