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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by supercanuck on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:34AM (#25395862)
>Probably because its dangerous to democracy to silence people

YouTube is not silencing anyone. These people are free to espouse these views espouse these views anyway they please just not on YouTube's private property. The New York Times is not a danger to democracy because they refuse to publish my article on why the earth is flat.

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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by chordalkeyboard on Saturday December 12, 2020 @01:42AM (#25396197)
> YouTube is not silencing anyone. These people are free to espouse these views espouse these views anyway they please just not on YouTube's private property.

Its dangerous to democracy for oligarchs to have this much control over the discourse.

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