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The point is that even if Youtube literally censored everything overnight, we wouldn't end up living in hell, we'd be living in the year 2000.

• cambalache 6y ago
  You cant have it both ways. Either youtube is relevant and important in the public discourse and you agree with them there is a risk that vast portions of the population will be misled by those videos , or Youtube is an incosequential player so it does not matter what publishes. If you agree with the second point you should not care what it is published there, the same reason you dont care about the contents of the "monthly bulletin of the crypto-anarchist Fidjian association"
  • knzhou 6y ago
    But I do have it both ways. Youtube is a large provider, which is why I'm glad it's kicking off bullshit. But it's far from the only provider: without Youtube you still have print, radio, TV, going outside with a megaphone, going door to door with pamphlets, and the entire rest of the internet.
    • cambalache 6y ago
      So you are OK if tomorrow Youtube, Twitter and Facebook decide tomorrow to erase any mention of Snowden,Chomsky and Assange because it is "bullshit". Because if so, that would be a nasty world. I do not want to live in that world. Give me Icke on Youtube any time of the day. I wont watch it and I wont be arrogant enough to believe it will "wash the brains" of other adults.