Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
by robbrown451 on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:48PM
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> They are only in this current mess because they voluntarily curate, often aggressively.
Does "make videos with lots of upvotes more visible" count as voluntary curation?
Even in the absence of that, hopefully you can see why they'd want to remove content as described in the points I listed above.
I'm not all the comfortable with all curation/moderation/censoring/etc being based on "government orders." That means that government will get more involved in this process, and corrupt governments will have more ability to control the narrative. Not sure you've thought this through.
It also is a very costly process currently for YouTube and facebook (etc). Do you want taxes to pay for that?
I was thinking more along the lines of removing posts when ordered to by the government they are incorporated under or by one in whose country to they do business. And if someone finds child porn or something on their servers, point them at the user that posted it. Which might work if they didn't mess with user's posts unless they absolutely had to.
They are only in this current mess because they voluntarily curate, often aggressively.