Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's...
by vixen99 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:26AM
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So presumably, had you sufficient power (in government), this is what you would do. Kind of you to check something out so that I don't have to? Is that the logic?
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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's...
by mirimir on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:10AM
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I didn't say government. Private media have the freedom to choose their policies. And anyone has the right to self publish, if no private media will have them.
Furthermore, I also disagree with existing censorship of "illegal" stuff by governments. Not just social/political dissent in China, or ankle porn in Saudi Arabia. Also censorship by the United States, such as gambling, piracy, mail-order drugs, and so on.
However, there is arguably a place for government censorship of criminal activity that demonstrably causes harm. For example, child abuse (but not merely sharing of "child porn") or revenge porn, and so on. But not stuff that's racist, sexist, etc but doesn't directly advocate violence.