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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by esja on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:42PM (#25363498)
I don't think "the court of public opinion" is a high enough standard for a prospective world-wide monopolistic censor of information. Such an authority needs to be completely rigorous, completely fair, completely objective, completely informed, and so on. Google cannot meet that bar.

By your standard, Semmelweis would have been censored as "misinformation". Ditto Galileo and the rest.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by HideousKojima on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:29PM (#25367012)
Or for an even more recent example, the scientific community largely rejected plate tectonics initially
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by UncleMeat on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:49PM (#25369444)
And was that borne out in the public square or in scientific journals and conferences? There are reasonable arenas for this material. In this case, that arena is the courts.
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