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Re:YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch by smt88 on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:46PM (#27669808)
What mega-corporatio is telling you what's OK to see and hear?

There are billions of videos hosted outside of YouTube. YouTube is not trying to get them taken down.

Why don't you complain when your favorite news channel fails to include a Communist guest pundit? Because it's their medium and they have editorial control.

Re:YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch by pstuart on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:24PM (#27670091)
I am not a communist but I think we could use more Communist guest pundits.
Re:YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch by smt88 on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:54PM (#27671575)
Fine. But no private org should be forced to broadcast ideologies they find morally repugnant unless they're using a finite public resource (like the radio spectrum that network news channels use).
Re:YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch by pstuart on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:18AM (#27671710)
Yeah definitely.

I do believe in "the marketplace of ideas", even for ideas I don't hold (how else is one to rethink things?) But without agreed upon facts and, dare I say it, truths, such a marketplace can't really operate. We unfortunately are living in such times.