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Even as lifelong card-carrying ACLU supporter I don’t see why they don’t just take down anything they damn well please.

They’re a private company and are entitled to have a curatorial viewpoint—and for my particular beliefs culling white suprematists and borderline pedophilic content is a Good Thing.

You’re entitled to say whatever you want in this country, but I’m not obligated to broadcast it for you.



I think the problem is that they censor views they don't like that aren't breaking any laws, which makes them a PUBLISHER but then they claim they need protections only offered to OPEN PLATFORMS.

They've often claimed in court to be an open / neutral platform, because that comes with legal protections against what your users post - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook-...

Publishers (like Forbes when people blog on there) on the other hand are responsible for their user posts. I think Facebook / Youtube is more like the Forbe here, so they should be treated legally as a publisher.


I cannot find any mention of youtube in the link, it seems to be about facebook.


> I don’t see why they don’t just take down anything they damn well please.

Its because Youtube would rather be legally categorized as a service rather than as a publisher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...




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