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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by yibg on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:10AM (#28694734)
Why is this standard not applied to anti vax content? You find YouTube’s actions distasteful and you want them to stop. YouTube finds anti vax content distasteful and wants that to stop. YouTube either has the right to stop this type of content on their platform or they don’t.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by roenxi on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:50PM (#28700452)
Note that Google has billions of dollars and control of a huge amount of the world's data. Then note the reason the low standard is applied to anti-vax content is because they are about as close to being politically irrelevant as one can be.

They're struggling to even exercise basic human rights (freedom of movement, opinion, peaceful association, speech, etc, etc. There is probably a right for healthcare self-determination slipped in to the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights too it seems like the sort of thing they'd slip in). There is room to argue about whether the UDoHR applies here, but it is very notable that the anti-vaxers have nearly no power to have a quite reasonable interpretation stick.

Their opinions just don't matter. They appear to be on the verge of being confined to their homes while being widely condemned and socially ostracised. They are likely to be fired. Which is why it is so concerning that systematic oppression is being bought in to deal with them - this is Google crossing scary lines that didn't need to be crossed.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by mike741 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:33AM (#28703217)
what standard? the differences between finding content distasteful and completely deleting said content are self-evident.