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> Businesses that hold a massive and unfair effective monopoly on communication and information are different from unremarkable coffee shops. Youtube does not

> Businesses that hold a massive and unfair effective monopoly on communication and information are different from unremarkable coffee shops. Youtube does not hold monopoly on communication or information. > it's an action that you want to force on them by some mechanism of public rage Lol. :) Public rage you say? Where is the rage? :) > I don't get the obsession with removing dumb online stunts. Let me help you with that: This stunt was done in order to get attention. You fuel it with attention and there will be more stunts. Either from this dude or others. You remove the attention and it dies out on its own. I believe, and many others seems to agree this stunt was potentially dangerous and we should have less of these in the future. Removing the video is the way to achieve that, keeping the video up is youtube profiting from a potentially dangerous stunt. > Appealing to protected groups is the weakest argument you could ever make for "Businesses can censor whoever they like". Because it is not an argument for that.

Banana699 5y ago
>Youtube does not hold monopoly on communication or information. What, pray tell, is that other service that has several hundred million of viewers and thousands of hours of video being uploaded every hour? As soon as you tell me it's name, I'm going to concede that YouTube is not a monopoly. >Where is the rage? Are you implying you just call for censorship as a hobby without even feeling angry? that's even worse. >You remove the attention and it dies out on its own This is demonstrably false, the guy who made the video didn't have a trend to draw inspiration from, he thought up of a dumb idea completely on his own. Even IF (a very big if) your model of how social imitation works is reasonably accurate and taking down the video really prevents any further stunts of those type, other influencers will simply think up of new dumb stunts like this. Let me stress, again, that the world is not a kindergarten and you are not it's caretaker. If people want to crash aircrafts to get internet points, that's completely an issue between them and the relevant authorities, those bureaucrats suck up an awful lot of tax money, let them work for it for once. You don't get to decide for the hundreds of millions who watch YouTube what's acceptable and what's not. I and countless other people fund this shitty public record with the attention we give to countless 20-second ads, and I want every recorded moment to stay recorded, at least until they go out of business. You don't have the right to force me to respect what offends or worries you, don't worry about public safety, let everyone worry about their own.

Banana699 5y ago

>Youtube does not hold monopoly on communication or information. What, pray tell, is that other service that has several hundred million of viewers and thousands of hours of video being uploaded every hour? As soon as you tell me it's name, I'm going to concede that YouTube is not a monopoly. >Where is the rage? Are you implying you just call for censorship as a hobby without even feeling angry? that's even worse. >You remove the attention and it dies out on its own This is demonstrably false, the guy who made the video didn't have a trend to draw inspiration from, he thought up of a dumb idea completely on his own. Even IF (a very big if) your model of how social imitation works is reasonably accurate and taking down the video really prevents any further stunts of those type, other influencers will simply think up of new dumb stunts like this. Let me stress, again, that the world is not a kindergarten and you are not it's caretaker. If people want to crash aircrafts to get internet points, that's completely an issue between them and the relevant authorities, those bureaucrats suck up an awful lot of tax money, let them work for it for once. You don't get to decide for the hundreds of millions who watch YouTube what's acceptable and what's not. I and countless other people fund this shitty public record with the attention we give to countless 20-second ads, and I want every recorded moment to stay recorded, at least until they go out of business. You don't have the right to force me to respect what offends or worries you, don't worry about public safety, let everyone worry about their own.