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Makes total sense. The black and white thing always seemed so weird. It's a false dichotomy. Even if censorship is good in the particular context (which seems

Makes total sense. The black and white thing always seemed so weird. It's a false dichotomy. Even if censorship is good in the particular context (which seems to be the case here), but bad in general and bad in principle, it seems that the real issue is that there should be one unaccountable entity who gets to make that decision. Why is Youtube big enough to have such an impact without being accountable in any way to the public?

aantthony 6y ago
It's not just Youtube, it's also Twitter[1] and Facebook[2]. When they all act in concert with each other, it's much harder to hold them accountable. I think censorship can be dangerous in this context so I'm working on a decentralised fact-checker. I think it could be a more constructive solution to fake news that isn't subject to these problems: https://blog.verifact.io/2020/04/20/A-decentralised-fact-checker/ https://blog.verifact.io/2020/04/20/A-decentralised-fact-che... [1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/covid-19.html#definition https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/covid-19.... [2] https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/facebook-fact-checkers-foul-again-after-censoring-post-story/ https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/facebook-fact-checkers-foul-ag...