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"I'm okay with youtube censoring memes that make fun of the president"

• brewdad 5y ago
  Youtube could pivot to nothing but cat videos tomorrow and they would be perfectly in the right to do so.
  • NullPrefix 5y ago
    And that would be perfectly fine, but only if Youtube's CEO stops giving speeches about free speech being a core value https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683575
    • op00to 5y ago
      Wow, I didn’t know you were the arbiter of whether it’s acceptable or not for YouTube to do something. Very impressive.
    • undersuit 5y ago
      Oh so we need to suppress the free speech of someone else to protect you?
  • roenxi 5y ago
    There are many extraordinarily biased US media companies out there. In theory, YouTube can become one more. And that is fine. But these companies are a lot less respectable than YouTube has been to date, and people know what they are getting. The issue here is YouTube's standards are changing and that deserves to be discussed. And condemned, it is change for the worse (even if in some sense it is probably inevitable).
  • ByteJockey 5y ago
    It's absolutely in their rights. It's also within people's rights to criticize them for it.
  • OrvalWintermute 5y ago
    I don't think that is correct. They have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders.
• undersuit 5y ago
  I am.