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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by ashtonkem on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:23AM (#23064822)
If you’re worried about freedom of speech, then giving more people standing to sue David Icke for taking his dumb advice would be far more stifling than allowing YT to ban people. This would basically allow anyone with deep enough pockets to police speech using the courts.
Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by zimpenfish on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:42AM (#23065478)
> This would basically allow anyone with deep enough pockets to police speech using the courts.

Which, tbf, the US and UK already have to some degree.

Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by ashtonkem on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:06AM (#23066976)
Which is what I was thinking of.

But there is a big difference between the U.K. and America here; in the U.K. if you lose a litigation, you have to pay your opponents legal bills. In America the cases where the loser must pay are very limited with high bars to clear. This means that it’s absolutely possible to bankrupt someone in America with frivolous lawsuits, so long as those lawsuits aren’t bad enough to trigger the limited exceptions.

Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by imgabe on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:28PM (#23075001)
If you're going to give people advice, you should be prepared to take at least partial responsibility for what happens when they take that advice.

If a lawyer, doctor, accountant, engineer, or any professional gives you bad or malicious advice, they expose themselves to liability for the results of it. If you want to present yourself as an expert on some topic and expect people to listen to you, put some skin in the game and stand behind what you say. If you can't do that, you shouldn't be advising people on anything.