Posted: Aug 08, 2018 3:03 am
willhud9 wrote:
It very much is a free speech issue. The moment YouTube discusses hate speech they are making a statement that hate speech is bad.
Except this does nothing to actually fix or resolve any hate speech issues.
Coincidentally, when will YouTube also be removing President Trump's rally speeches from its website? Probably never.
The reality is this is a major PR stunt and nothing more. Google and Facebook are trying to save face as their stocks have dropped recently. They are appeasing the general public to appease shareholders, but let us be honest YouTube (Google) does not give a flying rats ass about hate speech. If they did they would be taking more proactive measures.
Instead I call this act of YouTube nothing more than irrelevant and nothing to be celebrated. Again Alex Jones did not lose a major audience from this act.
WTF? Weren't you, Willhud, just a couple of weeks ago defending Twitter being able to block speech when it came to blocking people from replying to Trump's tweets because they were a private company, even though that wasn't even the issue and instead it was an issue because Trump in his official capacity as president was doing so?