> "infringement of our rights."

> you don't have the "right" to a spot on their platform

Who are you quoting? Those words, or that sentiment, don't appear in the article. If you're quoting a comment then reply to that comment. And if you didn't read the article then consider reading it next time.

You don't have a "right" to a spot on their platform but you sure as hell have a right to complain about it and speak up against it when appropriate - which is what this piece is attempting to do.

Yes, but there seems to be a lot of "first amendment" talk in the comments.

There seems to be a lot of "there seems to be" talk in the comments. I have yet to see one comment actually calling this move a violation of the first amendment.

For the record: please post “I support YouTube banning all BLM content because it is not profitable”

I’m just asking you to be ideologically consistent

I don't have to support it, I'm acknowledging that YouTube is allowed to do it. Framing it as being "against our rights" is fruitless. The article author claims that this will inflame tensions, but that's unlikely.

Who is framing the argument that way? No one is saying it's against our rights.

That doesn't mean we can't oppose it. People are allowed to oppose a company's actions, even if they're not illegal

I really doubt there's any careful calculation involved with this. YouTube is run by Susan Wojcicki who's a woman at Google and thus untouchable. She's repeatedly imposed her own left wing views on it despite this obviously attracting severe and negative attention from the ruling parties at the time, despite there being no obvious business case for it and despite many of her mandates making no sense and being unenforceable. "Anything that disagrees with the WHO" was an especially idiotic one because the WHO routinely disagrees with itself.

Basically, the reason this thread is about YouTube and not Google is because Google now has weak and basically absent CEO leadership, so it's split into fiefdoms where different moral standards apply. Chrome is content neutral, Gmail too, Android mostly but a bit less so and YouTube is flat out "if you aren't like Ms Wojcicki you're immoral and should be banned". A strong CEO would sort it out so things are at least consistent but Pichai is useless, he seems to spend his time doing whatever he thinks will get him shouted at the least.