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So everybody is cool with youtube removing videos and banning channels of RT, Sputnik and pro-Russia accounts; but Zoom doing just the same for the very same re

• hughw 6y ago
  Don't you see the difference between state-sponsored outlets like RT and the individual activists Zoom banned?
  • YarickR2 6y ago
    What sponsorship has to do with any of this ? Do you know who's sponsoring this specific Chinese activist ? Any other banned channels and persons ?
  • catalogia 6y ago
    If it happened to be the case that the ROC was sponsoring this activist, that would not change how I feel about it.
• YuriNiyazov 6y ago
  Yea. "Youtube is a son of a b, but he's our son of a b"
• einpoklum 6y ago
  The thing is, it's much simpler for you and the person your talking to to switch from Zoom to SomeOtherApp. But with Youtube - you can take your own videos off of it, but you can't take the ones you want to watch off.
• kelnos 6y ago
  Ultimately it boils down to a value judgment. RT and Sputnik spread misinformation and have coordinated efforts to influence another country's elections. The activist in question was providing a forum for people affected by the Tiananmen massacre to memorialize their loved ones and ensure people remember what happened. I'm fine with the first ban, but not the second, and I don't think it's at all weird or hypocritical to hold that position. "Spreading lies with the goal of sowing geopolitical discord" is not the same as "memorializing a historical event that China would rather sweep under the rug". (And before you say "but the US influences elections all the time", yes, I agree that the US does do that, and I wish it wouldn't, but that's not material to this particular discussion.)