YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by Clubber on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:27PM (#25364329)

Tech company executives are being summoned into congressional hearings about it and pressured by the government to censor speech. The fact that the government, congress no less, is pressuring a private entity to do this constitutes the government itself censoring speech. This is just the pressure we know about.

"But the hearing instead left Facebook, Google and Twitter facing conflicting pressures -- from Democrats who say they should patrol their sites and services more aggressively and Republicans who felt the companies should have a more hands-off role with most political speech."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/28/twitter...

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by j2bax on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:58PM (#25364842)

Anyone that wants to hear about how the election was a fraud can still watch any number of right leaning media outlets to get their fill. I'll be concerned when the government actually tries to shut down right or left leaning media outlets.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by Clubber on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:17AM (#25374532)

>I'll be concerned when the government actually tries to shut down right or left leaning media outlets.

Social media sites are shutting down left and right wing media outlets in the form of YouTube, Twitter, etc. These sites are getting pressure form the government to do so. The "press" was never supposed to be a large corporate entity with a cozy relationship with the government. The "press" is supposed to be a citizen press.

“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news”

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