Will Youtube also remove all videos claiming that there was Russian Collusion, Obstruction of Justice which were investigated and proved as being false?
YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
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#742https://www.engadget.com/youtube-election-misinformation-dem... So, i'm kind of curious how it's reasonable a political party can ask for partisan censorship. >YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a letter on Tuesday from four Democratic senators expressing “deep concern” over the spread of election misinformation on Google’s video platform. In the letter, senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii…
This is roughly the equivalent of the yelling "fire" in a crowded theater problem. A lot of these videos are saying things that cannot reasonably be classified as anything other than misinformation. For example, they typically refer to things like mail-in voting as "fraud" to begin with. They also make up vague but scary claims about large numbers of illegal immigrants having voted, etc. All of this has a chilling effect on democracy and people exercising their lawful right to vote by post.
More Senators (from both parties) should be joining the named ones about cracking down on misinformation.
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#743I would really like to hear from someone, who thinks this is censorship and freedom of speech trumps everything. Why were you not shouting when ISIS accounts were being banned by twitter? Why now?
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#744This 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?
Wait - was the "Russia collusion narrative" that one totally crazy massive investigation that ended up getting 34 people indicted? One of them Trump just pardoned Flynn for a week or so ago?
Are you just gonna sit here and pretend like they're even remotely the same thing to a bunch of people calling for the dismissal of our democratic institution of counting votes fairly? As if people were talking about "civil war" and kidnapping of government heads in the opposition party?
You're just like somebody arguing that intolerance of intolerance is itself intolerance. That is a path towards intolerance.
Now I'm not saying we shouldn't question Youtube's decision here, but the way you're doing it is straight up wrong.
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#745So, if China censors something that's censorship and if Youtube and Twitter does it (with the blessing of the Govt) , it's to protect the people from conspiracies..Got it..
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#746https://www.engadget.com/youtube-election-misinformation-dem... So, i'm kind of curious how it's reasonable a political party can ask for partisan censorship. >YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a letter on Tuesday from four Democratic senators expressing “deep concern” over the spread of election misinformation on Google’s video platform. In the letter, senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii…
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#747This is Orwellian bullshit. And I'll take it because I think the alternative is leading to a few greedy assholes using analytical data to successfully weaponize millions upon millions of uninformed people against logic and common sense. Do we add restrictions to voting to weed out people who habitually vote anti-facts? No. Disenfranchisement. Do we make fake news illegal? No. Censorship leading to state run media. Do…
Agreed 100%. YouTube’s massively outsized impact is obviously the problem here. This wouldn’t be Orwellian if they didn’t have so much power. We wouldn’t need it if YouTube didn’t allow for such insane manipulation of people. But if we’re going to have YouTube, by god do I prefer people NOT proliferating this madness freely.
> I prefer people NOT proliferating this madness freely.
Just the madness you happen to agree with, right?
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#748Is 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…
How do you explain away (4) when a dominion machine in Ware County GA was fed equal number of Trump/Biden votes and produced a 26% lead for Biden?
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/12/07/what-to-make-o...
References investigation mentioned by this congressman,
https://twitter.com/CongressmanHice/status/13349196303396413...
Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
#749https://www.engadget.com/youtube-election-misinformation-dem... So, i'm kind of curious how it's reasonable a political party can ask for partisan censorship. >YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a letter on Tuesday from four Democratic senators expressing “deep concern” over the spread of election misinformation on Google’s video platform. In the letter, senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii…
Well, that's an easy question. The answer is No. This isn't government censorship since the government isn't doing it. Same as if a politician asks you not to park on their lawn it's not "Government issues diktat against man for parking car".
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#750Does no-one else notice that the argument to "allow them all to speak" is completely isomorphic to the Creationist vs argument to "teach the controversy" (1) in their bid to suppress the long settled science of Evolution? Does anyone think that "teach the controversy" is a good idea and was done in good faith? (hint: no and no) 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy
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