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Re:YouTube announcement on content policies by nr2x on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:06PM (#25674757)
If Republicans continue to spread dangerous lies and falsehoods, tantamount to falsely claiming a theater is on fire, YouTube should push back. If Republicans post policy proposals or comments on cultural issues, YouTube shouldn’t. Courts in the real world have already addressed this issue, YouTube is catching up to the extant rules of society, not making new ones.
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Re:YouTube announcement on content policies by kortilla on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:30PM (#25678569)
Courts have addressed the issue indeed. The reason youtube is acting independently is because this is way beyond what courts have decided is dangerous speech.

If this was driven by courts, they would have an order to show it.

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Re:YouTube announcement on content policies by im3w1l on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:11PM (#25674855)
This is exactly how I expect it to play out.
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