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 …
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Why not shut down his ideas with better ones? Censorship of political opponents is never a good idea. You want radicalization? Because that’s how you get it.
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Actually the opposite is true.
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This actually flies right in the face of the first amendment. When someone feels like their rights are being infringed, you bet they’ll radicalize. When you are guaranteed a right in the Constitution and it is taken away from you, you bet you’ll be rash and act accordingly.
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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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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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But even if they're liable for the speech of others it wouldn't be a First Amendment issue.
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I’m well aware of Section 230. And granting Google and YouTube immunity through it has gotten us here. You with your thoughts that they are built for radicalization, others with their thoughts of thinking they are being censorious.
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Just because it is enshrined in law doesn’t make it morally right or correct, for that matter.
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