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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by bko on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:02PM (#30563754)
Heres an example: Bari Weiss was fired for commissioning an op-ed by a US Senator Tom Cotton calling for the national guard to be called in to break up riots. Note that she did not write the essay, but merely commissioned it. They sometimes have op-eds from varying voices. NY Times apologized and said "This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards"

Pretty extreme view sending in the national guard, right? Except according to a poll around that time, 52% of Americans answered yes to "Do you approve or disapprove of sending in the U.S. military where there are violent protests?" So obviously that op-ed wasn't a fringe belief, but it was enough to end the career of the person responsible to bring it to print, in addition to apologies and a commitment to never do anything like that again.

Being critical of sometimes violent disruptive protests is a view that has been highly suppressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss#2017%E2%80%932020:_...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/52-americans-support-deployi...

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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by kasey_junk on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:08PM (#30563800)
Are you arguing that Bari Weiss, who was brought in specifically as part of an editorial decision to appeal to alternate viewpoints, is an example of alternate viewpoints being censored?
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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by bko on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:17PM (#30563860)
Yes. She was forced out for doing her job. They don't want alternative view points. That's the point
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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:43PM (#30564026)
She resigned, she was not fired.

By all means argue that they made her feel that it was not possible or sensible to try to do the job she wanted to do. But she resigned, and that's not the same thing.

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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by kasey_junk on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:19PM (#30563876)
But didn’t the job start as a specific alternative viewpoint subsidy?

Getting to zero after boosting doesn’t seem like censorship.

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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by magicalist on Friday March 04, 2022 @11:11PM (#30564172)
Also the New York Times is not a monopoly.
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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by googlerx on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:16PM (#30563852)
"Since March 1, 2021, she has worked as a regular columnist for German daily newspaper Die Welt." (Wikipedia)

Her career is alive and well.

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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by tptacek on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:24AM (#30578130)
She's a popular Substacker and left the NYT in a wave of journalists starting lucrative Substacks. I'm sure the NYT Slack was quite inhospitable to her (she's a troll, and they're snowflakey), but she wasn't forced out of the NYT; she was lured out. Either way: good riddance. Just because a bunch of irritating snowflakes got what they wanted doesn't, by itself, make an outcome bad.
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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by DoctorOW on Friday March 04, 2022 @10:22PM (#30563898)
How is the view simultaneously eliminated and held by the majority of Americans?
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