Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by samdlathsworth on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:18PM
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That’s the point. This might be acceptable if there was even one single thing about YouTube that was itself democratic in any way.
Since there isn’t, this is an inherently anti-democratic maneuver.
The corporate oligarchy is shedding yet a bit mote hesitation to fully realize itself. This is not a good thing.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by worik on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:24PM
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It is private property! Why do you expect it to be "democratic"?
Whilst the abolition of private property is a interesting idea, that is not, I expect, what you would advocate?
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by jmnicolas on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:35PM
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When you're the ONLY* alternative for videos online you have a moral obligation of being impartial.
* Vimeo, Daily Motion, Lbry or whatever else have even less shares than desktop Linuxes vs Windows. YouTube is the only game in town.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by SamBam on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:51PM
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The popularity of other equally-good services should have no bearing on whether a service has a "moral obligation" to do something. There's nothing preventing all the conspiracy theorists from deciding en masse to move to Vimeo, or setting up their own video posting system on Gab or Parler.
You tube has no obligation to carry anything. It has nothing to do with "Free Speech", that would be a very lazy characterisation.
Companies like Google can control what is easily available and discoverable next to the cat videos etc but they do not "...dictate what information is widely accessible"
Any website or even more so IP address is widely accessible. Why should Google sit around and let experienced psy ops operators have free reign on their platform?
So there is a easy solution for Google - remove it.