My preference is to leave all content up, but perhaps provide filters to users so they can choose to look at a bubble if they like. Or have an open standard for video data, on which anybody could build a UI layer.
Just saying, there's a clear double standard here. Saying the election was stolen due to collusion with Russians seems to be along awfully similar lines.
I'm happy to allow companies to do whatever they like, but the data needs to be decoupled from the UI then. Otherwise it's a natural monopoly.
I think history will see it that way, though it may take another decade or two.
This is simply untrue: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intell...
Even a Republican-backed investigation found many links between Trump campaign advisors and Kremlin officials.
Just because Trump says he was "totally exonerated" for the soundbite doesn't mean anything.
Also, you can tie most government officials to Russia in some capacity. Everybody in politics is well connected.
It was a widely spread conspiracy theory with 0 evidence given a veil of credibility because many talking heads brought it up as if there were something tangible backing it.
Just because many people talked about and bought into it doesn't invalidate that it was a conspiracy theory
Nobody is claiming Trump is a genius. The Russian ties are all out there in the open. The only open question was whether they rise to a criminal level. Trump apparently thought they did when he panicked and fired James Comey to halt an investigation. I don’t think the connections were necessarily criminal, just un-American (that of cozying up to corrupt dictators while denigrating allies).
If you'll recall there was a multi year period of mass belief that the president colluded with Russians to steal the election. On the back of very little evidence, other than news heads talking about it and "he said, she said"
There was also a multi year investigation that found nothing, and actually was able to largely disprove documents that helped to kick off the speculation.
I believe we should mass purge all these videos proposing that the ex president colluded with Russians. We don't want the public to be misinformed.
Consider which regimes throughout history have used silencing political opposition the most, and whether you want to be aligned with them.
I certainly don't.