YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by somehnrdr14726 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:37AM (#25373034)

You are free to host your video evidence on your own website, following your own internal moderation rules for what is deemed credible or not. No one is taking this right from you.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by abernard1 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:53AM (#25373149)

> No one is taking this right from you.

Correct. But it's tantamount to saying "you can't speak in this public square, how about you pretend your front yard is a public square and speak there."

Eventually, people are going to say the hell with that and that Google's "private" management of 90% of inbound searches and content is, in fact, public.

After that, maybe we can start calling it Gov-gle or something once it's nationalized.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by somehnrdr14726 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:47AM (#25373617)

There are no public squares on the internet. Every DNS resolution leads to privately owned 'land'. You can be escorted off the property for nearly any reason.

Maybe Youtube gave the misconception that they were a public square when they weren't moderating as heavily.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by abernard1 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:50AM (#25373646)

> Maybe Youtube gave the misconception that they were a public square when they weren't moderating as heavily.

Welp. Time to get rid of Section 230 then!

Apparently these companies aren't neutral carriers and should be held liable for what they censor in their editorial discretion.

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