censorship ratcheting up on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePsGivjZpg

>>3
you just don't get it, man
it's about more than that

>>3
You're right. Youtube has absolutely zero legal obligations to host any content what so ever. But any business with that much power to influence public opinion by extinguishing certain content has a moral obligation to not perform censorship.

It's like you're saying that Facebook has no social impact when they censor pro-republican news. Or when Twitter shadowbanned that reporter on drone killings.^[1]

This kind of censorship, although legal, certainly has a social impact. Word of the original news still gets out, but the exposure the public gets to whatever was censored in the first place is still diminished and now "Youtube censoring" is the news instead of -- well, whatever this guy was gonna say.

Censorship like this is certainly a handy tool for powerful groups to control what media we're not exposed to.

[1]: https://cryptome.org/2015/10/AdventuresinCensorship.pdf

>>9
I see so many people being fucking hypocrites and lobbying for the censorship of their political opponents. Yet they're getting sooooooo fucking outraged when some other group is lobbying for them to get shut down.

Where the fuck are the reasonable people that are opposed to this shit? When the fuck did we replace "I may disagree with you, but don't want censorship of any kind" with this "that'll show those fucking _____" behavior?

I don't know what was shown in that podcast nor can I find out because all material is deleted. Maybe they showed kiddie porn, I don't fucking know. But the occurrence of this hypocrisy still remains.

Freedom of assembly of the non-x86 kind is a basic human right. So why deny your opponents that? Even on the internet? Does that not go counter to your political ideology? Or is censorship okay as long as it's some group you oppose? Or maybe because your investors or advertisers buying ad-space on your site might not like it and you might lose out a little?

Have a little fucking backbone for once. It's time for non-censorable systems to be created.