RE: Too PC for me.
December 20, 2021 at 6:14 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2021 at 6:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not arbitrary. It's money. Youtube tries to do whatever is in their financial interest. You don't get deplatformed for hate speech, for example..but for being bad at hate speech. Disinformation? Also not a thing they ban - the entire market of quack daytime tv cures and creams and ointments and self help books are too profitable. Encouraging violence is, to them, creating liability....not that they give a shit about the people targeted, their liability. We start out wrongfooted when we imply or even suggest that a for profit content host is interested or organized around the health of our society and must/should follow some kind of fairness or accuracy doctrine. They'll sell you that too, if you're buying..but that's all they'll be doing.
-as is their constitutionally garuanteed right, no less. It's owners can do whatever the fuck they want with it. The frozen peachists who treat it like it's a public utility are, themselves, against free speech and private property. You know....rights abrogators..... The sad story of hate speech online in the us at present doesn't actually begin with an account from the klan and an arbitrary relaxing of rules - it was a profit bubble for gaming, atheist, and skeptic channels. They out hate speeched each other in a race to the bottom that made everyone involved lots of money...until the bubble burst, at which point everyone(youtube included) pretended they never had anything to do with it and didn't want to be associated with it. At every point along the way, every actor involved swore that they merely wanted to be fair to both sides™ of a view. The view of their wallets, sure - but nothing else.
-as is their constitutionally garuanteed right, no less. It's owners can do whatever the fuck they want with it. The frozen peachists who treat it like it's a public utility are, themselves, against free speech and private property. You know....rights abrogators..... The sad story of hate speech online in the us at present doesn't actually begin with an account from the klan and an arbitrary relaxing of rules - it was a profit bubble for gaming, atheist, and skeptic channels. They out hate speeched each other in a race to the bottom that made everyone involved lots of money...until the bubble burst, at which point everyone(youtube included) pretended they never had anything to do with it and didn't want to be associated with it. At every point along the way, every actor involved swore that they merely wanted to be fair to both sides™ of a view. The view of their wallets, sure - but nothing else.
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