YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke

Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by rowanG077 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @09:15PM (#23063504)

I completely agree. For the simple fact that no human or organisation can be trusted with the power to silence anyone or any group.

I Think this should apply to functional social monopolys as well. YouTube/facebook/instagram etc shouldn't be allowed to remove content they deem untrue.

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by streb-lo on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:11AM (#23064766)

HN has a monopoly on discussion between people with (slightly) above-average critical thinking skills. Should we ban their moderation as well?

15 years ago the idea of an internet video monopoly didn't even exist and if it did no one would have cared.

What you are suggesting is impossible to enforce or even reason about.

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by jstanley on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:01AM (#23066565)

If HN moderators started censoring posts because they disagreed with them, or thought the ideas were "too dangerous" (rather than just because they were spam) then yeah people would start complaining about it.

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by rowanG077 on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:11AM (#23067003)

I don't think HN has a monopoly on discussion between people with (slightly) above-average critical thinking skills. Many sub-reddits fit that definition as well.

I don't follow how this would be impossible to enforce. The person whose content on youtube is removed for example is going to complain. It's dead simple to slap youtube with a couple million dollar fine for such things.

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