Comment by lesuorac
5 months ago
2 years is a pretty long ban for a not even illegal conduct.
Although if they got banned during the start of covid during the Trump administration then we're talking about 5 years.
5 months ago
2 years is a pretty long ban for a not even illegal conduct.
Although if they got banned during the start of covid during the Trump administration then we're talking about 5 years.
No one owes them any distribution at all.
Absolutely. Especially when those election deniers become insurrectionists.
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that is a two-way street
They went against a government narrative. This wasn't Google/Youtube banning so much as government ordering private companies to do so.
> wasn't Google/Youtube banning so much as government ordering private companies to do so
No, it was not. It’s particularly silly to suggest this when we have live example of such orders right now.
The companies were nudged. (And they were wrong to respond to public pressure.) The President, after all, has a “bully pulpit.” But there were no orders, no credibly threats and plenty of companies didn’t deplatform these folks.
That's what I told my MAGA friends. Biden recommended stuff, Trump threatens stuff. So far only one of them has followed through with action. Trump has threatened business deals and prosecution, and is currently sending government after his opponents with the DoJ. Yet those same people are as quiet as mice now on "government bullying"
They literally had access to JIRA at Twitter so they could file tickets against accounts.
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Zuckerberg mentioned meta were getting government employees that were calling Facebook absolutely furious, and when they didn’t take down legal speech administration did not approve of, there was an immediate investigation launched into Meta that he considers retaliatory.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-platforms-mark-zuckerberg-bi...
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kDr0LcmqOHOz3mBHMdDuV?si=j...
That was certainly the case with Twitter. It came out during the congressional hearings. FBI had a direct line to the decision makers.
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And do you think the impetuous behind this action happening now is any different? In both cases YouTube is just doing what the government wants.
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