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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by nradov on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:20PM (#23682290)
The pressure is more directly from advertisers. Major consumer brands don't want their advertisements appearing next to objectionable user generated content.
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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by snowwrestler on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:52PM (#23682856)
Why not? Because their customers don't like it either.

It all comes down to what is popular and unpopular--which is fine in a marketplace. That's exactly how marketplaces are supposed to work.

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Re:YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer... by chrischattin on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:31PM (#23684157)
It could also be coming from investors. Tencent owns a major chunk of Reddit now.
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