Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by Thorentis on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:43AM
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Politicians have been making false claims about the opposing party for centuries. Suddenly now Big Tech decides they have the right to pick and choose which lies will be allowed and which won't be? Pathetic.
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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by thereare5lights on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:45AM
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False equivalence. Big Tech has always removed content that could imminently incite violence.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by Thorentis on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:16AM
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How do you determine which speech incites violence? Posts about the BLM movement increased the likelihood of a small minority of people engaging in looting. The majority of protesters did not loot. Just like the majority of Trump supporters did not storm Capitol Hill. If individuals will react to information with violence, that is on them. Big Tech is not the moral or behavioral conscience of the nation.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel
by khawkins on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:51AM
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Banning things left and right is inciting more violence than the content itself. They're making a lot of people desperate who were already extremely distrustful of authority. They don't need Steve Bannon to tell them that tech companies are trying to silence their movement, all they need is Hacker News.