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A comment on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud. Parent comment

Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by UncleMeat on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:39PM (#25369362)
How many times. One time? A thousand times? The ideas have been engaged with. At what point can we stop?
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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by colordrops on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:59PM (#25369513)
> At what point can we stop?

What gave you the idea that there is an end-game? The social dialogue is never ending.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by UncleMeat on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:01AM (#25374338)
> What gave you the idea that there is an end-game? The social dialogue is never ending.

Then this is a denial-of-service attack. Bad-faith actors can hijack the public conversation forever by simply refusing the budge. The public conversation then becomes a free and indefinite platform for them to spread propaganda, and any attempt to change that is portrayed as a great evil.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by travisjungroth on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:19PM (#25369654)
The comment they’re replying to said “get rid of”. That implies an end-game.
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