YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views

Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by dane-pgp on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @03:24PM (#20108178)

Telling a silenced victim that they can easily move to somewhere else in digital space is of little comfort when their complaint is that they are being denied access to a public audience who are habitually congregating in an existing location.

The extent to which someone is entitled to an audience is of course more difficult to judge.

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by edmundsauto on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:43PM (#20111139)

I disagree with your last sentence; I don't think anyone is entitled to an audience, so it's not a very difficult situation to judge. Free speech means you can shout in the wind all day long.

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by leereeves on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:31PM (#20111329)

"Free speech means you can shout in the wind all day long."

That's the idea those absurd behind "free speech zones" off in a remote corner.

Free speech means free speech in every public space.

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by edmundsauto on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:12AM (#20111522)

I respect that you take that stance, but I don't share that opinion.

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by leereeves on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:24AM (#20111582)

Well, I'll remind you that Republicans used "free speech zones" to silence critics of the Iraq War.

Personally I fear the future where the government (or monopoly/oligopoly) in power isolates all opposition in a remote corner where no one can hear.

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