YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's Lead

Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by tchaffee on Monday August 06, 2018 @10:43PM (#17703550)

Forcing YouTube, Facebook, or the side of your house to host Alex Jones' content is inhibiting freedom of speech. People and companies have a right to not say things. If they don't, then please let me know when Alex Jones will be setting aside some of his website and paying for the hosting for my views. I have a lot to say. It would be great to piggy back on his 10 million visitors a month and get a free audience.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by acct1771 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:17AM (#17706261)

When you become large enough that you are effectively replacing the town square, you have an extraordinary responsibility to let everyone have their soap box, because otherwise, you are dictating public opinion.

For better or for worse, the ideas that grasp the most people have prevailed historically.

Letting one small group of people, regardless of how they're chosen, or how self-righteous they feel, decide what's okay and not okay to say, will never end well.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by tchaffee on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:32PM (#17708126)

Who will enforce that responsibility? Who decides what's large enough?

> Letting one small group of people

What one small group of people? There are literally thousands of social media sites, and people are completely free to join or quit any one of them. If there were no competition in this space, I might be concerned. But just a few short years ago Facebook was unheard of and MySpace was the "monopoly".

Let customers choose. The customers are not one small group of people.

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