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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by helsinkiandrew on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:39AM (#31106316)
> This is a dangerous thought. There is already too much decision making of what is allowed on our social platform by the big corps

In this case though the FAA has made the decision, he didn't do something in bad taste - he did something that could have been very dangerous to others, could have started a major fire, and was illegal (or at least broke the FAA rules enough for him to loose his license). And the reason he did that was (almost certainly) to make a YouTube video - I think YouTube would be justified from kicking him off their platform for this.

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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by josephcsible on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:57AM (#31106414)
> he did something that [...] was illegal

But remember that aside from a few narrow exceptions (e.g., CSAM), sharing videos of someone doing something illegal isn't itself illegal.

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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by helsinkiandrew on Thursday April 21, 2022 @03:09AM (#31106745)
No, but in this case it's probably certain that if he wasn't going to make a YouTube video he wouldn't have done the illegal act. It's probably something that most companies and advertisers, wouldn't want to be associated with incase they were seen to be endorsing and encouraging the act.
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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by mnd999 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:31AM (#31106554)
Pretty sure profiting from illegal activity is.
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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by josephcsible on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:38AM (#31106587)
That's a good argument for demonetization, sure, but the person I was replying to was advocating for more than just demonetization.
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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by throwaway290 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:28AM (#31106538)
A privately owned platform can (should?) apply higher standards than 'is it illegal' when moderating UGC.

Since the service is 'free' and no money changes hands it's not as if they have to refund banned user etc.

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