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Re:Coronavirus: 'Murder threats' to telecoms engineers over 5G by Nursie on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:40PM (#22981782)
I would say that because these companies are so ubiquitous, with such reach, they have a duty to stop the people spreading the lies that lead to tower burnings.

It's not true that education fixes idiots, however much you may wish it. Pushing them down stops more people stumbling on their material. The idea that free public debate will stamp out bullshit is a bust. It's failed. Debate, facts and education don't matter for shit against a torrent of nonsense. See for example the antivax folks.

You are content that society plays whack-a-mole with tower burners while the people that actually cause the problem spread their lies and usually make a very nice living fleecing the people they recruit. All enabled by tech platforms run by private companies that you would constrain from acting for some bizarre reason.

It's not that it's ok to censor - removing people from youtube is not censorship. Publishers don't have to publish books they don't want to, newspapers are not obliged to publish articles by antivaxxers, google have no duty whatsoever to provide a platform for lies about 5G and coronavirus.

There is no free speech issue here. I am not obliged to let you stand in my yard and yell, even if it's the best spot in the neighborhood.

Re:Coronavirus: 'Murder threats' to telecoms engineers over 5G by colejohnson66 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @05:51PM (#22981875)
> There is no free speech issue here. I am not obliged to let you stand in my yard and yell, even if it's the best spot in the neighborhood.

You’re again ignoring the size of the space. If you owned all the publicly available land in a city, and stopped just me from protesting on it, that’s a free speech violation. When YouTube first started, this wasn’t an issue, but now it is.

Also, I’ll say it again: free speech and the First Amendment are different things. I recognized that in my post, but you seem content to blur the line between the two in the name of censorship.

Re:Coronavirus: 'Murder threats' to telecoms engineers over 5G by Nursie on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:02PM (#22981964)
Not even google own all the space. There are other video sites and if none of them want you, you can put your propaganda up on your own site.

I'm not American, I'm not really interested in the details of your first amendment. The difference is between government telling you that you can't speak or spread ideas and a publishing platform taking a decision not to carry your pernicious lies.

I'm fine with the latter. It's their commercial choice and it's a benefit to society in this case.

Are you going to get upset at Penguin and tell them it's censorship when they don't publish your novel too? Or maybe Barnes and Noble?