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Re:YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for ... by davorak on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:59PM (#23014808)
> The point to make here is that Youtube is NOT the New England Journal of Science and should not act like one for just one topic

Nor is cnn, fox news, msnbc, etc. They all exercise editorial control over what goes on their channel however.

The rules by which youtube exercises its editor control is its guidelines and policies from my understanding.

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Re:YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for ... by LanceH on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:21PM (#23014963)
> The rules by which youtube exercises its editor control is its guidelines and policies from my understanding.

Which may be the result of its execs being dragged before congress about "fake news" -- hence the allegations of censorship.

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Re:YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for ... by runawaybottle on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:25AM (#23015668)
Is that analogy sincere? YouTube itself has channels, no? Youtube is the TV. Wouldn’t it be fair to say you can exercise editorial control over your channel, but television manufacturers shouldn’t come with it’s own defined restrictions on content?

It would suck if a firmware upgrade goes out to all LG TVs disabling certain content. It’s within LG’s right, but what a betrayal of the customer who was sold a non universal television.

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