The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by katmannthree on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:09PM (#25391982)

Consider a utilitarian point of view. This is not about grounding people who already went off the deep end, it's about reducing the number of people who get radicalized. I think from that perspective deplatforming radicals is both ethical and effective.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by JPKab on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:25PM (#25393067)

Obviously I would agree if you're talking about Alex Jones. A thing that worries me is when people are banned or videos are removed when the facts in question are in dispute.

I was a very big proponent of wearing mask in the beginning of the pandemic back when the WHO and Dr Fauci had advised against it not because it was true but to manipulate the public for the purpose of preventing a rush on n95 masks.

If I had stated in a video the truth which was that the public was being manipulated to protect the masks, I would have been contradicting WHO and the video could have been banned. That's a problem.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by vladTheInhaler on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:35PM (#25392397)

I don't understand why you are being downvoted. People may not agree with the sentiment, but it seems salient and reasonably stated.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by lawnchair_larry on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:16PM (#25393610)

Because people who aren’t radicals have been called radicals, and there’s no way that anyone trusts anyone else to decide who is a radical.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by MrMan on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:27PM (#25400786)

It is true, what used to be radical is now becoming normal. Propganda works.

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