Deep dive by @nfergus on network platforms. This got my attention: "In December 2017 Google announced its intention to increase to 10,000 the number of employees tasked with removing extremist content from YouTube" Explains a lot of recent deplatforminghttps://www.hoover.org/research/what-be-done-safeguarding-democratic-governance-age-network-platforms …
I had a Youtube account for years and years. I never got any strikes or warnings and I hardly ever made comments on political topics. And a while back there was a hot political topic in the news and under videos of it being discussed. I made comments in support of the
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conservative position, etc. And within probably 12 hours of leaving those comments, I got a message from Youtube that I was permanently banned for violating their "rules". I asked for an example of what they were banning me over, but they never would provide anything.
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I can't even buy a Youtube subscription. So, I don't see how Youtube plans to make money if they are permanently banning customers who don't support liberal positions that then bans them from ever getting a Youtube subscription.
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