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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by josephcsible on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:38AM (#28694229)
How much content needs to be censored before we can talk about censorship without "crying wolf"?
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by chefkoch on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:59AM (#28694547)
How many people have to die because of misinformation before it's OK to take it down?
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:09AM (#28694711)
Big bad "misinformation". The CCP also use that word as an excuse for censorship.

You fight misinformation with more information, not censorship.

> These peasants can't think for themselves, we have to tell them what to think! Especially if they disagree or dissent!

First it was "think of the children!"

Then it was "think of grandma!"

Now it's "think of the gullible!"

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by chefkoch on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:26AM (#28694977)
Ah, so how do you do that, because the current approach does not seem to work.

And when do you as platform owner think enough people died because of the content you host?

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by hunterb123 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:42AM (#28695221)
The current approach is to ban dissent for sanctioned topics (lab leak, hunter's laptop, vaccinations, etc.) and I agree that it's not working, because you get an echo chamber and force critics into the darkness whether they are right or wrong.

The right approach is always more information. People can think for themselves, $5000 of Russian ads didn't do anything more or have any more lies a D or R campaign ad did, so stop pretending it did.

If you want to ban foreign actors, that's fine. Targeting citizens with legit concerns and ideas is wrong and violates their rights, even if you launder your tyranny through private companies.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by chefkoch on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:07PM (#28695647)
> The current approach is to ban dissent for sanctioned topics

This is a fairly new approach.

>The right approach is always more information. People can think for themselves,

This has been tried for many years, i don't know how old you are but the Jenny McCarthy authism stuff is still around.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by mdp2021 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:30PM (#28696025)
If "misinformation" were easily discriminated, there would be no need to wait for consequences to properly label it.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by datavirtue on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:11PM (#28695712)
Give me liberty or give me death. Very simple.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by psyc on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:28PM (#28696993)
Much too simple for people so conditioned to crafting rule sets to solve problems.