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I don’t particularly care what their reasoning is. A private corporation censoring elected officials should not be acceptable or encouraged. It is extremely ant
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
I don’t particularly care what their reasoning is. A private corporation censoring elected officials should not be acceptable or encouraged. It is extremely anti-democratic and for them to quibble over a highly specific issue like this just shows YouTube’s bias.
- Fnoord 6y agoOnly a government can censor. A company is free to host whatever they like. You can host it elsewhere if you want. Sometimes elected officials say incredibly dangerous stuff. You remember Trump in start of COVID-19 crisis?
- readflaggedcomm 6y agoThat is not consistent with definitions or popular understandings of the verb "censor".
- Fnoord 6y agoIn US, true. Rest of world it varies.
- cudgy 6y agoBut it’s Google making this determination. A software company that is all-knowing and looking out for your interests. Their filtering process is healthy for society, because society is full of imbeciles that are incapable of processing information properly. Also, it’s a private company so they are allowed to do whatever they want to do so take your complaints to another platform.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoI’d rather trust the imbeciles than a bunch of unelected technocrats in Mountain View.
- cudgy 6y agoFully agree. I was being sarcastic.