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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by korantu on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:07PM (#25368138)
My understanding of GP point is that majority of social media companies is negative to Trump and positive to Biden. The difference with Russia is that media is controlled by government, but the original point is that it is healthier when media scrutinises government
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by cgrealy on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:23PM (#25368826)
citation very much needed.

Just because content on social media is negative towards Trump, doesn't mean the platform itself is.

In fact, Twitter has been incredibly lenient with Trump. Much of what he tweets (threats for example) contravene the TOS.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by jcranmer on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:58PM (#25369507)
As I recall, after his election, Twitter explicitly updated its TOS to basically say that they don't apply to certain public figures, in effect admitting that he does violate the TOS but they are unwilling to do anything about it.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by julianapostate on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:36PM (#25369763)
https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-employees-donate-overwhelm...
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by cgrealy on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:44AM (#25370591)
Irrelevant. Employees != company.
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by edmundsauto on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:27PM (#25368341)
> My understanding of GP point is that majority of social media companies is negative to Trump and positive to Biden

I don't think this is accurate, unless you mean that most employees of big tech vote/contribute Democrat. However, it doesn't necessarily follow that bias exists on the platform.

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