Misinformation dilemma.

[Ahriman]

It's their company so they can do what they want, but I am not much for censorship of misinformation because it doesn't much work. I see that a lot of youtubers get their videos falsely flagged because of it, or why I don't put my videos on YouTube when I want to share them here portraying people who are lying, so I use Facebook.

The other reason is that there is also accepted misinformation, like religion, so when religious people see that misinformation allowed, they think it is acceptable and not misinforming.

The main reason videos get flagged on Youtube is because Google is too lazy to do the evaluations so they just wrote crappy algorithms which flag all kinds of videos by mistake.  They also flag videos for breaking the rules when they clearly are not, such as using the word "Nazi" in a historical documentary about Nazism and claiming they are promoting hate speech.  It's just lazy, sloppy work and should be highly criticized.  But the fact that it's done poorly shouldn't mean that we don't do it.  Do it better!

Religion is a bastion of misinformation but because of its long history, it's going to get a pass.  That's just how it is.  But what about new cults that arise?  Those can be squelched and perhaps people can be stopped from falling victim to them.  Think about those people who died in the Heaven's Gate cult.  That was back in the 70's - 90's when there was no such thing as social media.  Imagine how many people they could snare now.  You don't have to imagine; just thing about how many Americans were convinced to join Islamic terrorist groups.  They were reached through social media.  There are predators out there who don't follow society's rules and we need some level of protection against them infecting the minds of the gullible.  Airhead is a good example.

Yeah, wouldn't want people to be stronger individuals on their own terms, better let the government take care of everything.