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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by dgellow on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:01AM (#30564762)
Honestly, we are so far into what was considered dystopian in the past century, I don’t know if that even make sense to still use that type of categorization.

But to actually answer your comment:

1. A company removing proven disinformation is quite far from what censorship is. Also not really something that would be considered dystopian.

2. I would disagree that Orwell work is about “censorship is bad”. His work is IMHO more about exploring risks caused by attempt to do population surveillance and control. Spreading lies and falsehood consistently to destroy any understanding of an actual situation, the way Trump does by lying about election fraud, is way closer to the Orwellian nightmare than YouTube removing that content.

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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by daenz on Saturday March 05, 2022 @09:48AM (#30568012)
2. It's more extreme than that though. YouTube banned a reputable news source for reporting on a story in which Trump tangentially mentioned election fraud. That's pretty Orwellian imo.
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Re:YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denyi... by dgellow on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:20PM (#30570235)
It's not banned. If you read the source you will see their channel is suspended, meaning it cannot upload for a few days.

From the article: > The Hill’s channel is unable to upload new videos for seven days, although its older videos can still be accessed.

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