The people at @YouTube @TeamYouTube made the right call in banning white supremacist James Allsup. Allsup attended the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally where a white supremacist murdered a woman and wounded dozens of others.https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-ejects-charlottesville-hate-marcher-james-allsup-after-daily-beast-expose …
They're not guaranteed a right to a social media platform! Again, this is not a First Amendment right! And platforms like YouTube are built to radicalize so we ought to be making their content harder to access:https://datasociety.net/output/alternative-influence/ …
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Again, it’s about the perception of those censored. If they believe their rights are being infringed, they may radicalize and drag others who may have been fans down with them.
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Maybe but I don't see evidence for that. People are radicalizing and murdering people and there's still white nationalist propaganda on YouTube and Twitter.
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See this is where I disagree. If these companies want to be treated like a platform then they need to uphold the first amendment. If they don’t, and want to be held to the standards of a publisher, they need to be regulated as such.
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act:https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/230 …
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