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YouTube is just a video advertising platform. Anyone can host a video virtually anywhere on the internet. You don’t have a right to use YouTube. If you want to
by cwhiz 6y ago
YouTube is just a video advertising platform. Anyone can host a video virtually anywhere on the internet. You don’t have a right to use YouTube.
If you want to upload some videos spreading some fake news propaganda there are quite literally thousands of different sites and services to do that.
Google and YouTube have no legal or moral obligation to allow you to use their specific services.
The only grey area here is when there is a true monopoly.
- im3w1l 6y agoI think it's very curious how we see the same people say that Google Must Remove Disinformation, and moments later they say it doesn't matter anyway. Why ask them to remove it then? And besides didn't you (in the plural sense) argue it's up to them as a private company? It's such a mess of contradictions.
- Gatsky 6y ago1. Youtube should remove disinformation, because it is harmful to society and it would be wrong for Youtube and the misinformers to profit from it, a special and unique scenario created by the Youtube platform. It is asking Youtube to exert control over their platform in a way that is likely but not guaranteed, to have net benefit, and not create peverse incentives. 2. Youtube should not remove disinformation because it violates the free speech of the misinformers. Youtube the entity has no rights over the content they deliver, in violation of their own Terms of Use. Any content anyone decides to upload should be allowed, including all the truly horrible stuff they content moderate which you never see. Where is the contradiction?
- cwhiz 6y agoI am actually on record mocking this move by Google. Maybe the consensus on HN is what you say, but this site trends toward groupspeak and mass downvoting for opinions they don’t like. I wouldn’t necessarily take the top comments as the actual consensus.