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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by raxxorrax on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:47AM (#25729468)
This is still a violation of free speech. Some people abused that right for their own purposes. You will always have such people.

To compromise is the reaction any troll by original definition aims for. And it didn't even work to achieve any goal.

So, you have banned some controversial users. What now?

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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by TameAntelope on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:17AM (#25730977)
The part this argument is forgetting is what agency a person has over how people use the stuff they've made.

The issue is that if Twitter can't qualify how people use their site, then they're losing agency over a resource they spend a lot of time and effort maintaining. They'd have to operate at a loss for the good of the people who use it.

Should the US government run a public version of Twitter? Maybe the UN, even?

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