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Youtube's "Limited state" is now live.
Malleo100:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on August 27, 2017, 01:52:48 PM ---anita sarkeesian is probably my height
link please
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is this it?
McZealot:
lol I'm surprised they let it stay up at all. I don't support censorship at all but this is an awkward situation and if I was in charge of their economics department I would probably just take it down. I don't want handicaps associating the YouTube logo or seeing ads run on this video. not that I would support youtube taking that action--but it's certainly understandable.
this guy's accent is hilarious.
so hawhats the difference between black and hawhites. so hawhy would anyone think hawhites are as smart as every other race. not ONE african society had invented the hawheel.
St. Francis Xavier:
Google is so liberal it's toxic
SeventhSandwich:
The guy in the video is an outspoken white supremacist, and I'd probably kick him off my platform too if I ran a website like YouTube. You run a fine-line with content-hosting sites where if you let stuff run too wild, you end up like 4chan and LiveLeak and lose out on traffic from normal, ordinary people who haven't been desensitized to the raw evils of humankind.
But I don't think the 1984 comparisons are appropriate here. YouTube is not the government; it's a private organization that is choosing to block these videos on a purely ideological basis (as opposed to immutable characteristics like race, love, etc). Any discussion of 'freedom of speech' is irrelevant because we aren't dealing with a governmental entity. In the same way you are entitled to kick a national socialist out of your house party for being tribal, YouTube is allowed to un-list their videos.
Now, you guys can choose to boycott YouTube to protest this decision, but I don't think you should. Blocking national socialists from posting their videos on popular private content sites is the appropriate way to pressure them to quit their bullstuff. It's not punching them or using the government to restrict their speech - it's using the pure power of societal pressure and market economics to force them to be less awful. This is how the system is supposed to work.
otto-san:
might be misunderstanding what people are thinking here, it says it was put in this state because of "user reports," not because google hand-picked this video to censor. in that case it seems roughly identical, though maybe just slightly better than outright removing the video like they would have done previously if a video was flooded with flags
regardless, though it doesn't really matter, i can't say i feel any sympathy for this joker lol