if the person is a coastal elitist corporate media journalist or a guerilla independent journalist....the Vox reporter was being harassed with open bigotry hurled his way. It's not "political correctness" to say that shouldn't stand. It's called being a good human being.
You can create "what ifs" for anything. I think YouTube and Google are out of control via censorship and I share your concerns (trust me we have been suppressed worse than most). But that doesn't mean a unilateral FUCK IT let hosts be BIGOTS and HARASS individuals. I think folks
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like you are so focused on the indiscriminate censorship (bad, we should fight it) that you're losing sight that the open bigotry and harrassment is not really debatable. When a host is calling individuals "fags" or "queers" or other slurs....it's not really a grey area. That IS
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offensive and hate-speech. There is NO blanket first amendment right to PROFIT off of hate-speech. Their is a right to SAY hateful and bigoted things---but nowhere are you guaranteed to profit. If I go live today and start calling black people the N-word or Latinos slurs or
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