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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by pjc50 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:42PM (#25362300)
We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by disgrunt on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:53PM (#25362548)
And if the wrong idea is censorship itself?
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by curiousgeorgio on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:45PM (#25362366)
> We've got to this place because the people with wrong ideas were succeding.

Hate to break it to you, but if those ideas are succeeding, maybe they weren't wrong after all...

Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by kibwen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:59PM (#25362715)
The marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than free society can remain solvent.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by kube-system on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:53PM (#25362557)
History is full of people with very clearly wrong ideas who were succeeding at the time. Something something, Godwin's law.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by curiousgeorgio on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:58PM (#25362671)
History is more full of examples where censorship has lead to tyranny and the downfall of civilizations.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by kube-system on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:08PM (#25362897)
Government censorship, yes. Fortunately, that is not happening here.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by epakai on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:23PM (#25363182)
Godwin's law, but Hitler succeeded for a very long time in the decade before WW2. This isn't a useful metric for determining whether ideas are right or wrong.