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by guscost 2216 days ago
It would be censorship only with the consent of the governed, as it should be.

Also folks, keep in mind that I am absolutely not saying that the government should regulate every video on YouTube, I am only saying that YouTube should lose its special privileges if it wants to play that game itself. It is a critically-important distinction that I feel is being missed here.

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And if the government decides Youtube has to censor anti CCP comments, you'd be fine with that?
No, I would vote those morons out of office. As it stands I don't have nearly enough money to vote the Alphabet CEO out of office.
You probably don't have enough money to vote a government out of office, either.
Unfortunately I don't, but I hope you understand the meaning behind this facetiousness.