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by im3w1l 1987 days ago
Youtube is pushing back against the Republicans. They will keep pushing back against Republicans after Biden's inauguration.
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You are making this into a partisan issue when it's not.

One side is detached from reality and they happen to have the same political allegiance. Doesn't give any more merit to their claims.

Both sides are spreading misinformation, but only one side faces pushback.
Tell me the other side's misinfo.

And the thing is, the reality of the situation is so apparent that I don't even have to specify which side I am talking about!

The big foundational lie is that there are no biological differences. This is demonstrably false, but you will not see it, or any of it's many corollaries censored.
> The big foundational lie is that there are no biological differences. This is demonstrably false, but you will not see it, or any of it's many corollaries censored.

People right of center tend to overestimate how much biological differences matter (versus societal forces), people on the left tend to underestimate it. That's been true for a long time. I don't think either point of view is particularly censored though.

We're talking about censoring outright lies (the kind that the Putin government puts out, say)

I could just as well say "People on the right tend to overestimate how much voting fraud there was and people on the left tend to underestimate it."
If Republicans continue to spread dangerous lies and falsehoods, tantamount to falsely claiming a theater is on fire, YouTube should push back. If Republicans post policy proposals or comments on cultural issues, YouTube shouldn’t. Courts in the real world have already addressed this issue, YouTube is catching up to the extant rules of society, not making new ones.
Courts have addressed the issue indeed. The reason youtube is acting independently is because this is way beyond what courts have decided is dangerous speech.

If this was driven by courts, they would have an order to show it.

This is exactly how I expect it to play out.