But is free speech dependent on YouTube being a platform for complex discussions between knowledgeable people on a topic? Maybe YouTube doesn’t want that role.

But is free speech dependent on YouTube being a platform for complex discussions between knowledgeable people on a topic? Maybe YouTube doesn’t want that role. Maybe we can have a sci-debate website that does want these discussions, and maybe that site could tailor the feature set for exactly this purpose. Maybe it would focus on citation and annotation features like thinkspot or Spotify or genius. Maybe the site could have multiple ways to evaluate the reputation of someone making claims. Maybe it could have education, popularity, endorsements from other people with high reputation, and like three other dimensions of reputation measurements. Maybe it could have tools to disclose conflicts of interest, the accuracy of past claims over time, and automatic linking to rebuttals. Maybe YouTube just isn’t a fit for this information.