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That is such a perfect example of ingroup bias in action.

You can label these materials as censorable because you, likely not a follower of islam, believe that material from islamic uploaders talking about a revolution and indoctrination do not belong on your platform.

yet here we are, with thousands of christian, america-first indoctrination videos, calling for an uprising against everything from vaccines to elections. IT IS THE SAME THING.

you do realize this is a "are we the baddies?" situation, no?




The problem is that YouTube explicitly promotes "credible and authoritative" news sources, but these are the same sources that tell you:

Case 1: Leaked Podesta emails and CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDLcvOB1og

"It's illegal to possess these stolen documents. It's different for the media. So everything you're learning about this, you're learning from us."

Learning from us, get that?

Numerous legal scholars weighed in on that hot take, just one of the examples.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/law-prof-smacks-down-cn...

Case 2: Washington Post calls ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi "austere religious scholar"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/washington-post-headline-abu-...

So here we are, being told by YouTube that sources calling the leader of the world's most vile and brutal organization an "austere religious scholar" and deliberately misinforming public about what they can and cannot read are called "credible and authoritative sources".

When your supposedly single reliable source of truth (the media) is so obviously and shamelessly biased, how can you not question the source of "truth" and those who suppress other viewpoints?

I'm reminded of a seemingly prescient quote from 1999's Alpha Centauri:

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/2347

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.

The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"


You should have picked better examples like the censorship of the photos of inside the detention centre used to keep the now-orphaned kids that the US split from their parents at the Mexico border and now can’t find the parents.

Or the US involvement in civilian deaths in Yemen.

Your examples both got proper smack downs. My examples are still censored - you or i have never seen pictures of the conditions the kids are stored in (and if you think you have, double check its authenticity). Would be reporters for the Yemen are suppressed well before there’s any risk of them deciding to just skip mainstream media and post online instead. End result is an information vacuum and we can’t have an informed discussion because neither you nor i knows what’s actually happening.


I’d happily scrap that lot too to be fair.

It’s a private company platform, if you don’t like my policies go start another facebook or whatever.




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