Googles Censorship of Wrong Think

[Big A]

So if you haven't heard or just didn't know Google, the owners of YouTube, have recently decided that videos they don't like will not be monetized. Any content creators that offer opinions or commentary questioning the leftists ideals of social justice espoused by Google are being blacklisted and hidden from view unless you're subscribed to those particular creators.




Thoughts?

[Big A]

[Outlander Systems]

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[KTR03]

Not Aiming this at the OP. We often champion individual rights and the right not to be forced to do something we disagree with. I love how people expect companies to allow them to post whatever they want, for free, on their service. It is Google's right to decide how they want to run YouTube and what content they will allow or not allow. There is no "freedom of speech" or 1rst A right to go on someone else's product and say whatever you want to say. That is like saying to a book store "you must carry my book. Not only that, you must put it in the history section with the cover facing out". Google has the right to exercise editorial judgement or even censorship on their own products.

Companies should not be required to host content that they don't want to. Its called freedom.

[Big A]

Not Aiming this at the OP. We often champion individual rights and the right not to be forced to do something we disagree with. I love how people expect companies to allow them to post whatever they want, for free, on their service. It is Google's right to decide how they want to run YouTube and what content they will allow or not allow. There is no "freedom of speech" or 1rst A right to go on someone else's product and say whatever you want to say. That is like saying to a book store "you must carry my book. Not only that, you must put it in the history section with the cover facing out". Google has the right to exercise editorial judgement or even censorship on their own products.

Companies should not be required to host content that they don't want to. Its called freedom.

Hard to call it freedom when a Monopoly controls the methods of dissemination of ideas.

[SteyrAUG]

Hard to call it freedom when a Monopoly controls the methods of dissemination of ideas.

Find an alternate video host or start one. I don't bitch about the local paper refusing to run my letters to the editor.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

So much wrong in your post.

So the government - (the US one? The EU? CHina?) should be able to make a business incur costs to itself, to provide a platform for speech with which it doesn't agree, to an audience it doesn't want? You are open for business, you take who comes through the door. That is the standard now. And by doing so damage its own brand with customers that it does want. Really? So much for small government, conservative, pro freedom, pro market ideas. It's been decades since we had this. Your argument stopped being valid when smoking was banned in resturants. There is nothing that prevents other companies from launching streaming video services that can cater to whatever they want to cater to. It is a free service. It is governed by a terms of use that users agree to (whether they read it or not). Their dungeon, their rules. Do you participate in the US economy? Who, where, how doesn't the govt dictate anymore.

Question: How big does a company have to be, in terms of marketshare, market cap, or influence, before it surrenders its own property rights, IP rights, and business interests to some government functionary? Down to the smallest corner bakery.Should they have to put up a PETA video for every hunting video that is offered? Straw man. Who said anything about parity? You have a hosting site if someone posts something legal, that is the way it is.

You have ideals that are no longer valid and are not how business and the economy works. I may not like it, it may not be right, but it is. If you want to run file sharing service open to everyone, but then restrict certain political views, get in line and start dealing with the FEC about campaign and in kind donation issues.

This is a good time for Twitch (owned by Amazon). To start luring content creators away basically due the opposite of what YouTube/Google is doing.

Owned by the guy running the WashPost. I'm not putting my eggs in that basket.

Find an alternate video host or start one. I don't bitch about the local paper refusing to run my letters to the editor.

Do they post everyone's and not yours? False equivalency.

Interesting that the left is all in for net neutrality, except when it comes to content.

[kerplode]

Companies should not be required to host content that they don't want to. Its called freedom.

What are you going to do when only progressive ideals are deemed inoffensive and everything else is removed...Create your own internet?

[Outlander Systems]

You make jokes...

...Create your own internet?

[Doc Safari]

I'm not trying to hijack, but everywhere you look the left is making inroads into venues where they can stifle any opposing views. Just look at Fox News. Not that I was a big fan of Fox, but it was the only mainstream news network that was at least friendly to conservatives. Poor Sean Hannity must feel like the last Allied soldier left on the beach at Dunkirk.

Even in our local market, the one AM radio station within 50 miles that played conservative talk radio has been bought out by rumored liberals that in about three weeks will change the radio station's format to Spanish. No more Rush. No more Hannity. No more Savage.

Add to that the attempts to shut up Drudge and other internet sources, and you see a pattern emerging where the left has decided that if they can't win in the forum of public opinion, well then they will just stifle that forum.