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>By that logic can they remove videos claiming masks are effective at protecting yourself and society from the virus? Cry wolf when this actually happens. I t
by vharuck 7y ago
>By that logic can they remove videos claiming masks are effective at protecting yourself and society from the virus?
Cry wolf when this actually happens. I try not to be dismissive, but the repeated harping about masks strikes me as a lack of original thought at best and a coordinated smear campaign at face value.
We get it: the WHO should've recommended masks full-throatedly. But your interpretation that a YouTube policy will be applied maliciously without any justification for why doesn't convince me.
- eloff 7y agoI doubt it will be, or least I hope not. But at some point they'll cross the line, they may have already done so and I just don't know about it. I don't like censorship. It's dangerous. It's the tool of choice of authoritarians everywhere. Free speech, even of opinions we find distasteful or downright ugly, is still worth upholding.
- eloff 7y agoI want to add that hate speech is a different thing, but where one draws the line there is also a slippery slope. Look at deplatforming of people like Steven Pinker or Jordan Peterson to see how actually quite moderate, well reasoned, well spoken people are getting censored. That's a disturbing trend.