YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban InfoWars, Which Decries 'Mega Purge'

Re:YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban InfoWars, Which Decries '... by gkoberger on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:08PM (#17700656)

I think roads, electricity, and water should be a public utility, but I don't think someone should be able to walk into a Starbucks and scream hateful nonsense.

Here's the difference: Alex Jones can go create his own video site easily, but he can't create his own worldwide ISP.

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Re:YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban InfoWars, Which Decries '... by bcheung on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:30PM (#17700918)

It's not the same. Starbucks is a strawman.

People have to take action and opt in to watching something on YouTube. They have a choice. If people don't want to hear someone they never have to.

Youtube doesn't provide the means for publishers to interrupt what you are currently watching (well there's ads but that's a bit different as ads have increase scrutiny).

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Re:YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban InfoWars, Which Decries '... by buboard on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:39PM (#17701996)

On the internet, the roads, electricity and water are private utilities.

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Re:YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban InfoWars, Which Decries '... by burnallofit on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:17PM (#17700780)

I don't think Alex Jones knows how to code.

And if he used an existing infrastructure like AWS, I would hope AWS would kick him off of it.

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