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I would say that this is the only use for this particular feature, because actual calls to violence and extremist messages are already against the rules on yout
by yalue 9y ago
I would say that this is the only use for this particular feature, because actual calls to violence and extremist messages are already against the rules on youtube and can simply be reported by users.
Like you, I also find the Alex Jones and his ilk to be disturbing and harmful, and consider it a bad sign that people like you and me need to qualify any statement against censorship by explicitly saying we aren't part of the American far right.
- gasof 9y agoIs Alex Jones actually far right, or is that just how the media labels everyone who holds non-PC? I checked his Wikipedia page, for the "alt right" claim they have two sources, a New York Times article that quotes the SPLC describing the term "globalism" as a "far right dogwhistle"; this feels disingenuous to me, like they are blackballing everyone who doesn't agree to their particular politics. I'm very put off by how the article calls everyone who is against globalism (which seems to mostly mean "some parts of neoliberalism"?) racist and anti-semetic. I'm also annoyed that the "source" is the NYT, and the proof is just the NYT just calling him "far-right" once (there's no explanation of why he would be this). The second source, a different NYT article offered little more substance on why this would be the case. Perhaps because he is strongly against the Clinton's? I haven't ever got the impression he's far right (and especially not the anti-semitic/racist connotation), he just seems to be an odd crossing between a conservative, conspiracy theorist, a researcher and a used car salesman.