News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days. Parent comment

Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by omgitsabird on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:28PM (#28149488)
These companies are maintaining systems that are analogous to message boards.

Why not just view this as moderation?

This viewpoint makes it a lot less sinister, in my opinion.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by flyingcircus3 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:56PM (#28149786)
Therein lies the problem though. There seems to be a growing number of people who use sinisterness as a heuristic for the truth. Instead of Occam's Razor, where the simplest explanation is the most likely explanation, it is the most damning answer that is most likely correct.
[ Parent | on HN ]