Re:Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown...
by orangecat on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:56PM
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It’s a very weird way of thinking that it’s political only if the video is removed, but not if it is kept online.
Because keeping it up is the default, while you have to go out of your way to remove it.
If I own a store, is it as much of a political act to allow Trump supporters to shop there as it is to ban them?
A lot of the replies to your comment fixate on this, since they take issue with “everything is political”. But I think it’s very true, and agree with you.
Why should YouTube host anything and everything that random anonymous users decide to upload? Why is this /holy/ act of uploading deemed undoable and unrevocable?
It’s a very weird way of thinking that it’s political only if the video is removed, but not if it is kept online.