top | item 20106905

YouTube just banned supremacist content

7 points| uniqueid | 6 years ago |theverge.com | reply

6 comments

order
[+] npcdevops|6 years ago|reply
Who decides what a "extremist" is, and more importantly how will they decide?
[+] canadaghost|6 years ago|reply

[deleted]

[+] olliej|6 years ago|reply
This is basically a “we should tolerate the intolerant” argument.

Why should a platform host content that specifically states that other users should not have rights?

[+] throwaway50003|6 years ago|reply
I don't get how banning racist crap is a stepping stone to banning all speech. I just don't. I mean, it's not like racism is a subtle legal category that people can rule-lawyer you into. It's pretty clear when it happens, and it's bad, so it should be banned. Also, it's not like almost every European country has enacted laws against hate speech, Holocaust denial etc. and turned into a totalitarian hellhole decades after.

Also, Youtube is a private company, yes it's huge but no one is entitled to a huge audience, yadda yadda. The rest of your rant is hard to make sense of.