I do. A candidate for political office being barred from posting campaign clips to YouTube is a threat to our democracy.

Most average people view YouTube as the defacto video portal of the entire internet.

Once again, a candidate not being able to post to Youtube is not a threat to democracy. Nothing is stopping this candidate from posting this on their campaign site, or an RNC affiliated site or even Facebook where most of their supporters are likely to be.

> Once again, a candidate not being able to post to Youtube is not a threat to democracy.

Yes it is. Youtube is a huge conduit for communication.

Imagine if ABC banned a candidate. The argument that there’s still CBS and NBC are available is not relevant as a major media outlet is favoring a candidate by blocking their opponents.

For small outlets it’s not an issue. But YouTube is the biggest video provider on the planet, not allowing a political candidate would be detrimental to democracy.

Even if that candidate said stupid stuff like “world is flat.” People have to make their decision and as long as we’re a democracy, that choice should be individual.

Don't NBC and ABC and CBS ban lots of candidates?

If you don't have a big enough chance at winning, you don't go to debates

Mind you, news networks recently had a very strong preference towards the incumbent president, aligning their news to match the president's talking points, and having nightly calls to align their messages

They don’t ban candidates from running ads.

They only air debates from candidates that meet some shared threshold.

Once the candidates are locked in, they can’t give preferential air time to one over the other.

Of course they can. Where did you get this idea? Do you think Fox News doesn’t give preferential treatment to certain candidates?

YouTube would be literally interfering with a democratic election. If threat is too strong a word, fine. But you can't deny that they are actively participating in public elections. We want that? We want to privatize democracy? I don't.

Yeah google de-indexing all pages criticizing the democrats and the company is also not threat to democracy. They must provide us with a curated set of sound information vetted by the politicians, FAANG and the state department.

No one is curating anything. If you want your right-wing search engine, then create it. Google is under no obligation to give you top page rank.

Can we at least agree on some basic facts? Google does in fact curate search. Where a page is listed does not depend on how many times the link was clicked. Yes?

>If you want your right-wing search engine, then create it.

And your true intentions come out.

If Google delists AOC from all their properties in the next election and replaces the results with those from her opposition, I'm sure you'll be the first to say it's totally fine and she should just host her own search site if she doesn't like it.