Considering you immediately moved to relating him to a “nutcase”, it sounds more like you’re fine with it because you agree with who they’re censoring, and not the actual ethics of allowing a platform with 75% market share censor people for legal content.[0]
The cries of “private platform” only go so far when you’re an effective monopoly on the space. Especially when you opaquely censor legal content, while keeping millions of illegal videos up with ads.
And to reiterate, the issue is blatant: defending an effective monopoly like YouTube, who has such a tight stranglehold on information, is incredibly dangerous. Even if you don’t disagree with them now, authoritarians rarely stop finding people to target.
> it sounds more like you’re fine with it because you agree with who they’re censoring...
Yes, I agree that harmful pseudoscience should not have any room in the mainstream. That is essentially what I suggested on the last sentence in my original comment.
> The cries of “private platform” only go so far when you’re an effective monopoly on the space.
YouTube is not a monopoly. A monopoly is not established when something is too popular, otherwise any dominant technology company would effectively be a monopoly, e.g. would Twitter be a monopoly in the microblogging space? Was Tesla a monopoly on EVs?
Being more popular than anyone else does not make them a monopoly.
It would be trivial for this guy to find another space, as he did when he published his BS on Twitter. Even more, it is trivial to open a website and spout all the pseudoscience there. He is playing the victim because it plays great among his followers.
I will worry about this when authoritative information about important topics gets removed from all platforms at the whim of one or two companies, buying and bullying a hundred others.
Lastly, that hypothetical 75% market share does not account for Facebook Video or TikTok. TikTok has ~90 million monthly active users, compared to ~230 million of YouTube, that alone invalidates the claim.
> > it sounds more like you’re fine with it because you agree with who they’re censoring...
> Yes…
Well, at least you’re honest about supporting censorship of the “right” people.
> I will worry about this when authoritative information about important topics gets removed from all platforms at the whim of one or two companies
By then it’d already be too late. Though again I doubt you’d care even as long as the “right” people disappeared from your view. You don’t seem particularly worried about authoritarianism as long as the content you’ve been told is “harmful” has been “reviewed” and summarily removed.
> Well, at least you’re honest about supporting censorship of the “right” people.
I support that a media company is not forced to host content that is deemed against their ToS, especially when there are a myriad of publishers and alternatives out there.
Is that censorship? Has this guy been silenced? He is still in YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, plus he is given air time in places like FOX news. Him complaining about censorship is akin to a billionaire crying about the cost of living.
If we would consider this as "censorship", is porn being "censored" in YouTube? Is nazi content? And if so, should we force YouTube to host such things?
Either way, the naive libertarian notion that everything should be allowed unless it harms others, does not fit here either, for a myriad of reasons, starting with the fact that "harm" is poorly defined, and there is a case to be made about this guy being actively harmful to society as a whole. But again, that is too big of an idea to fit in the libertarian framework.
The cries of “private platform” only go so far when you’re an effective monopoly on the space. Especially when you opaquely censor legal content, while keeping millions of illegal videos up with ads.
And to reiterate, the issue is blatant: defending an effective monopoly like YouTube, who has such a tight stranglehold on information, is incredibly dangerous. Even if you don’t disagree with them now, authoritarians rarely stop finding people to target.
https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/online-video--12/youtu...