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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation by goodluckchuck on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:18PM (#24790294)
That's the how, but not the why.

A free flow of information is a net good. Restricting information is a net bad. Western society learned this 400 years ago.

These are the same arguments which were used against the printing press, now being used against the internet, fighting against a new enlightenment the same way that the church fought to maintain their monopoly on knowledge.

All combating "extremism" does is protect entrenched stakeholders from the truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapere_aude

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Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:54PM (#24791545)
A free flow of information is a net good - by default.

From this point, publicly visible information that consistently shows to be counterproductive could be reasonably restricted from the highest volume platforms.

1 zillion loopholes ought to be enough for anyone.

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