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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by SergeAx on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:37PM (#28698780)
I am 46 and I was born and living all my life in Soviet Union and now Russia. So you don't tell me what a significant free speech suppression feels like)

YouTube is not a megafone. TV and newspapers is. YouTube is just a medium. People still have to find those videos, click links, share them and so on. Unless, of course, YouTube algos are putting them on the front page because they are generating more ads profit.

And you could not stop information from flowing around in 1980-s (@see "Samizdat") and hundredfold cannot do it today. If you think then closing Parler solved the problem of internal division in USA - no, it just made it worse.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by notacoward on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:29PM (#28709499)
If you've experienced significant free speech suppression, then shouldn't you be better able to tell the difference instead of playing Slippery Slope?
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