Re:YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino
by mrintellectual on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:21PM
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Actions like this do nothing to repair the growing rift between conservative and liberal groups.
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Re:YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino
by RealityWinner on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:27PM
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Actions like what? Receiving a temporary ban for spreading harmful misinformation and then receiving a permanent ban after evading that ban.
> YouTube suspended one of Bongino's YouTube channels on Jan. 20 after he posted a video where he questioned the effectiveness of using masks against the coronavirus, a violation of the company's pandemic-related misinformation policy. His later attempt to circumvent that one-week suspension by posting from another channel triggered a permanent ban, YouTube said.
Re:YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino
by ahthat on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:35PM
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The problem is that the mouthpiece is assuming a monopoly over truth. It is utterly arrogant for any entity to do so. Let the talking heads debate, and the minds of men and women in the world decide. If we abandon faith in each other to discern for each his or her own self what truth is to be, we run the risk of traveling down the path whereon Free Thought and discourse is no longer celebrated but discouraged by ever-present and ever-domineering structures of power, damning future generations to totalitarianism.
Re:YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino
by RealityWinner on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:22PM
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You are free to question the initial suspension but the permanent is the topic of discussion here as the result of the ban evasion. Violating Terms of Service is not a partisan issue. Might I direct you to the Paradox of Tolerance[1] in the meantime.