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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ardy42 on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:54PM (#23226859)
> An open forum is not the same as letters to the editor.

I disagree.

"I rented this hall [for this open forum], and now I’m going to turn off the lights."

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by koheripbal on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:00PM (#23227629)
You really don't see the difference between an editor selecting one person to speak, versus a forum where almost everyone gets to speak?
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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ardy42 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:28PM (#23227948)
> You really don't see the difference between an editor selecting one person to speak, versus a forum where almost everyone gets to speak?

There is no difference. If I invite people to come to my place to talk in some kind of forum, I have no obligation to let people who I think are disruptive or offensive stay, nor do I have an obligation to preserve any record of their words.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by koheripbal on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:02PM (#23228335)
There's also an important difference between "your house" and a common open forum with tens of millions of people.
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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by ardy42 on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:19PM (#23228499)
> There's also an important difference between "your house" and a common open forum with tens of millions of people.

No, not really. The only difference that's important is between forums run by the government and forums that are not. In the case of the latter, the people who run it have an extremely free hand.

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