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> As a private company, YouTube has the right, of course, to platform and deplatform anyone it wishes. He's still there. All his stuff is still there. All his
by mrkeen 3y ago
> As a private company, YouTube has the right, of course, to platform and deplatform anyone it wishes.
He's still there. All his stuff is still there. All his content is still searchable. It's free from any kind of trigger warnings, fact checking, or scale-tipping.
The free market has simply decided that, while it's worth paying money to an ignorant attention-whore to be wrong about vaccines, it doesn't make fiscal sense to pay an alleged rapist to do so.
- throwaway5959 3y ago“Won’t someone think of the rapists?!” is basically what these people are saying. It’s insane.
- Canada 3y agoI think it's just a financial decision. If enough people were highly offended by the purveyors of kitten videos that ad buyers wouldn't want to be associated with that they'd demonitize all of those too. Kitten lovers will watch other videos anyway. Of nobody if cared at all about the content of whatever video they sold an ad over I'm sure YouTube would love it. One less hassle for them. But that just ain't so. They could introduce some system to deal with it in a more granular way, but I doubt enough advertisers would want that as opting in would make them appear to take a side. Way better for business to to just keep things non controversial and be done with it.