YouTube bans Alex Jones

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Aug 6, 2018.

  1. Cuddles

    Cuddles

  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Youtube is a private company, and should be able to do ban whomever they please, for whatever they please. However, this doesn't exactly help the narrative that social media isn't actively censoring one side of the political aisle.
     
  3. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

  4. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    You consider Alex Jones to be a legitmate political commentator?
     
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  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    No, I do not. But there are many others that I do not consider legitimate political commentators that escape censorship by the same platforms.
     
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  6. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    And he was one for too long as he spread mistruths.
     
  7. elderado

    elderado

    So, the Armenian Genocide never happened?
     
  8. LS1Z28

    LS1Z28

    I agree with this. But it's interesting how it's a freedom of speech issue when the president wants to block someone on a social media platform, but it isn't a freedom of speech issue whenever a social media platform chooses to ban someone because they disagree with their content. It seems like a pretty blatant double standard.
     
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  9. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Who claimed that?
     
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    The president is a government body, hence the Twitter non-nos
     
    #10     Aug 6, 2018
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