YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
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#2This is inexcusable. Just cancelled my YouTube premium subscription. All they did was play a clip from CPAC. I wish nothing but the worst for Google.
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#3Right on.
If you are dumb enough to censor, you can only censor content and the frame you are looking through doesn't make any difference.
Imagine in a totalitarian regime, you would like to inform people on system critical thoughts others have been executed for, so people can avoid them.
Re: YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
#4I see a number of defamation cases Google won based on neutrality being relitigated in the near future. But that's okay, they have deep pockets.
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#5Yet there's tons of animal abuse videos which they don't even have an issue monetizing.
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#6This makes no sense at all. Are we supposed to just pretend that Trump never made these claims? It's one thing to try to continue supporting these claims with false information and an entirely different thing to post him repeating those claims in an unrelated matter.
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#7One of the hosts wrote this about it [1]:
particularly appropriate quote:
> What casual observers might not understand, however, is just how far the policy goes. Not only does YouTube punish channels that spread misinformation, but in many cases, it also punishes channels that report on the spread of misinformation. The platform makes no distinction between the speaker and the content creator. If a channel produces a straight-news video that merely shows Trump making an unfounded election-related claim—perhaps during a speech, in an interview, or at a rally—YouTube would punish the channel as if the channel had made the claim, even if no one affiliated with the channel endorsed Trump's lies.
[1]: https://reason.com/2022/03/03/youtube-rising-the-hill-electi...
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#9Next up: playing this when you don’t want videos/recordings spreading on YouTube …
Re: YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
#10This is inexcusable. Just cancelled my YouTube premium subscription. All they did was play a clip from CPAC. I wish nothing but the worst for Google.
Over the past year I've switched from Google search to DDG; Google Maps to Apple Maps; Chromecast to Apple TV+; and Drive to Dropbox. I've held off on switching away from Gmail, but I'm switching to something else tonight. Suggestions welcome.
By the way, not that I would support this at all (since I believe in free speech), but any idea if any speeches from Putin or Xi, or official government accounts from either country have been banned from Twitter or YouTube et. al. like our own US President's social media accounts were? I'm guessing not likely, given that they've really done nothing about ISIS accounts in the past, or posts from those on the "left" side of the culture wars calling for and supporting outright violence in US cities or against individuals.