Yes, they are wrong and they will cause deaths if they are allowed to peddle more unsubstantiated bullshit. This is not a philosophical debate, people are literally dying.
Yet what they call 'authoritative news sources' like nbc, cnn, fox, etc are the biggest peddlers of bs of all, and they get front page all across the platform.
Specifically with this subject we had a solid month of all of those "sources" denying there was a problem that might require individual action, even going so far as to refute common sense best practices like wearing face masks. Their only source of credibility is not breaking rank.
No, public discourse in a technical matter is out of the question. Equating the opinion of 2 random doctors to the thousands of epidemiologists worldwide is not helping democracy in any shape or form. It actually destroys it.
We need to stop this insanity. Ignorant people's opinion is not worth the opinion of an expert.
I don't even know what "equating opinions" is supposed to mean in that context? We're talking about removing videos.
It's not about equating anything, but allowing people to express themselves.
> Ignorant people's opinion is not worth the opinion of an expert.
That's a very reasonable opinion to have but it's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about whether we should let Google make the decision on an opinions worth by removing videos.
Real discourse does not come with a bouncer, and even if we would try to dream up one that wouldn't outright delegitimize the discourse it certainly wouldn't be a US American for-profit without recourse or checks and balances.
I think it's popular to argue that it's the free press that serves the role of an evaluating institution. ..but here again: not a singular tech monopoly and not by removing those opinions, which just makes every evaluation questionable by default.
People are literally dying all the time, and still, every single day, twice as many people are born as have died from COVID-19 over its entire course, worldwide.