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by coldpie 4467 days ago
Er, no. We don't allow the government to censor speech, but Youtube sure as hell can silence me for being a dick.

This is because we give the government an exclusive license on force.

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YouTube sure as hell can't silence you, other than by refusing to host your content on its servers, and federal, state, and local governments can exercise similar control over content hosted on government servers.