With that said, YouTube's INSANE overreaction to this and the punishing of innocent channels is unacceptable. But those are two different things and are not mutually exclusive. I worked w/ Michael and believe he's a good guy. But he's just tone-deaf and wrong on this.
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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mentally challenged individuals slurs...I WOULD EXPECT TO BE DEMONITIZED because I'm on a private platform and that would be hateful speech by me. I don't see why you don't understand that.
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