[aestetix]

Would you also argue that TV shows like "The Search for Bigfoot" and whatnot should be banned? I can understand removing something because it contains personal information or something really obscene (like terrorists beheading someone), but videos like this are mostly just entertainment.

[rosndo]

I think “Search for Bigfoot” is obviously different. Nobody is going to hurt themselves or others after watching it.

JCS - Criminal Psychology will create idiots who think they’re master criminal psychologists and get innocent people put in prison.

There’s a simple solution for JCS, just distance from the pseudoscientific “psychology” and stick to the true crime.

[effingwewt]

Quite the slipper slope you got going on there. I fail to see how a youtube video discussing interrogation techniques is going to magically cause people to 'think they're master criminal psychologists and get innocent people put in prison.'

By your reasoning anything discussing anything could be 'harmful'.

How about we decide for ourselves what we want to watch/listen/read.

[rosndo]

>discussing interrogation techniques

Spreading misinformation about interrogation techniques in a sort-of educational format.

> How about we decide for ourselves what we want to watch/listen/read.

We can, of course. I just also happen to believe that youtube should get to decide what they distribute, and this is a fairly reasonable thing to choose not to distribute.

[sennight]

> I just also happen to believe that youtube should get to decide what they distribute...

Sort of like a publisher, right? Well that sounds totally reasonable for a publisher to... oh. Might wanna rethink that one - it would be a shame to lose that sweet sweet platform protection.

[rosndo]

In a hypothetical world where you’re right, why would that not kill sites like HN? And if it would, is that a good outcome?

[effingwewt]

How is a very real situation at all hypothetical? Because it goes against the narrative you're screaming?

Pick one. You are a publisher or a platform. The days of companies having their cake and eating it too need to be over.

Also, HN's an aggregator, at least come with legit comparisons if you want to even try and make a salient point, for once.

And if getting rid of HN meant all of this shit would end, I'd forget it existed. Youtube made itself a lynch-pin of society by begging us to join and host our videos in the beginning, then they got so big they felt they didn't need us, and the censor waves began.

Now they've taken away dislike counts solely to appease companies buying ads on their platform.

I absolutely love how you are all for censorship of videos on YouTube, but you seem to abhor the thought of HN going away.

You are willing to silence people whom you disagree with, but heaven forbid they come for the platform you happen to use :)

[throwaway73838]

What if I deem your comment to be misinformation because it could lead to people developing capitalistic tendencies? Would you have a problem then?

[joshuamorton]

You can deem whatever you want. You don't run HN, so its not really relevant.

[throwaway73838]

But if I did run HN and had you de-platformed - would you be singing the same tune? You cheer for authoritarianism now, but what happens if the narrative shifts against you?

[effingwewt]

You don't run youtube either, so why is what you think relevant?

For all you know it could be C&D letters, not all the vids have been stricken.

You've an obvious axe to grind, which is fine, but does not give you the right to dictate what is and is not misinformation, nor harmful.

[retrac]

> Nobody is going to hurt themselves or others after watching it.

https://www.montanarightnow.com/community/man-says-he-was-sh...

Don't be so sure.

[kolanos]

> JCS - Criminal Psychology will create idiots who think they’re master criminal psychologists and get innocent people put in prison.

This is, at best, hyperbole.

But you know what else creates idiots? The homogenization of information.

[kolanos]

Can you give any specific examples of JCS perpetuating pseudo science?