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A standard, uniformly applied, is more likely to be removed (when its seen to be bad) than one inconsistently applied on the basis of ideology or public outcry.
by avsteele 5y ago
A standard, uniformly applied, is more likely to be removed (when its seen to be bad) than one inconsistently applied on the basis of ideology or public outcry.
- leppr 5y agoAnd this is why public protests are good for governments. They channel a lot of energy into a few precise issues, away from broad structural changes.
- 6f8986c3 5y agoWhen Democrats riot, it's a "peaceful protest". When anybody else protests, it's a "riot", or "insurrection" or "white supremacist rally". You'd have to be outright retarded to "protest" at this point.
- Ar-Curunir 5y agoGet your fascist crybaby self out of here.
- dang 5y agoFlamewar comments will get you banned here. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoFlamewar comments will get you banned here. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- naturalauction 5y agoAre you sure? Like the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer were about broad structural issues in policing. Unless you meant even bigger structural issues such as systemic racism which they were only tangentially about but definitely increased the awareness of.
- kaliali 5y agoThe black lives matter protests were nothing but a bunch of thugs destroying their community. There's a difference between a nonviolent protest and one where you burn down/loot your neighbors place and blame it on police brutality.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 5y agoSo that's why Russia or Myanmar shoot or arrest protesters. Tiananmen Square was also just the government's attempt to help the protester's cause?
- xkjkls 5y agoIs it possible to have a uniformly applied standard for content as diverse as YouTube's? We can't even find a consistent standard to identify pornography, much less all of the other content YouTube wants off its platform