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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by Spivak on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:38AM (#28695165)
Okay so you have your wish, there are 10 major video sites in the US who all have 5-20% market share. The forces that push one service moderate content will push the others.

Like there are a lot of social networks, have you noticed that every single one is monitoring for COVID related content and adding a banner?

tldr: competition can't solve political issues because there's a monopoly on government

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by musingsole on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:59AM (#28695496)
There is government pressure (more correctly just social pressure) but the government hasn't given a mandate that these platforms must take this censorship stance.

And even then, this is only an issue because everyone is on just a handful of platforms -- so the companies build one-size-fits-all policies. But we're not all the same size.

I'm not terrified of my community encountering misinformation. I'm far more terrified of a community being unable to articulate and defend why the information is "mis".

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by tastyfreeze on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:18PM (#28697736)
"We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook..."

- Jen Psaki 7/15/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0aWGsxyYPg

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by distribot on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:35PM (#28698751)
The US government can't mandate that censorship tact, right? Sounds like a first amendment violation?
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by Grustaf on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:01PM (#28700559)
The US government is quite happy to start wars all across the world, obviously they are not above leaning on the media to get their point across.
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