Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube

Re:Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube by throwoutway on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:05AM (#30640770)

Is it pro-Russian? I haven’t watched it.. and now I can’t watch it. I just have to take YouTube’s word for it that I’m not old enough to watch and never will be.

Disregarding this video however, I guess “private company sponsored censorship” is the vogue for capitalist governments

While “state sponsored censorship” is vogue for authoritarian governments

One is outsourced, but the result is much the same. I’m sad that people on HN are constantly cheering one form of censorship when they should recognize the third order effects

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Re:Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube by aww_dang on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:23AM (#30640989)

In many cases the censorship is at the behest of the state institutions. Of course, there isn't a requirement for it to be disclosed as such.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...

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Re:Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube by Mountain_Skies on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:22PM (#30646764)

A lot of HN dreams of getting to be the censor and given the makeup of the audience here, many will, if they aren't already. What I don't understand is the arrogance in believing the choices of what to censor will always be their choice or inline with what their ideology drives them to censor. Power has a way of shifting quickly and dramatically. Those helping to lace up the boots on someone else's neck often find that same boot on their neck not long after.

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