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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by krapp on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:50AM (#20123282)
>But seriously, people promoting rule changes so that advertisers can exclude anything sinful are certainly also against anything that makes Youtube interesting.

"sin" isn't the only interesting thing about Youtube. I watch plenty of content which is both non-violent and interesting.

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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by raxxorrax on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:55AM (#20123602)
I choose that word to highlight similarities to deprecated moral authorities. Not even because of the morals at hand, but because of the insufficiently legitimized authority.

For example for Europe: sex => ok; violence => not ok

compared to the US: sex => not ok; violence => ok

What we will end up with: sex => not ok; violence => not ok

What might be best for educated civil society: sex => ok; violence => ok

Pretty reductionist, but that is where I see Youtube heading towards to.

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