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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by mach1ne on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:41AM (#28693491)
When a private company with a market share of information as large as Youtube acts as an arbitrer of truth, regulation to prevent this would be nice, yes.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by IgorPartola on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:46AM (#28693571)
So you trust the government to decide what is true and what isn’t but not YouTube?
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by eric_cc on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:00PM (#28701586)
Or we can move beyond the concept of trust. How about not banning content you don't like?
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by IgorPartola on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:40PM (#28702279)
Huh? That makes no sense.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by eric_cc on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:43PM (#28702601)
There is no need for trusting anybody. The concept that we must trust the government or YouTube to determine truth is ridiculous. How about neither of them ban content they don’t like?

As individuals, we shouldn’t trust. We should verify.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by IgorPartola on Thursday September 30, 2021 @09:04AM (#28705803)
OK great. So do you have a chemistry lab in your house to verify that the toothpaste you buy doesn’t contain heavy metals? Do you do your own testing of the meat you buy to ensure it doesn’t contain BGH, antibiotics, parasites? Do you manufacture your own water testing kits since you can’t trust sending samples to a lab? Do you manufacture your own computing devices since you can’t trust that others aren’t spying on you using your phone or laptop?

This is the kind of answer a 14 year old who hasn’t yet grasped the concept of not-absolutism would give. It’s absurd.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by etchalon on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:10AM (#28694721)
I am now incredibly interested in what the term “market share of information” is, because that’s a brand new nonsense term I’m sure will spread like wildfire.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by nova22033 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:47PM (#28699710)
Should fox news be required to give equal time to liberal opinion hosts? It's the biggest cable news outlet.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by ip26 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:29PM (#28702214)
Not to mention they have a near total monopoly on conservative viewership! How else can a liberal operator reach those people?
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by maccolgan on Thursday September 30, 2021 @10:51AM (#28706997)
Wasn't the fairness doctrine made to enable that?
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by zepto on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:05AM (#28694653)
Except they aren’t acting as an arbiter of truth. They are just regulating their own platform. It’s not a secret that they are doing this.