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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by MaxBarraclough on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:02AM (#23066950)
> What is right wing about claiming 5g causes covid?

Nothing. I hadn't meant to imply it was, but I can see how my comment could be read that way.

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by dang on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:43PM (#23083315)
Please don't start using HN for ideological battle again or we'll have to ban you again. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by MaxBarraclough on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:58PM (#23070449)
> what is "far-right" that needs to be silenced, and why?

I'm not about to explain why I believe YouTube should officially oppose neo-Nazism. [0]

> Do you also want the "far-left" silenced?

If there are left-leaning life-threatening lies being spread, YouTube should treat them similarly. It's not the left/right spectrum that matters here.

I suspect anti-vaxxers tend to lean left, for instance (the natural=good branch of human folly), but it's less clear-cut on the left/right spectrum than Nazism.

On a related note, jihadist recruitment videos could be described as 'far right', but that's not normally how we think of them, and it's not especially relevant. YouTube should clearly ban those videos; the left/right question is of little concern.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke by MaxBarraclough on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:53PM (#23072528)
You've tipped your hand, troll. I believe we're done.