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I’m curious if they’re also banning tankies, 9/11 truthers, and violent antifa activists.

• gamblor956 7y ago
  Yes. First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate segregation or exclusion based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status. In addition to those categories, YouTube is adding caste, which has significant implications in India, and “well-documented violent events,” such as the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting and 9/11. Users are no longer allowed to post videos saying those events did not happen, YouTube said.
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• ZeroGravitas 7y ago
  Is the implication of your question that Nazis, Sandy Hook Truthers and Holocaust Deniers are right-wing and so they need to be even handed and ban left-wing groups too?
  • Veen 7y ago
    Not so much that they should be even handed as that they shouldn’t ignore similar bad behaviour just because it does not appear as salient from their perspective.
  • Chazprime 7y ago
    I think the best outcome is for Youtube to ban anyone who promotes or engages in violence or otherwise hateful behavior, regardless of political views. Some of the actions of left-wingers on social media recently have become disturbingly extremist and that too needs to be culled for the safety of everyone using these services. As the reach of social media has extended, the notion of actions on these platforms having no real-world consequences is sadly a thing of the past.