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So we should keep people safe from any information that might upset them? I don't understand your argument here. An astonishgly miniscule percent of the popula

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• quadrifoliate 6y ago
  > So we should keep people safe from any information that might upset them? There is no "we". The platform is YouTube. It is their prerogative (and indeed their right to freedom of speech) to host content as they see fit. The Senators are merely asking them to exercise their freedom to a very reasonable extent.
• matt_j 6y ago
  An astonishingly large percentage of the population are parroting this and all manner of other misinformation on social media, all day, every day, for months, and it's getting worse as one by one the dominoes fall and yet another impressionable mind is swayed and joins the chorus. I don't think censorship is necessarily the right approach to mitigate this torrent of bullshit, but it's clearly out of control.
• swirepe 6y ago
  >I don't understand your argument here. >Based on your argument I was pointing out how "believing dumb things about politics" is a deliberate minimization of the effect of disinformation. >An astonishgly miniscule percent of the population commit crimes as a result of news stories. But an astonishingly large number of people are afraid of vaccines/black people/corona jihad/the deep state pedophile ring because they read something that isn't true. Can you think of any effects this might have had recently? Any you think of anything bad going on that isn't strictly a crime?