Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by colechristensen on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:08AM
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The far right not-so-fringe elements led by the president tried to overthrow the government last week. If it had gone slightly differently they could easily have murdered a large chunk of the legislature.
As a result there’s been a wave of deplatforming of the voices that helped encourage that culture.
It is indeed unfortunate that this came to pass but it was a necessary response.
When you test the limits and protections, you ultimately change the nature of them. This is why you really want to avoid doing so in a free society because then you’re faced with the negatives of being forced to restrict freedoms to prevent that test from happening again and facing the threat of the next time someone trying, them having learned the lessons of how to test the limits much more effectively.
As a result there’s been a wave of deplatforming of the voices that helped encourage that culture.
It is indeed unfortunate that this came to pass but it was a necessary response.
When you test the limits and protections, you ultimately change the nature of them. This is why you really want to avoid doing so in a free society because then you’re faced with the negatives of being forced to restrict freedoms to prevent that test from happening again and facing the threat of the next time someone trying, them having learned the lessons of how to test the limits much more effectively.