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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by m-p-3 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:36AM (#28705591)
> Milo Yiannopoulos

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time, so in a way deplatforming worked.

And I believe that it's better than the alternative of letting disinformation run amok in a pandemic.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by deadpannini on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:53AM (#28705720)
I must have been too cryptic.

Is the actual goal of de-platforming individuals to punish or silence specific individuals, or is it to suppress remove certain kinds of speech from public discourse?

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