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"In liberal democracies we value freedom of expression." Try walking into a restaurant and wailing on about Trump. In 'Western Democracies' we also value priv
by jariel 6y ago
"In liberal democracies we value freedom of expression."
Try walking into a restaurant and wailing on about Trump.
In 'Western Democracies' we also value private spaces and the ability for private groups to make their own rules.
Freedom of expression does not apply to YouTube in the 'Liberal Democratic' sense.
1) Private businesses can make rules for the content they want to have up.
2) In public you can do mostly as you please. Nobody can take down your website unless you're doing something specifically illegal.
3) If we want to ban other countries stuff because they are totalitarians, we can do that.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Freedom of expression does not apply to YouTube in the 'Liberal Democratic' sense. It does, just in that YouTube is the possessor of the right, not the restricted governing party.
- jariel 6y agoSo I see what you are saying, however, I don't think that's the case. I don't think YouTube would, for example, cite 'their 1st Amendment Rights' as legitimacy for censoring content on their site.